4-1

Week 4-1 Monday, June 14, 2004
1. Chose five e-zines from other students in this class (see left column) and write a few sentences on each one on what their e-zine is about and critque its format and useability. Of the zines you visit would you return to them for updates..
Megan Breedlove’s e-zine is interesting. It is based on providing information on where to go in Manhattan to have an inexpensive, but fun, time. It is very easy to navigate around the site and if I was ever planning on going to the city I would return to the site.
Keisuke’s site is very interesting. I actually really like reggae but don’t really know how to go about finding the reggae I would like to listen to because I really don’t know a lot about it. This is definitely a site I would check out to find out what the hot new reggae music is.
Next I visited Jose Garcia’s site about cars. It started out sounding like an interesting site however there is one picture that loads and one that doesn’t and none of the other pages load. I don’t think I’d visit this site again.
Forth I visited was Noelle’s site. I really like the background on her main page however it makes it hard to see the guestbook. Once I entered the site I really liked what she’s done. I would definitely visit the site again if I wanted to know anything about weezer!
Last I visited Patrick Milin’s site on Steven King. I thought it was a really interesting site that was set up well. It was very user friendly and easy to navigate. I don’t know if I would ever visit the site again but not because it was a bad site.

2. Discuss the use of icons on the net and list ten commonly used ones - plus write a short message using only emoticons (or mostly at least)
Icons are used on the net as both a form of shorthand and a way to try and express exactly what you are feeling and thinking. Sometimes it is hard to convey how you mean things to be said because you are not talking to the person face to face.
=|:-) :-& :-=(

3. Read the section on hypertext and answer Why Bolter say hypertextual thinking is unnatural
Because we are still stuck in the print world. It is not easy to change habits that have been developed over the years.

4. What is important about the PROJECT XANADU - who started it and what is its link to hypertext
Ted Nelson started Project Xanadu in order to make hypertext more visible for us to read.

5. Stuart Moulthrop is one of the leaders in hypertext fiction. You will spend about half an hour exploring his site and answer the questions below
• What happens when you refresh the page - what do you think Moulthrop did this for?
When you refresh the page the images change. They probably did this just to add another interesting element to their page that would get viewers interested in the site.
• Go to the 'hypertexts' link and click on 'The Color of Television' from the page (not from here) and follow the link-story to the beginning - what was the colour of the sky.....?
The color of the sky was the color of the television.
• Follow the story - click on 'color' that you used for the above question - what becomes of the 'levitating TV'?
The color of the things that change.
• What happens when you click in the TV box and scroll around in the tv?
All the other colors change
6. Open Word and write a short story about anything - make several links to your own pages. Go to your Angelfire or Geocities site. It can be as simple as you want or as complex as Moutthrop. Highlight at least four words that will take the reader to the next page and back
One day I was walking down the street when I saw something that I could not even imagine seeing in my wildest dreams…a kangaroo hopping down the road like nothing was wrong. I scratched my head thinking that I had to be dreaming but when I walked inside I put on the television and saw that the Mets had been winning 10-0 and knew it wasn’t a dream. But then I walked upstairs and into my room to see that my room wasn’t there anymore and I was standing on Mars. Now I was starting to get freaked out, but I decided to just go with the flow and wander around Mars for a little while. I was there for no longer than 10 minutes before I saw Argenis Rodriguez from com 465. To my dismay I then heard a terrible ringing in my ear and then I realized that I was just dreaming and had to get up for class at 8:30 in the morning.
7. From 'Influence of the World Wide Web on literature' view the section "MULTIPLICITY"; what are some of the issues facing online hypertextual fiction writing?
An issue facing Hypertextual fiction writing online is that it can produce an array of different interpretations from readers.
8. Read the section on Identity and ' Identity and Performance in Cyberspace ' and discuss the construction of identity online.
Some people argue that when interacting in cyberspace we become cyborgs and also one can argue we create a multi selves identity when communicating in cyberspace.

