Week Eleven Muddiest Thought

Why were some peoples week one reading notes and muddiest thoughts not counted and others were?

Reading Notes Twelve

Ok i dont know what the problem was this week but i spent more time trying to find the first article than it took me to read the other three articles. So if anybody reading this wants to give me a link so that i can read the blog article i would love that. I read through most of the reading notes of all the folks i follow and it looked like a pretty good article based on what everyone said about it. But i couldnt find it no matter how i googled it. If i get to read it before 3 on Friday i will amend this blog entry to reflect it.
The second article was about wikis and how they can be useful to libraries. It talked about how libraries can use wikis to create informational handouts and guides. It gave some brief info ion how to start your own wikia and also discussed the library program at ETSU. I found this cool since i used to live in Johnson City. The article expounded on how libraries can integrate infomation using wikis and futher improve the users experience.
The third article was about social tagging. I dont know that tagging is mandatory, but it seem to be generally helpful. We tagged our articles on citeulike and using that as a point of reference I can see how tagging can be used to help promote eduacation. By making tags for the articles, we can assist other people in finding our articles for educational needs.
Last we had to watch a video about wikipedia. Interesting that their goal is to get a copy of the online encyclopedia to everyone in the world...they may want to first consider how to get computers and Internet service to everyone if they want ot achieve that goal. I think it's very good for the main founding principal to be neutrality. Afterall an encyclopedia should be a source of unbiased information..if one wants to see opinionated articles they should subscribe to blogs and skip wikipedia. Wales does have some pretty cool software in place to keep an eye on things though.

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Week Ten Muddiest Thought

Will there ever be on service that catalogues all the information on the internet and becomes like Google times 100? Just wondering if it's possible to put all of the Internets information into one search engine? Kind of like a master list of all things online.

Readin Notes Eleven

This weeks first article on web crawling was a little interesting. It helped simplify somewhat, the complicated process of crawling. Without crawling we wouldnt have giants like Google or Yahoo. Also it explained spamming a little and I found it interesting that spammers send one version ot its content to search sites and entirely different content to the user. Im very much against Internet regulation, but that is just plain wrong. This in turn made me realize just how very valuable my anti-spam software is.
The second article was about the Open Archives Initiative and its attempt to improve metadata harvesting. This one was really hard to continue reading...it had good information in it but was covered up by way too much technical language. It also discussed the Digital Library Federation and if you can oversome the boredom this article offers some good insight an potential help for conducting independent research.
The last article focused on the Deep Web. Ok first off, i was blown away by the key findings expressed in the article about deep web. If those things are accurate, we have no real concept of how much information is available to us on the Internet. And fully 95% of that info is public and free! I was astounded! The section about how search engines work made it a little easier to grasp why Google misses so much information. Imagine the monster Google could truly become if they began to penetrate the deep web and not just continue scraping through the shallows of the surface web! This article was one of the best ones I've read this semester for this class. I enjoyed all the statistics and tables and was continually shocked as I realized that how much material was out there that most people have no clue exists. This article like the last one offers some great direction for accomplishing research.

Assignment Six: My Website

http://sites.google.com/site/assignment6nateswebsite/Home

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Week Nine Muddiest Thought

If I use an online webauthoring program will I be able to 'switch' it to the school website since it is already on the web or will I only be able to link the 2 together?

Reading Notes Ten

The first digital library article about the challenges faced by them was a little interesting and a little boring. The one thing that did strike me a bit was when it said that Google scholar is the biggest rival for campus and academic search systems. This came as no real surprise to me as I constantly use Google Scholar. The 2nd article, Dewey meets Turing, was a bit better of a read for me than the first one. This article seemed to go hand in hand with what we have been discussing in Understanding Information this semester. I agree with it that the way information is being delivered and created may be changing, but the fundamentals of librarianship remain the same. The 3rd article, Institutional Repositories, explains about institutional respositories and the changes from print to digital publication. This article also discusses how digital publication benefits institutions and expounds on the changes in schloarly communication. I found this article to be pretty informative and also goes along with topics we have been discussing in other classes this semester.

Assignment 5: Koha

http://pitt4.opacwc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?viewshelf=49

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Week Seven Muddiest Thought

I was just wondering, is it possible for the Internet to fill up? Will it one day reach a 'full-capacity' if outdated or redundant information isnt removed?

Reading Notes Eight

Even though I have virtually no interest in the material discussed I thought the w3schools article was very clear and concise especially if you wish to start learning html. But even if you dont want to learn to write it, the article explains it in easy to comprehend language. The second article html cheatsheet brought back nightmares to me of a visual basic class I took in community college. I hate this stuff!!! Then we have the css article by w3schools...more of the terror. Again it was written in easy to understand lingo but still equally as terrible. The Beyond HTML article was the only article out of the 4 that had real substance to it. It talked about Georgia State University Library and its attempt to build a CMS research guide. Although not exciting per se this article was informative.

