Post-university life – Page 6

The Modern phonebook

Aug 19, 2007

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in facebook, observation, Post-university life, tech related, university

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been trying to categorise websites and how they are used into single words. To this end I have recently started to view facebook as a self actualising phonebook. There are a number of factors which help to contribute to this feeling. One of these is the ability for me…

McLuhan’s Thoughts And How They May Relate To Twitter

Aug 15, 2007

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richard

in observation, Post-university life, tech related, twitter, university

Reading Time: 4 minutes”The simultaneity of electric communication, also characteristic of our nervous system, makes each of us present and accessible to every other person in the world. To a large degree, our co-presence everywhere at once in the electric age is a fact of passive, rather than active, experience. Actively we are more likely…

Forums Are The Sandbox Of The Web

Aug 14, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life, tech related, work

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe concept of community is an old one, coming from an evolutionary need for more than one pair of eyes to watch out for predators and other threats. over time the sense of community has evolved and become as great as it is today. There are however pockets of social discord. I…

Wikipedia Reaches 2 Million Articles

Aug 7, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life, tech related, website news

Reading Time: 5 minutesA recent article has brought to the world’s attention that Wikipedia has over 2 million articles on its website and that’s great. What it means is that thousands of people have taken a little time out of their day to provide what knowledge they had to a global audience through their small…

The Cult of the Amateur – thoughts on the book

Aug 6, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life, reviews, tech related

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen I heard with what hate one podcaster talked about the Cult Of The Amateur I told myself that I should read this book because it addresses a question that is at least two hundred years old, mainly the difference between high culture and low culture. High culture is seen as everything…

The Digital Lifestyle

Jul 24, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life, tech related, university

Reading Time: 2 minutesA journalism student at the University of Westminster worked on an item about addiction to technology and this is quite an old item. In 1998 (if I remember correctly) I was speaking to a security guard in Martinique about the internet and he talked about it as if it was a disease…

There Are Two Parts To The World Wide Web

Jul 23, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life, random, tech related

Reading Time: 3 minutesthe future of the web the search engine was the king, now it’s social networking. People had their own home page, now it’s grown to their own website. The blog was grown and grown, replacing webrings to be developed For several years the search engine was king. This was the place where…

860 k/bits per second on wifi

Jul 21, 2007

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richard

in Post-university life

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am currently downloading at about 800 k/bits per second which is some of the fastest downloading I’ve done, especially from home over a wifi connection. It’s a broadband connection but using one of the latest wifi cards. That’s the current speed

Learning Soundtrack Pro

Jul 17, 2007

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richard

in editing, fun, Post-university life

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDuring my second year at university with some friends, we worked on a zombie film where my friend was a director and I was Lighting Camera Operator and editor. As a result of this, we had almost total control of the film and it was a great learning experience. Several weeks…

It’s Tuesday Morning

Jul 17, 2007

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richard

in Holidays, Post-university life, summer holidays

Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you ever used a computer so much that it becomes part of your way of life and your person? There are two computers with which I have done this. The first of these was an IBM ThinkPad during the IB and the second was an iBook during my two final years…

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