No Google, No Wiki...eeek

okay so here goes, a series of answers to a series of questions... without the helping hand of Google. (I feel like a traitor to my beloved Google, yet feel somewhat charitable to underdog Yahoo).
1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus? Onel de Guzman
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html

2. Who invented the paper clip? Johan Vaaler
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpaperclip.htm

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name? "The virus gets its name from a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it was first recognized."
http://ebola.emedtv.com/ebola-virus/from-what-place-did-the-ebola-virus-get-its-name.html

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake? Southern Chile
http://www.seismo-watch.com/EQSERVICES/NotableEQ/May/0522.Chile.html

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte? 20
http://kb.iu.edu/data/ackw.html and http://www.math.com/students/calculators/source/basic.htm

6. Who is the creator of email? Ray Tomlinson
http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm

7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it? The Storm Botnet is a distributed computer network consisting of computers remotely controlled without their owner's knowledge. Up to 5 million infected.
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/storm.html and http://antivirus.about.com/od/virusdescriptions/a/stormworm.htm

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly,
what is the most efficient way? Call Kevin Rudd - Phone (02) 6277 7700
http://www.directory.gov.au/osearch.php?ou%3DPrime%20Minister%2Cou%3DMinisters%2Co%3DPrime%20Minister%20and%20Cabinet%2Co%3DPortfolios%2Co%3DCommonwealth%20of%20Australia%2Cc%3DAU&changebase

9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School
of Arts) a member of? The Black Assassins
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~toxicoh/blackas.htm

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words? I see 'web 2.0' as a term that refers to the second generation of the world wide web. It is more focussed on enabling online communities and consumer generated content. In addition, improved applications support information sharing and site features have moved away from static pages to far more engaging and dynamic formats; eg. flash.
www.zoesmind.com.au

wow, kind of difficult, but still achievable. Lucky for me Yahoo refuses to throw in the towel.

Marketing, Gen Y...INTERNET

It seems that 56% of Gen Y's prefer to be marketed to via the internet... it is said to be indispensable. Well Dah!

http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/18825.asp

The Blogging Split

So who pokes around on these things anyway. A PEW study found the following:

- how i ENGAGE -

New communication technology and me...
The way in which i see myself interacting with new comm tech is, for the most part, a convenience tool for staying connected.

Using applications such as messenger, myspace, facebook, email and flickr allow me to stay in the 'loop' more easily. Once upon a time the way i viewed communicating with friends was through a landline...this then changed to mobile and now has expanded to the world wide web.

I LOVE IT!!

Perhaps i am just another sucker of the net generation. But quite frankly, i don't care. I use each of these sites ALOT for social purposes, work and family.

Predominantly I would say my consumption is socially based. I find the greatest advantage of it to be that you can show friends you still care about them and what they're up to even when you don't have the time to catch up in person. It seems that lately our lives are becoming more and more busy!!! After all we did just beat out America in having one of the worst work and life balances in the world. (not actually happy about winning this title, the future is beginning to look bleak).

hmm well that's my thoughts on new comm tech for the momento.

Online destinations, five categories...

Where do Facebook and Myspace fit in.... it would seem that they only fit in the nooks, crannies and crevises. Online destinations can be broken up into five paramount categories: search, content, commerce, communication and community.

'42.7% of consumer time online is spent with content sites, 28.6% is with communication sites, 16.1% with commerce sites and 5% on search sites.'
(Nielsen Online Data, AdAge)

- ONLY 7.5% OF THEIR TIME IS SPENT ON COMMUNITY SITES -

http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=125623

is email D E A D...

For the moment - No, it most certainly is not. Email is alive and kicking in every single one of us... so it would seem.

A survey taken in both the tute and within the griffith portal has come back with results that enforce the prominent role of email in each of our day to day lives. Though, it may stand to reason to argue that the results are quite biased in that the participants of the survey are tech savvy youths with an interest in media + technology, they can still be drawn upon to some extent.

On a likert scale of "How dead is email?" Not one respondent said that they don't use it.
67% remarked that it has it's place whilst 13% believe it to be God. In not having any religious ties myself, I would have to agree with the 13% and at last have found a worthy contender to regard as my own 'God'.... this leaves me wondering if I could also refer to my inbox as a church.

I have to say, if that were to be the case, i'm much more of a devotee religious fanatic than the other slackas who only attend their place of worship on any given Sunday!!

All metaphors aside, am I really right to assume that my 'God' will remain static. What if email were to die... (I feel like a traitor to even utter a thought of disbelief in the survival of the almighty power that be). Would I, an avid media consumer be willing to forgo my current God if it were to be replaced by a 'new media' being.

Well......yes of course I would be. I'm a Gen Y you fools. I will not only adapt, but embrace anything that new media wishes to throw at me.

For now email is a tool that I believe makes my life easier. Like my fellow 74.7% of survey monkeyers, I feel that technology eases and converges the sometimes loose seams that formulate my life. It brings together my work, home, education, banking, social, travel, shopping, research, transport and endless topical enquiries into one big fat church which i can, at my leisure, sort into neat little rows and pews complete with crosses and holier than thy water.

But! When an even bigger and better church is built next door with extra features for the average church goer, I will be more than willing to praise accordingly.

Oh and be on the look out for this neat little product - www.sabersurvey.com ......coming soon!!
(I'm told the analytical graphs are much prettier than that of it's rivals).

Defining a 'Network'

so, what is a network?

I, Zoe Michelle would define it as a group of people collaborating, interacting and sharing with one another in a common place. It's a collection of people actively participating in 'something', more often than not, in a social way.

When it comes to online networking, the examples listed below span across many genres:

• IM / MSN / Adium
• Myspace / Facebook
• Mobile Phones
• Forums / Message Boards / Yahoo groups
• Online games (mmogs, consoles, Xbox live)
• Blogs....well what do you know, here i am
• Dating websites
• Wikipedia
• Ebay
• File sharring /p2p
• Youtube
• Emails
• Flickr / photobucket / photo sharring
• Secondlife
  
• Job search... erm not as social but, commonplace people all the same.
  

The most publicly expounded of which are currently seen to be Myspace and Facebook. (I believe Facebook will fight to the death on this one).

Although the target demographic of each differs, these social networks achieve much the same thing. They provide a place for users to interact and share with others. Their appeal to users lies in the social aspect they offer... yet is also seen as a tool to exploit oneself. Whether it be to a private network of friends or to the wider public.

The Gen Y appeal of self exploitation sees no bounds on Myspace and Facebook. This genre of networks in particular caters to a variety of needs across all groups of people within society. However the perception of those in society, the users, (the term users in itself draws connotations of drug abuse and addiction...indeed it can become) is that it allows us to break away from perhaps stereotyped social group and to evolve into an 'INDIVIDUAL'.

Well so us Gen Y's like to believe.

May the Blogging Begin...

so it begins huh!