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Week Six Muddiest Thought

Im al little confused, let's say for example I'm using a neighbors unsecured wireless internet. Do the websites that I visit recognize my IP address or the person who is actually paying for the wireless conection? By using someone elses wireless network does that make my IP address invisible or disguise it as the user who is actually paying for the internet connection?

Reading Notes Seven

The first article, How Stuff Works, seems to be an extension of sorts of the network articles we read last week They provided me with some general understanding of how the Internet works. I gained a greater understanding about routers, in fact that made the most sense to me in this article. I did find it interesting that each time someone logs on using dial-up they do so using a different IP address each time. Seems to me this would make online stalking or fraud much harder to detect this way. Perhaps I dont full understand though.
The other article, Dismantling Integrated Library Systems, contained some interesting information but you had to read between the lines of incessant complaining to glean anything from it. I know that integrated systems are very much needed in a time where we are shifting from print based information to electronic based systems. A way to make these systems compatible with one another is the only resolution and I can see why libraries are upset about having to come up with the money to pay for said systems. Afterall they didnt have any say so in the fact changing technology forced the creation of these types of systems.
I really liked the Google video. I thought the thing they showed of the world and all the searches going on was awesome. It shows how around the globe we all potentially have something in common and it shows what a monster Google has grown into. That picture of them on the ski trip was hilarious. I had Google desktop before we had to download it for this class and I love it. I use it CONSTANTLY!

Assignment 4: Jing Project URLs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186983@N07/2905302416/in/set-72157607636310644/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186983@N07/2905307406/in/set-72157607636310644/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186983@N07/2904463911/in/set-72157607636310644/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186983@N07/2904465853/in/set-72157607636310644/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186983@N07/2904467511/in/set-72157607636310644/

http://www.screencast.com/users/tolkienfan/folders/Jing/media/6d538f16-862c-48c7-871d-48bace7d571d

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Assignment 3: CiteULike Url

http://www.citeulike.org/user/tolkienfan

Reading Notes Six

Well the first wikipedia article on local area networks actually made decent sense to me for a change in comparison to some of our other readings. It made it a little easier to understand how computers comminucate with one another in small areas, and although it didnt specifically explain what a WAN was, I actually deduced on my own that it pertained to coverage over a huge area such as a city.
Then when I read the other wikipedia article on computer networks in general, I was pleased to find that I was right. I found all the different types of networks to be a little daunting simply because there are so many...LAN, CAN, WAN, GAN etc.. Then as the article progressed I began to get a little muddled on some things. Like what is Intranet really? Is it the internet but only shared among a few computers? If so what is the point of that? And even further into the article I got more confused, not really sure Im clear on how hubs, bridges, or switches work. But I think I got the general concept behind routers.
Last I watched the youtube video and was reassured that I had understood the majority of the info I read about the networks. One thing the guy said in the video that I forgot to mention when I made comments about the articles was what the heck is Ethernet? I know it was briefly covered, but I still dont get it!
I found the RFID article the most interesting by far. I think it's a great idea for libraries to look into. But I do think that privacy issues need to taken into consideration and also poses another finacial hurdle for libraries to have to get over. But that's the way the game is played, if libraries are going to stay competitive in the information profession, they have to bite the bullet and figure out how to keep up with technological advances.

Week Five Muddiest Thought

When we discussed digital video coding I was a little confused about interlaced scanning. I would like that explained in a little more depth. Is this how our TV and computer screens work?

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Reading Notes Five

Finally a topic that I knew something about and didnt have to struggle to read through! I have had a youtube account for a long time, so I found this article quite easy to read. Even enjoyable compared to some of the previous readings. I think the idea presented in the article about libraries capitalizing on youtube and reaching patrons through video technology is a good idea and worth being given more consideration by libraries and institutions of that kind.
The Imaging Pittsburgh Project was incredible! I thought this project was really cool and is wonderful to make these historic images available to the public. One note, it was a good thing we had just covered metadata, because I would'nt really have known what the heck that meant.
And then we get back to the rough stuff-data compression. For me this reading was the worst yet. I get the basic concept of what compression does and what it's for, but didnt understand the majority of what was in the article. Lossless versus lossy...perpetual coding...run length coding...I hope the lecture will shed some light on this stuff Tuesday.

Week Fours Muddiest Thought

When looking on the internet, where exactly would metadata be located? I think I understand what metadata is but just not where it's found.