4-2

Week 4-2 Tuesday, June 15, 2004
1. From the reading: Developing Personal And Emotional Relationships Via Computer Mediated Communication by Brittney Chenault: What are some of the challenges of electronic communities?
Its hard to express true feelings and emotions, it’s difficult to research CMC because people don’t want to allow access to their personal correspondence.

2. Review this discussion of a chat room dialogue saved on September 11 2001 and discuss how the conversation in the chat room changed once this event began to unfold.
Well the chatroom actually only had two people in it talking between themselves then right after the attack there were seventy lines per minute being written. This shows that no matter what the need to communicate people now turn to the computer.

3. From the same discussion paper above what is the difference between moderated and unmoderated chat rooms?
Moderated chat rooms are chat rooms where different people will go into and ask questions to one specific “expert,” whereas, unmoderated chat rooms are chatrooms in which anyone can talk with anyone else and everyone is talking together.

4. Why are emoticons considered to be a “symbolic” form of communication? (See CS 3.3.1.1 Emoticons at: CS 3.3.1.1 Emoticons
Because they are not letters, they are not alphabetical. They are pictures used to depict a word or phrase.

5. Read The Effects of Computers on Traditional Writing. Discuss why 'Computers reintroduce many oral characteristics into electronic writing'?
Computers reintroduce many oral characteristics into electronic writing because people see talking online as more of a discussion and not so much as formal writing. People see “typing” online more as “talking” online. It’s more like talking on the phone and less like writing letters. Even the word “chat” is a type of oral communication.

3-3, 3-4

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com 465
Week 3-3

1. Read the article on How To Use HTML Meta Tags and explain how the proper words for your page will help you get a higher linking in a search engine.
Meta tags have never been a guaranteed way to gain a top ranking on crawler-based search engines. Today, the most valuable feature they offer the web site owner is the ability to control to some degree how their web pages are described by some search engines. They also offer the ability to prevent pages from being indexed at all.

2. How should writing be adjusted for the web to increase its usability?
You should add in key words that will show up in a search engine. Especially words that you think can only be associated with your website and no one else’s websites.

3. What is Fair use
Fair use is one of the most important, and least clear cut, limits to copyright. It permits some use of others' works even without approval. But when? Words like "fair" or "reasonable" cannot be precisely defined, but here are a few benchmarks.

4. Tell what the different sections in this URL represent. http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/theory/pena/index2.html
All the different parts after the original website are just different links that you can go to from that site. It is like in our zine when we have different addresses to something on the same page. The extra words in between the “/” just link you to another part of that persons website.

5. Read What's wrong with academic writing on the web? Inverting the pyramid and write what is wrong with academic writing on the web?
The academic style of writing does not work on the internet. Users need to know conclusions first not last. This style of writing is called the inverted pyramid. Using this approach to disseminate research papers on the internet is not effective. Usability studies show that Web users want instant gratification. Users do not want to guess what is in a paper and they do not read something that might not be useful.

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com 465
Week3-4

1. From the section '1.2 Evolution of language from early utterances to chatroom utterances' anwser why it is that 'With technological communication the individual’s identity is not clear'.

2. What is IRC?
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is the most used online chat software and has many individual server companies

3. what are MUDs?
Multi-User Dungeons, or MUDs present a world through text descriptions; players move around by typing sentences. In MUDs, a user can simulate or “text” such physically impossible activities as communicating telepathically, shape-shifting, teleporting, creating little machine selves, and conjuring birds and pleasure domes out of thin air. Curiously, despite the magical aura of self-determining expressivity this suggests, second person narrative is the viewpoint of choice for text MUDs, the user able to type in a direct command to a character..

4. what is the first of the new paradigm shifts discussed?
Firstly, there is the shift from print to computerization. Print relies on hierarchy and linearity, technologising itself into organizational categories which privilege the producer or author over the receiver or reader.

