Networked Media Production Week 9

This week Michael talked about how various sources (especially on the internet) can retrieve information about specific events and viewed by users before being released by the media. Now, the internet can provide more information one would need/want to acquire rather than purchase books at a book store, read the newspaper or watch TV etc. Data created by people from around the world, collected and harnessed by various users - Wikipedia is the first place people look to gain basic knowledge on a topic they're interested in, anyone can contribute to articles, information gathered and expressed by many sources and put into the one article. Michael also talked about how people can get information about recent events from Twitter before seeing it on television.

Information can be retrieved and provided in a variety of forms. In the lecture Michael also talked about AJAX, to make web applications more dynamic. - Flickr, Google Trends, Google Maps etc. This site talks about Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and offers techniques to help improve web applications - http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/AJAX/

Web 2.0 is also affiliated with web applications, e.g. Tag clouds - key words that link directly to other sources of information which is a technique used to primarily foster collective intelligence on the web. Tim O'Reilly defines Web 2.0 in his article - http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html - it includes tables that compare applications from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, simple directories on the internet (taxonomy) evolving into tags (folksonomy) being one of the comparisons.

And that's my blog for this week.