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Assignment 2: Flickr Account Url

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30186983@N07/sets/72157607098774994/

Reading Notes Four

As far as the Wikipedia Database article is concerned, I think i vaguely understood the material being discussed. It's not that it was difficultly worded, I just think for some of this infomation I need enplanation/examples from the Prof. In the small section titled Relational Operations, it actually exemplified how a query is used to retrieve articles from Wikipedia and that helped me make a little more sense of how the structure of databases are built. Other than that I dont really know what to say about this topic except that I hope Dr. He gives somes visual examples or something next week to perhaps make things a bit clearer for me. Metadata. I had heard the word a few times before and thought that was just a fancy word for description. And after I read that it generally means data about data, I still thought it meant description. But as the artivle progressed I began to understand that metadata mat involve descriptions, it also reflects alot more than that. I found the tables in the middle of the article was what provided the real clarity I needed to grasp the concept of metadata. My conclusion about this article is quite basic in that metadata is extremely important. But I do wonder in a library setting where is metadata actually stored? It would seem to me that metadata goes well beyond cataloging, so where would one find access to this type of info about info?

Week Threes Muddiest Thought

We discussed Mozilla being an open source program in class. I was wondering, since you can make changes to the browser, do those changes affect only your browser or do they apply to every person using that version of Mozilla?

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Reading Notes Three

I have been a pc/windows user all of my life and after reading all of the readings for week 3 i was not only reassured that i have been making the right choice all along, but very glad to have been doing so. The information about Linux was dry but enlightening as to the nature of this type of software. I would never have been successful at using this particular type of software as i believe that programming must be a gift for some people. My brother is a very talented programmer and quite adept with anything technical concerning computers. So thinking i could surely accomplish the same thing, when i first started community college i tryed my hand at a computer related degree and very quickly changed my major after taking a class called Visual Basic. So if Linux is based on actually writing and manipulating computer code i would have been a sunken ship all along. As far as Mac goes...well lets just put it mildly and say that i hate it. (especially those condescending mac vs pc commercials) I had had limited exposure to macintosh products in middle school and high school, but after being exposed to Windows i immediatly made the switch and never looked back, except once. Well years went by and Microsoft dominated the field and then all of a sudden a bombardment from Apple. When i was doing my undergrad work the media dept at my university had equipped itself with Macs, most of which were switchable to Windows platforms. I gave mac its last chance and it took a minute amount of time to realize that everytime i logged onto those computers i needed to just switch to the Windows side. Lastly concerning the blog article about vista and xp...when i got my laptop i was offered the option to choose either vista or xp. I opted to go with xp since i felt that vista was entirely too new to be bug free enough to use without having a constant headache from it. So i was most pleased to see that service packs and all kinds of help will be available for xp until 2014. And while vista may be running much better now than ever, i'm quite content to keep on running on my ole trusty XP.

Week Twos Muddiest Thought

i understand the concept of the purpose of the cache, but was wondering, when you defrag your pc and it asks if you wish to empty the cache does this slow down the computer and if it does why would you do this in the first place?

Reading Notes Two

I found the wikipedia article on computer hardware very simple and easy to read. I found that i already knew and understaood about 65% of what was discussed in the article just based on my own personal computer usage over the past few years. The other article which talked about Moores Law was essentially gibberish to me. It wasnt until i watched the video about Moores law that i got a grasp on the concept really at all. Not that im trying to be dense but i certainly am no computer genius, hence the reason i need this class. Last i looked through the computer history museum site and thought it was pretty cool. I like the concept that the website is structured like a museum, although it was crammed packed with a ton of information. I thought the computer timeline was nice in that it went year through year offering short paragraphs for each year that actually contained interesting information instead of dull, droning lingo that only true computer geeks would comprehend. I also remember being taught in high school that the internet was invented and developed by the army and this website painted a very different picture of the origin of the internet.

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Week ones muddiest thought

For week one i was quite confused on how many assignments were due and at what points they were due. Also i was a little put out that for an information technology class in an infomation science building we have no internet access. One last thing, it was a slight challenge finding the articles...the links dont work off campus...yet we have no internet access in the IS building...

Reading Notes One

First of all the term format agnostic was a new term for me, but based on the context it was used in seemed appropriate. The OCLC report was very good, yet disheartening at best. It gave us concrete statistics that show that print publishing is fastly declining and that networks and communication devices are taking the place of mediums such as books and magazines. Since i wish to work in the field that focuses on the preservation of paper based media I suppose this is both good and bad. It seems wrong to me that libraries are becoming more and more dependent on finding ways to to deliver content via mobile devices. I had hoped in the past that perhaps there could be some type of marriage between technology and print media, but with each passing day it becomes increasingly evident to me that we are going to eventually phase out all paper based media. I found the second article on Information literacy rather boring and redundant but having a pertinent point in that because of rapidly changing technology we are all going to have to accept it as well as beome well versed on how to use it. The 3rd article about the Lied library, while it spoke about the technologically advanced library for the students, also served as a reminder that we are involved in a rapidly changing technological revolution since alot of the technology it talked about is already outdated. Although still young, I'm old fashioned, and these articles along with the class we're in are a painful reminder that people have lost their love of books and replaced them with iphones.