5. What is this autor's 'Purpose of examining online conversation'?
The authors purpose of discussion online conversation is to explain to the readers how he first got interested in the internet and when he became interested what he first did when he use to use the internet. Now he has expanded his horizon with his use of the internet passed to talking on it.

6. Discuss why the reader is important as part of the chat room dialogue.
Most simply put, it is the participant-observer in the chatroom, the writer-reader of the text, who influences and is influenced by the chat milieu. But while this is at one level a shared and negotiative act, it is at another a private and self-assertive one

7. Why have I taken an ethnographic approach to researching text-based chatrooms
Such a position legitimates analysis of the new texting-enterprises of CMC – but it also anticipates that these too will have powers of social and cultural formation

8. What are the Unique features of chatrooms?
Some things in which I find unique about chatrooms is the ability to talk to more than one person at the same time including 2 or more people all having the same conversation. I also think it is unique how if one person wants to show another person something, many people can see it also.

9. What is ODAM?
Online Discourse Analytic Methods (ODAM) I have developed methodology to enable meaningful exploration of chatroom talk. My method draws on conventions conversational analysis but adds the following new understandings.

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com 465
Week4-1


1. Chose five e-zines from other students in this class (see left column) and write a few sentences on each one on what their e-zine is about and critque its format and usability. Of the zines you visit would you return to them for updates..
Rober Wachtler his zine was very interesting to me because I am a sports fan, he definitely pleased his target audience.
Jordan Diaz- Jordan’s zine was very interesting to me because I am a Giant fan. He made it very easy to see what you were going to read about on his links.
Steve Thomas- Steve’s zine was one of my favorites because he was very funny and he likes to smoke marijuana which is very fun.
Andrew Rooney- Andrew’s zine was a very colorful one, which made it very enjoyable and nice to look at.

2. Discuss the use of icons on the net and list ten commonly used ones - plus write a short message using only emoticons (or mostly at least)
1- =) this means someone is happy
2- =( this means someone is sad
3- :-p sticking there tongue out
4- d:-) person with baseball hat on
5- : -)( Big wet kiss
6- ?-( Black eye
7- (((H))) A big hug
8- :-] blockhead
9- :-(=) a person with buck teeth
10- c= :-) A chef
The other day I had sex when I left I was =).

3. Read the section on hypertext and answer Why Bolter say hypertextual thinking is unnatural
The reason may be simply that we are still in the late age of print and are still influenced by the linear habits developed over hundreds of years. Or it may be that linear and univocal expression comes easier to the human mind than multiple expressions.

4. What is important about the PROJECT XANADU - who started it and what is its link to hypertext
Ted nelson created it “The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivializes our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents.”

5. Stuart Moulthrop is one of the leaders in hypertext fiction. You will spend about half an hour exploring his site and answer the questions below
• What happens when you refresh the page - what do you think Moulthrop did this for? The picture changes, im not sure maybe he downloaded a different picture and linked it to the refresh button.
• Go to the 'hypertexts' link and click on 'The Color of Television' from the page (not from here) and follow the link-story to the beginning - what was the colour of the sky.....? “the color of television tuned to a dead channel.”
• Follow the story - click on 'color' that you used for the above question - what becomes of the 'levitating TV'? it erases the black so that you see a picture.
• What happens when you click in the TV box and scroll around in the tv? A picture emerges
• Go back a page and click on 'sky' and follow the links and write a paragraph what the story is about. The story was really confussing, it talked about the atmosphere.

8. From 'Influence of the World Wide Web on literature' view the section "MULTIPLICITY"; what are some of the issues facing online hypertextual fiction writing?There can be too many links with too many endings, that it becomes confusing.

