Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Post #3

I am a big music fanatic. I keep mu music in my computer and i have an exact copy of my music on my phone. The way i have my music "organized" its... well i do not have a particular way of organization. I keep all my music in one folder and every song is label Artist - song name. I have no albums, no genre, no artist, no nothing else. The reason why i keep my music like that its because it makes it easy for me to find. I just type the artist name on my search and it automatically pops out. Besides, i am pretty good at memorizing the names of the songs i listen to. Most of my music is Rock en Espanol, but i do have a good mix of other genre from classic rock, to hip hop, to reggae, to electronica. I also have music that fit in one that more genre and thats exactly why i keep my music the way i do.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Blog #2

in the first two chapters of Everything is Miscellaneous- the power of the new digital disorder, Weinberger explains different ways of thinking about "order" or the way things are organized. In the prologue, Weinberger explained how Staples organized its merchandise in the store. They use only 3 tags for each product because they believed that the human eye with a good 20/20 vision could scan through a price tag quickly through it. If you made them with 5 tags, then it was too much information for an eye to catch. This made me think on how physical things are catalogued in a store Vs. digital things are tagged in cyberspace. Staples tagged its product they way they think its going to be easier for customers to find in the store, but it does not take in consideration that people could think differently about products.

On Chapter 1, Weinberger stated that "everything has its place". He gives us the clever example of preparing diner and the "complex dance of order" we perform in order to complete the simple task of eating. It made me laugh but he is right, we juggle multiple principles of organization without even thinking about it (Weinberger 11) and we are so used to organize things that it just come natural to us. What this makes me think of is how there is a generational gap on the way we organize things. As a person who grew up with more technology than my parents, it takes me no time to find anything in the internet. But if my mom tries to find something online, it takes her decades to find. It comes natural to me to find something in the internet because I am familiar with the way things run on cyberspace. My mom on the other hand, she tries to find things online like if they are physical things in a shelf.

On chapter 2, Weinberger talks about one of the most common ways people organize things: Alphabetization. Even though is such a common way to organize, there are not too many things that are organized like that. Peoples files in a doctors office? Large video game or movie collection? students in a class? all of these have to do with names. Alphabetization only works with letters, and its conceptually confusing because space, time and atoms are forms of information that are not complete (Weinberger 27).

My favorite quote of the reading:
The world started out miscellaneous but it didn't stay that way, because we work so damn hard at straightening it up (Weinberger 10).









Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Web 2.0: the first 5 years and the future.

The internet is a relatively young technology that has been growing a lot during the 90 and 2000's. Part of the reason the internet is growing so much is the way people access the internet. People are now able to access the web from smart phones, from iPads, from gaming consoles, etc. Web 2.0 five years on Its about precisely that: the fact that the web's grow has not limit and that the applications available online are the main tools people use. From search engines, to video browsers, to picture finders, to maps; everything has become indispensable for internet users.

The application I like the most is video applications like Youtube and netflix. Youtube enables me to find videos from topics that interest me. It serves as a resource for pop culture videos, educational videos, online activism or just pure waste of time. I discovered Netflix during winter 2010 when i spend time in a house with no TV. I used netflix to watch shows and movies online for very cheap.

Monday, January 17, 2011

DTC 356

From now until i say otherwise, i will blog about my DTC356 class. Enjoy