tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27680134318989066322011-11-28T09:56:33.046+10:302009: I'm doing a BA Internet Communications through Curtin University and one of the requirements of my study is to create a blog like this to record my coursework. 2011: I now know everything :) This is my journal.cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049734826228270929noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2768013431898906632.post-65972042822912713352009-06-04T00:03:00.001+09:302009-06-04T01:48:55.979+09:30

I'm wrapping up...I have enjoyed this unit. It's been an interesting and inspiring journey where I've been shown the path of self-directed study. I found an amusing semblance of order to my way of thinking when I noticed that a concept exists for nearly everything we do on the Internet. I'm not being a fanatic acting like the netiquette police because there is a concept to back me up now! Look

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A new perspective of the Internet - Information Ecology!The 'information ecology' can be compared to the natural environment in that a relationship with mutual benefit exists between technology and the user, much like a symbiotic process. I must admit to liking the description 'information ecology' in terms of the Internet and the Web. It does not support technology or social determinism but

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http://www-usr.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/index.html Article index page "The Psychology of Cyberspace" Various articles by John Suder (various dates), Rider University, NJ.The articles listed are all written by John Suler, Ph.D. although he does advise other authors may be included and identified. Suler's pages are situated on the Rider University, NJ domain. Suler is a Clinical Psychologist

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Search for something...I decided to start off with a broad keyword phrase to see what would come up before using filtering parameters. My words were internet communication theory 2009. My intention was to find academic papers on internet communication theory written in 2009 so I used Google.com as I didn't need to find localised (google.com.au) results at all.Total search results were 2,800,000

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This is probably a good a time to begin familiarising myself with a few key productivity tools that will really help with my future studies. In particular I'm interested in categorising and filing URLs and clipping parts or all of a webpage. I want to be able to 'tag' my bookmarks for searching and it would be ideal to have all of this information residing on my desktop as well as online or 'in

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#8 Invisibility of Difference“…is shaped by over-familiarity with one’s own computer system, and a tendency to assume that – as with much more established forms of communication – everyone is operating within compatible and similar systems.” (Allen, n.d.)The invisibility of difference is a concept that affects everyone online, it is not entirely an individual user issue, but one that also

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There are several differences between Furl and the HTML Text Listing. Not all of the differences are obvious until you decide to do something with the information.The Text version loads nice and quick and the list contains enough information for me to know what I will read about when I click the links but... why isn't it sorted alphabetically? The list could do with some basic or broad categories

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Although I've never had a blog before this one, I have nothing but positive feelings about what a it means to be a blogger.I have yet to think of a reason to write my own blog apart from this one but that doesn't prevent me from appreciating the good things that arise from blogging.If you look at what was available before user-friendly blogs came along, it's no surprise that there are billions of

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My URL is on a Curtin University server so it's not viewable for everyone:http://student.curtin.edu.au/~14399200/I chose to use the student web space because I am quite comfortable using the Unix/Windows webserver path to uploading websites. I had no idea this choice was going to challenge my every urge to bail and simply blog about it. Well I am not one to give up so easily so I used what is

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OMG I had to double check that the cartoon image I used on my Email Metadata~ology page didn't breach any copyright. Phew I found the evidence I needed, it's ok to embed the cartoon in a web page as long as the code is left unchanged. I remember feeling confident about it being ok but having to scrutinise my image use just now made me anxious about missing details somewhere. I really like the

cjhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03049734826228270929noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2768013431898906632.post-9192708848912665372009-05-02T23:24:00.017+09:302009-06-01T00:12:35.991+09:30

Quite often when I search for specific stuff, I come across some cruddy websites but the content was almost always spot on for my needs. That tells me that the author made a site that performs what it is 'designed' to do and not what it is perceived to be - perhaps the site was not intentionally 'designed' but hey I'm happy lucky down with it.My thoughts on three 'web writing' resources...

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I resisted all tempatation to open up my program HTMLPad and 'hand on heart' I did not use it. Instead I fell back to searching online and mostly for some pretty basic HTML commands... which got me thinking about what I thought I knew. More on that further down.Here is a screenshot of the page I did:When I first began learning HTML it gave me a great sense of achievement and creativity. It felt

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Given many options for chatting to fellow students online, I wanted to try the virtual world ones as I'd heard so much about them. Time to dress up and get a life!Unfortunately I didn’t like SL (Second Life) because it gave me untold grief after set up. My PC was not powerful enough and everything was jerky and slow, I didn’t feel like I needed the hassle. Looking at the system requirements for

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What are the pros and cons of email lists versus discussion boards?Hmmm, where do I end. I looked mainly at Yahoo Groups, Topica, Google Groups and a great one I just found today was at www.meetup.comEmail Lists about various topics are covered quite well however it can be difficult and time consuming to find what you are looking for.Pros: Lists are focused and on topic, rarely would members be

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What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose? + How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why?If you email a lot then expect it back in droves too. Filtering incoming email is a handy way of keeping a semblance of order in your Inbox. I rely on it because it automatically moves email from certain people into their own Folder and keeps it marked as

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In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver?It’s good to ask a couple of questions and consider some options before attaching anything to your email. The following list is pretty much what goes through my mind...What do I want to send? Is it a Word doc, pdf, image, video etc?Would the recipient have the software or system to open the attachment?

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In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all functions of email?For people on slow internet connections or with minimal bandwidth quotas it’s a definite plus to be able to send one message to more than one person at the same time. I use CC when I want to show the main recipient that my message has been copied/sent to other people they may or may not know. My

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What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message?Cartoons by AndertoonsWithout looking at any expanded Header information I can see quite a lot of information about the users email.Name of the sender – this could be either the senders name or a business name. It could also be any text the sender chooses.Date and time the

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My attempt at using Traceroute from centralops.net to curtin.edu.au went well and after doing this task it gave me cause to ask a question but more on that (and Biff) in a minute...The chart below shows the number of hops from centralops.net to curtin.edu.au was 19 and the average time for the packet journey was 235ms. The IP number for curtin.edu.au is 134.7.179.56You know after all of this

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I use ftp quite a lot to transfer files so I decided to try 3 methods of using ftp including Filezilla to note any differences in completing this task as well as finding the missing word “insert missing word here MATTERS”.Using my regular program AceFTP compared to the recommended Filezilla program was not too foreign for me to do. I prefer using AceFTP because it is familiar but it seems to me

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I haven’t played with Telnet for many years and can’t remember much about it. Still I am excited to take another look.I typed in a question mark to find out what the commands were and that worked! Lucky guess, but I reminded myself not to apply my guessing manoeuvres too often too quickly (edit: at all).Telnet is really quite easy to use, it didn’t look too foreign for me and I was surprised and

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To answer the question posed by my tutors at Curtin... my "Top 5 Tips for New Bloggers" focus on the common questions that beginners have asked or at least should have asked. There is much written about how to find and choose a blog host and what to do to get a bigger following (audience) but I found little mention in a quick Google search about the reasons people would want to start a blog and

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This is going to be fun and no doubt an education too.Aaah my first real blog... Questions have cropped up all of a sudden, thoughts that I had not considered before such as, why did I not start a real blog before today? Why didn't I do it? Perhaps I never had a good enough reason to begin writing a blog. I don't have all that much spare time so to start a blog like this means... I have a good

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