9. Read the section on Identity and ' Identity and Performance in Cyberspace ' and discuss the construction of identity online. Because the stage that we present ourselves in (online) changes, so do the actors (us) that perform online. We are producing a fake identity like if we were acting.

week2-4 thursday

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com465
Week 2-4


1. Look at these sites and tell what the requirements are for using the images offered for "free"
You don’t have to do anything to get these things because they are free.

2. Are these animated images free? Yes

3. Are these collections of clipart free? yes

4. Are these backgrounds free? Yes

5. What about the images on this site http://neuage.indiko.com/wombat.htm could you use them? No

6. Read the article 10 Big Myths about copyright explained and list each one and write a sentence or two (do not cut and paste what it says) what it means.

1) "If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted."
This means that if a person does not formally tell everyone on his website where they got their information from, than it was illegally copyrighted.

2) "If I don't charge for it, it's not a violation."
That is completely false because u don’t have to be charged for anything to be doping something illegal.

3) "If it's posted to Usenet it's in the public domain."
Nothing modern is in the public domain anymore unless the owner explicitly puts it in the public domain.

4) "My posting was just fair use!"
The "fair use" exemption to (U.S.) copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author.

5) "If you don't defend your copyright you lose it." -- "Somebody has that name copyrighted!"
Copyright is effectively never lost these days, unless explicitly given away

6) "If I make up my own stories, but base them on another work, my new work belongs to me."
U.S. Copyright law is quite explicit that the making of what are called "derivative works" -- works based or derived from another copyrighted work -- is the exclusive province of the owner of the original work.

7) "They can't get me, defendants in court have powerful rights!"
Copyright law is mostly civil law. If you violate copyright you would usually get sued, not be charged with a crime.

8) "Oh, so copyright violation isn't a crime or anything?"
Actually, recently in the USA commercial copyright violation involving more than 10 copies and value over $2500 was made a felony.

9) "It doesn't hurt anybody -- in fact it's free advertising."
It's up to the owner to decide if they want the free ads or not. If they want them, they will be sure to contact you

10) "They e-mailed me a copy, so I can post it."
To have a copy is not to have the copyright. All the E-mail you write is copyrighted. However, E-mail is not, unless previously agreed, secret.

11) “So I can't ever reproduce anything?"
Myth #11 (I didn't want to change the now-famous title of this article) is actually one sometimes generated in response to this list of 10 myths.

7. What are the main principles of the "copyleft" movement?
Copyleft is the application of copyright law to force derivative works to also be released with a copyleft license. So long as all of those wanting to modify the work accept the terms, the net effect is to facilitate successive improvement by a wide range of contributors. Those who are unwilling or unable to accept the terms are prohibited from creating derivative works.

8. What is Lynx? What are its long term advantages for businesses?
Linux is an open source operating system that offers UNIX reliability at Intel prices. Linux is built by a large community of developers that use the Internet to share source code, test software, submit bug fixes, and deliver new product features.

9. What will your ezine be on? Sports, politics, penguins, hip hop, poetry, astrology, tofu...?
My ezine is going to be on sports. It is going to cover a coupke of sports such as basketball baseball and hockey.

10. What will be the name of your ezine?
The name of my ezine is Robbie’s world of sports.

11. What is the purpose of the e-zine?
The purpose of an ezine is to make a web page on something that is interesting to you. It is a way of expressing your feelings and showing who you are through the use of pictures.

12. Who do you want to read your e-zine?
I think the people that will read my ezine with be avid sports fans, which are the people I want to look at my ezine.

13. How much do you want to cover in your e-zine?
I don’t want my ezine to go too much into depth on each sport I just want to give a basic overview about what is happening on a specific team or in some cases the playoffs.

14. How do you hope to affect your readers?
I hope that the people that read it get a better appreciation for sports and the p[eople who read it that are not into sports I hope it changes there mind to start following sports.

15. How often will you publish to reach your objectives and goals?
I always try to reaching my objectives and my goals because if you don’t try you will never be success.

week2-4 thursday

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com465
Week 2-4


1. Look at these sites and tell what the requirements are for using the images offered for "free"
You don’t have to do anything to get these things because they are free.

