5.1 Boom Boom Boom.

Another Blog.

Oh aren't we excited =D

I actually am, coz I just realised I have a format on my laptop that allows me to write blogs & publish them in Microsoft so I don't have to upload images & blah blah blah.

Back to the point – week 5 lecture, really not sure what it's about to be quite honest with you.

I'm thinking its looking all conspiracy theory like at how the internet is overrun by crap & its clogging the system. The lecturer – Jason Nelson – kinda reminds me of one of someone who would know where Michael Jackson and Elvis are, or he thinks he does... but in a good way.

Sidetracked again, so he showed us different websites full of totally random, yet oddly addictive stuff.

And explained it in order, so I'll copy.

Boom Boom Pow!

The Dot Com Boom.

When the internet was the be all and end all, the best thing since sliced bread, the bees knees, the.. you get the idea.

By looking at the wayback machine (sounds cool right?) we got to see how websites used to look. You'd type in a url – i.e myspace – and the wayback machine will show you how the web paged looked in certain years & how its evolved. (H-Ref 1)

Random "fun" games started popping up everywhere.

Wanna look after an ugly wanna be pokemon - DONE

Wanna design a dress for Barbie - DONE

Wanna watch people draw pictures- DONE

this magnificant work of art was created on Sketchcast. i know, there are no words right?

Some people think I'm bonkers.

The Dot Com Crash.

What goes up must come down, and the internet did, hard. It crashed and burned and smouldered for ages before having an angry mob stomp it out so they could tear it apart and eat its insides. Yes it got pretty bad for old internetty and who's to blame? Humans, naturally.

People pretty much went bonkers over the internet, trying to sell everything possible on it. Why not sell pet products (dog food) across the world for cheap cheap cheap, oh but then add on the shipping fees and the two week waiting period, sure Fido can wait that long...

What's yours is mine & what mine is mine.

The rise of the monopolies – no not little irons, buses and men in top hats taking over the world. I'm thinking it meant that some big companies decided to be top shiz and squash all the little fellas. Tragic.

This conveniently kinda links us on to social networking sites, in a if you tilt your head to the side and squint kinda way. Social networking sites, bet you're thinking Myspace, Facebook, Twitter? WRONG!

All those ones you thought had gone & died long long ago – bebo, hi5- there still alive (they will never die) and out there along with many other random ones – CafeMom , for mothers with 1,250,000 users, Ravelry, for knitting and crochet, 331,000 users and vampirefreaks – a gothic and industrial subculture, 1,931,049 users. (H-Ref 2)

Social networking is all well & good for stalking people… and that's pretty much it. Back in the day it was fun now it's all 14 year olds doing topless shots and annoying people doing stupid quizzes – no one cares which care bear you were in a previous life or what day you'll have your baby while being killed by a toaster.

We then looked at other websites full of useful thing (shakes head) and creative spaces and visualization of net traffic speeds.

So i checked out the Persona thingy like a good little chicken.

For those of you not in the loop. it basically tells you about every other person online with your name. *Awww moment*

Now i dunno whether to be proud or insulted but there was no digital traces of me. =[

It was super. No it actually was pretty cool. =D

I saw a UFO and nobody believed me.

We had to make our own google map about whatever took our fancy. My fancy? UFO's. Why? Coz I can.

Check it out;

Bibliography


View Australian Alien Abductions. in a larger map

H-Ref 1 – Wayback machine

http://www.archive.org/index.php

H-Ref 2 – Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites

Everything else – Class notes =D