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		<title>About this blog &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog has been put together as part of the assessment requirements for my Internet Communications subject.  
Post a comment if you think I&#8217;ve missed something or I&#8217;m off track &#8230; I hope you find it interesting.  
 
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		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/about-this-blog/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for &#8216;future shock&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post sets out some of my reflections on the likely future directions of the Internet. 
 

The speed, cost and spread of the Internet
Much of how we use the Internet in the future will be closely linked with the development of faster broadband speeds, and wider access to broadband networks.
We&#8217;ve already seen some of the impacts of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=44&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/preparing-for-future-shock/</link>
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		<title>Information ecologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:  As you read, think about the following questions:

how might the metaphor of an &#8216;ecology&#8217; impact on the way you think about, understand or use the Internet?
how are the concepts &#8216;information&#8217; and &#8216;communication&#8217; understood within the framework of an &#8216;information ecology&#8217;?
why don&#8217;t we talk of a &#8216;communication ecology&#8217;?

Log entry: Nardi and O&#8217;Day (1999) define an information ecology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=24&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/information-ecologies/</link>
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		<title>Evaluating the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:  Work through the tutorial on Evaluating websites. Choose the best &#8217;source&#8217; or site from the three you used in the last task, then evaluate it according to the tutorial.  Write an annotation for the source which could communicate to a reader both your &#8216;judgement&#8217; of the site according to what you have learnt from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=23&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/evaluating-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Searching the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:   Make sure you have a meta searching program installed, such as Copernic or Sherlock. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing.
Log entry:  For this exercise, I chose terms used I&#8217;d researched for my concepts assignment - for concept # 9 &#8217;Permanent Ephemerality&#8217;.  The terms I used were: Internet, persistence, ephemerality, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=22&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/searching-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Tools for using the web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:  Choose at lease two unfamiliar Internet tools/plug-ins.  Experiment with the programs. Think about and reflect on the processes of downloading software/programs from the web.
Log entry:  For this exercise I downloaded Copernic Agent Basic and Bookmark Buddy.

Copernic &#8211; I downloaded this to help with later tasks utilising meta search engines and searches of the &#8216;deep web&#8217;. Other features include [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=21&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/tools-for-using-the-web/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:  What applications or &#8217;services&#8217;  do you think are web 2.0 indicative? Take a look at the Internet Communications Blinklist. Think about the format and usability of a website/html written list with this same information.
Log entry:  Web 2.0 applications are ones that give &#8216;everyday&#8217; Internet users simple tools to make their own web spaces. Social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=20&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/web-20/</link>
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		<title>Blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:  Reflect upon what you have read about blogs. Consider various uses for blogs such as citizen journalism and personal blogging. Have you seen in your net travels any interesting uses for blogs?
Log entry:  This unit gave me my first hands-on experience of blogging, and it&#8217;s illustrated both good and potentially concerning features about blogs.
The Good:

Blogs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=19&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/blogs/</link>
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		<title>FTP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:  Try uploading your web page to your student web space in Oasis or your web space provided by your ISP using ftp.
Log entry:  I downloaded and used SmartFTP for this exercise.  Using the FTP software was fairly straightforward, but I couldn&#8217;t get my page to display properly. After checking Bulletin Board posts, I found that this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=18&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/ftp/</link>
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		<title>WWW Standards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Task:  Make a summary of what you believe are the 5 most important &#8216;rules&#8217; for writing online. Think about any differences between the articles &#8211; is the advice in the older article still current?
Log entry:  5 top rules for writing online:

Be aware that most people tend to scan web pages online rather than read them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tooyu.wordpress.com&blog=3111957&post=17&subd=tooyu&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://tooyu.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/www-standards/</link>
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