2. Are these animated images free? Yes

3. Are these collections of clipart free? yes

4. Are these backgrounds free? Yes

5. What about the images on this site http://neuage.indiko.com/wombat.htm could you use them? No

6. Read the article 10 Big Myths about copyright explained and list each one and write a sentence or two (do not cut and paste what it says) what it means.

1) "If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted."
This means that if a person does not formally tell everyone on his website where they got their information from, than it was illegally copyrighted.

2) "If I don't charge for it, it's not a violation."
That is completely false because u don’t have to be charged for anything to be doping something illegal.

3) "If it's posted to Usenet it's in the public domain."
Nothing modern is in the public domain anymore unless the owner explicitly puts it in the public domain.

4) "My posting was just fair use!"
The "fair use" exemption to (U.S.) copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author.

5) "If you don't defend your copyright you lose it." -- "Somebody has that name copyrighted!"
Copyright is effectively never lost these days, unless explicitly given away

6) "If I make up my own stories, but base them on another work, my new work belongs to me."
U.S. Copyright law is quite explicit that the making of what are called "derivative works" -- works based or derived from another copyrighted work -- is the exclusive province of the owner of the original work.

7) "They can't get me, defendants in court have powerful rights!"
Copyright law is mostly civil law. If you violate copyright you would usually get sued, not be charged with a crime.

8) "Oh, so copyright violation isn't a crime or anything?"
Actually, recently in the USA commercial copyright violation involving more than 10 copies and value over $2500 was made a felony.

9) "It doesn't hurt anybody -- in fact it's free advertising."
It's up to the owner to decide if they want the free ads or not. If they want them, they will be sure to contact you

10) "They e-mailed me a copy, so I can post it."
To have a copy is not to have the copyright. All the E-mail you write is copyrighted. However, E-mail is not, unless previously agreed, secret.

11) “So I can't ever reproduce anything?"
Myth #11 (I didn't want to change the now-famous title of this article) is actually one sometimes generated in response to this list of 10 myths.

7. What are the main principles of the "copyleft" movement?
Copyleft is the application of copyright law to force derivative works to also be released with a copyleft license. So long as all of those wanting to modify the work accept the terms, the net effect is to facilitate successive improvement by a wide range of contributors. Those who are unwilling or unable to accept the terms are prohibited from creating derivative works.

8. What is Lynx? What are its long term advantages for businesses?
Linux is an open source operating system that offers UNIX reliability at Intel prices. Linux is built by a large community of developers that use the Internet to share source code, test software, submit bug fixes, and deliver new product features.

9. What will your ezine be on? Sports, politics, penguins, hip hop, poetry, astrology, tofu...?
My ezine is going to be on sports. It is going to cover a coupke of sports such as basketball baseball and hockey.

10. What will be the name of your ezine?
The name of my ezine is Robbie’s world of sports.

11. What is the purpose of the e-zine?
The purpose of an ezine is to make a web page on something that is interesting to you. It is a way of expressing your feelings and showing who you are through the use of pictures.

12. Who do you want to read your e-zine?
I think the people that will read my ezine with be avid sports fans, which are the people I want to look at my ezine.

13. How much do you want to cover in your e-zine?
I don’t want my ezine to go too much into depth on each sport I just want to give a basic overview about what is happening on a specific team or in some cases the playoffs.

14. How do you hope to affect your readers?
I hope that the people that read it get a better appreciation for sports and the p[eople who read it that are not into sports I hope it changes there mind to start following sports.

15. How often will you publish to reach your objectives and goals?
I always try to reaching my objectives and my goals because if you don’t try you will never be success.

journal update

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com465
Week 2-5


1 How might the "performance" of a webpage be optimized? A webpage can be optimized by using smaller file pictures and organizing it better for quicker downloads.

