Reading Response to: “The Work of Knowledge”

SHARED KNOWLEDGE. "Discussing differences while standing on a shared ground, we work towards understanding." Philosophers are lonely thinkers.  Through conversations things that we know are not "interesting to talk about." In a conversation our thoughts are released less edited, versus the philosopher's paper that is well thought through. "Paper drives thought into our head" while …

Reading Response to: “Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google”

Search engines becoming very important in our lives, our news, our education, and even politics are dependent upon the searchability of the subject we search for.  As Dewey's, rigid structure of categories has its flaws because once the ingredients are mixed, you can't go back and undo what you already mixed in to the bowl.  …

Reading Response to: “Social Knowing”

Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger In a first few paragraphs David Weinberger introduces a social royalty of the highly hierarchical order - the his/her majesty the Editor.  Ultimately editors decide what to put together and how to organize it.  …

Reading Response to: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”

creating a web search engine is not an easy task for an ever increasing growth of the web, however, with today's technologies, the technical part of improving its infrastructures is getting easier and cheaper.  The improvement of the search quality is the main goal here.  If I understand it correctly, the problem here is the …

Reading Response to: “Publish, Then Filter”

"Here Comes Everybody," Chapter 4 reflection: The chapter begins by saying that  "media landscape is transofrmed, because personal communication and publishing, previously separate functions" are now merging together.  The media landscape becomes more miscellaneous.  The problem is that bad filtering is mixed with good.  In other words, "bad" miscellany clogs up the internet. Peronal postings, …

Reading Response to: “Psychology Journal Articles”

Reflection on the readings. This chapter begins with talking about research and peer review process.  Psychologists prefer to use a quality research because it is done by peer review process, which is a careful and meticulous process of reviewing and contributing to the thought process on the works of professionals by other professionals in a …