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Reading assignments, reflection papers, and other exercises, assigned as homework.
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 …
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For the blog organization assignment I first decided to give it a name that is the same as the class, this way the reader is able to understand why I am talking about the subject. Secondly I devided the blog entries into two categories: one is classwork and another is homework, one is meant to …
Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger In the mess left by the department store sales (first order mess) and incompatibility of the patients records (second order mess) we "feel better" when they are fixed up to the original state …
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Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger A very easy to read chapter, unlike the previous, perhaps because it talks about the ones and zeros of our basic mentality. We read signs and if they are not simple enough we …
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. …
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. …
This chapter begins from the history of the UPC. The need to organize the products under one system, one bar code shows how we as humans operate in this world. This chapter nicely touches up on the organization by comparing the two orders with one another, exposing the nature of the rigid vs. faceted structure. …
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 …
"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, …
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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 …
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