Using the image below in a few sentences
• How does this image communicate? This image communicates sex and desire.
• How does this text communicate? The text communicates activities we do to obtain our wants and desires.
• How do they communicate together? They communicate together the idea do this to get this.
Reading Garrett's model of the elements of user experience identifies a "basic duality" of the hypertext environment. What is the nature of this duality, and how does it affect web design? It is now a remote software interface, which in essence has added a third dimension to software, allowing many more designs.
Read The Semantic Web
By Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila (note: Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web)
A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities. And write a paragraph on what the Semantic Web is. The semantic web is a new form of web content that is meaningful to computers. It encompasses a revolution of new computer technology. The Semantic Web will bring structure to jumble ofcontent in Web pages, which fosters an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users.


What is this ezine about? For example is there a theme? Who do you think the author intends to be the audience? This e-zine is about chanters, and the audience is probably intended to be protestors or people who like to chant.


Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com465
Week 3-1

1 Read the article "GIF vs. JPEG" and describes which would be best for the images on your zine. Also, read Understanding Images Basics to help with your answer. For the pictures in my ezine JPEG is definitely the better of the two choices because JPEG is better for images with more complex color patterns and this format enables you to save images with millions of colors, whereas the GIF option restricts you to 256 colors. Another important issue is file size. JPEG permits a greater degree of compression than the GIF alternative, enabling quicker downloading times for larger graphics. And JPEGs appear to retain almost complete image quality for most photographs.
2 Is the using of the gif format legal or not? Read the article "The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective". The using of the gif format as of today is no longer legal, after Unisys developed a patent for their LZW procedure.
3 For your journal (number 8) find one graphic from this site or this site http://www.animationfactory.com/animations/people_a_l/
4 There are three parts to this. Read Universal Web accessibility Policy (1) and where it reads, " Is your web site accessible? (Use these resources to determine if your web pages meet accessibility guidelines.)" on the checklist read all 14 - I am concerned with number 1 and 14 for now for your zine. Write a sentence or two on whether you have addressed these two points in your zine thus far. (2) Submit your site (this will take you to Welcome to the Bobby Online Free Portal) and write out several of the errors that were found on your page. 3. Go to net mechanic and after getting your result for your zine thus far put your results for question 10b 1. For my zine I have added the alt feature into my images. I have simple words describing them. I use clear language in my pages that is understandable.

2. One of the errors found on my page was the use of sizing and positioning and color contrast3.
3. Link Check 0 bad links
Bad Links Summary Report 0 bad links
Remote Links Summary Report 0 bad links
HTML Check & Repair 0 errors
Browser Compatibility 1 problem
Load Time 21.60 seconds
Spell Check 4 possible errors

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com465
Week 3-2

In the article Seven MistakesNewbie Ezine Publishers Make by Sivasubramanian (you will need to pronounce his name for the test - not really) is this article for your type of ezine or for another type - why? Think. This is for another type of ezine. That article is written for an audience who is looking to promote a business through their ezine.

Even though this ezine is in another language - discuss what it is about and don't just say music - if music - what type do you think it is on about? Discuss the overall layout and colour scheme.
I think it’s about popular rock music. I saw a lot of familiar names such as Radiohead, R.E.M. and Madonna. The layout is done using tables and uses a unique color scheme which features several tantalizing colors which drive me wild.

What is the Importance of Using A Template? The template allows the web designer to easily recreate the same format on all consecutive pages. Which is important because it makes it possible to create many ezines with a common format at a more efiicient pace.

Find out about e-books and discuss what they are and whether they may replace hardcopy book
E-books are books that can be downloaded on the internet, sometimes for free. These may replace books because they are cheaper and you don’t need to leave your house to purchase them.

