Long time

It has been a year since I took this class and 4 months since I graduated from SJSU, and the more I entered the pros’ world, the more I find out how much this class transformed my career.

 I wished I could have taken the class as a pro, but as a “Virgin Amateur,” the class gave me the tools, now time has showed me how to apply them in the so-called “real world,” which is not that real.

 Thanks Steve, prof. McCune for your help. I will always remember how you guys really introduced me to the computers’ world.

 - Carlos

Under the Boardwalk

Summer is here, and it’s time once again, to visit my old haunts - the ones that made childhood memorable and that keep me grounded.

Final

Just because its buried several days back, here is my rss url again http://feeds.feedburner.com/therealgreek.

Thats all.

My final project

This is Rokelle and here is my final Vlog URL

My Final!!!

This is the url to my podcast http://feeds.feedburner.com/ayamekatosblog

FINAL: Here’s my feed!!!

Enjoy!!!

My final feed

Here is the url for my final feed burner

My blog is here

Naked Conversations is now clothed… i mean closed.

So the final chapters of Naked Conversations was very interesting because it pointed out a lot of things that have already happened, and also how much stuff has changed.  In ch. 14, it was interesting to read about how much the internet and technology in general has grown over the years.  You don’t really tend to realize how much it has changed unless you really think about it - how when the net first started, you searched, and got back relevant and irrelevant content jumbled together, then you got back mostly relevant content, and now, you get back relevant content and you have to compete for that top spot in the search.  It was also interesting how much RSS has changed since the book was published.  How, when the book was being written, RSS feeds went to your email, and that was the most convenient and common way, and now you can have special aggrigators, and even pages such as Google where you can organize your own RSS feeds.  They even referred to older versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer (by today’s standards) as the next generation of web browsers.  This statement alone shows how quickly technology is changing - almost monthly now instead of yearly.  I also liked in the final chapters how they discussed items essential to blogging such as tagging and Technorati, and also I liked Scoble’s Weblog Manifesto.

My final presentation feed

Here is the URL for my final presentation feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/therealgreek

My blogger blog can be found here.

Blog or Die part 4 and 5 (up to 232)

In the first part I like the part “When bad blogs turn good,” it reminds me of this girl mentioned in We the Media by Dan Gillmor that created a blog while she was supposedly dying of cancer but eventually the whole thing turned out to be a hoax. It also proved that nowadays citizens journalists are as good at investigating as journalists. The authors also mentioned the issue of anonymity: How can you have have a real conversation with a character that does not actually exist, or one who might be real but hides his perspective in a cloak of anonymity?
The second part deals with the aspect of subscription and of course not surprisingly rss comes into the discussion. Basically you do not have to go and look for information but it comes to you if you subscribed to receive it. Now rss is not limited to blogs but almost all online media have adopted it so in brief you don’t have to look, the information you want, need comes fromt the sites that you usually like to visit.