From 'Tips for Developing Content for Your E-Zine' What is 'the secret' of a good ezine that would make sense to use in respect to yours? The secret is keeping your page updated; no one will visit your page if your information has become obsolete.

week2-3

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com465
Week2-3

What is the difference between HTML and XHTML
What are three "flavors" of XHTML 1.0:
When I insert an image in Dreamweaver (or any webtext thingy) it looks like this why?

Why will the conference discussed on this page http://www.unicttaskforce.org/index.asp be of signifance?
Copy and paste the CONFERENCE MANIFESTO into your journal.

1 HTML is the lingua franca for publishing hypertext on the World Wide Web. It is a non-proprietary format based upon SGML, and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors - you type it in from scratch- to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring tools. HTML uses tags such as

and

to structure text into headings, paragraphs, lists, hypertext links.
The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML™) is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML, reformulated in XML. XHTML Family document types are all XML-based, and ultimately are designed to work in conjunction with XML-based user agents. The difference is XHTML is just an extension of HTML.

2 XHTML 1.0 Strict - Use this when you want really clean structural mark-up, free of any markup associated with layout. Use this together with W3C's Cascading Style Sheet language (CSS) to get the font, color, and layout effects you want.
XHTML 1.0 Transitional - Many people writing Web pages for the general public to access might want to use this flavor of XHTML 1.0. The idea is to take advantage of XHTML features including style sheets but nonetheless to make small adjustments to your markup for the benefit of those viewing your pages with older browsers which can't understand style sheets. These include using the body element with bgcolor, text and link attributes.
XHTML 1.0 Frameset - Use this when you want to use Frames to partition the browser window into two or more frames.
3The image loks like this because this image only shows where the picture is on the local server, the full address of the picture has to be given.
4This conference is important because it brings world Internet issues into world view. It discusses Information Communication Technologies, and how they have the capacity to address some recent challenges. Their unique power can improve the productivity of teachers and administrators, extend education to hard-to-reach places and provide students with compelling and effective content and tools for learning - more efficiently and at lower cost than traditional methods.

week1-4

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com 465
Week 1-4

1. 1Find three sites on the Internet which addresses political issues of Internet usage and in two-three sentences discuss the site's rhetoric saying saying what it's view points are and what issues are being discussed. Provide the link.
www.nuw.ac.n2/staff/alastairsmith/_eval.htm
www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/research/webeval.htm/
www.names.orguk/evaluate.htm/


2. Using an on-line translator (such as altavista's Babel) put in your journal what the English translation for this is and what do you think it is saying?
Souls tous deux, ravis, chantants!
Comme on s'aime!
Comme on cueille le printemps
que Dieu seme!Quels rires etincelants
Dansces ombres
Pleines jadis de fronts blancs,
De coeurs sombres!On est tout frais maries
On s'envoie
Les charmants cris varies
De la joie.Purs ebats meles au vent
Qui frissone!
Gaite que le noir couvent
Assaisonne!On effeuille des jasmins
Sur la pierre
Ou l'abbesse joint les mains
En priere.(Les tombeaux, de croix marques,
Font partie
De ces jeux
Souls both, delighted, singing! How one s'aime! How one picking spring that God seme!Quels laughter etincelants Dansces shades Full formerly with white faces, Of hearts sombres!On is any expenses marry One s'envoie the charming cries vary joie.Purs ebats meles with the wind Which frissone! Gaite that the black brood Assaisonne!On thins out the leaves of of the jasmines On the stone Or l abbess joint hands In priere.(Les tombs, of cross marks, Font part Of these plays, a little spades By l'ortie.)
Terrel I have no idea what this says.









3Once upon time there was man named Bill
He got shot in the face and his blood did spill
The pain was immense so he got a pill
And that little pill the pain did kill
So do yourself a favor

French
Une fois sur le temps il y avait projectile obtenu He de Bill appelé par homme dans le visage et son sang a renversé la douleur était immense ainsi il a obtenu une pillule et cette petite pillule que la douleur a tuée ainsi faites-vous une faveur

German
Einmal nach Zeit gab es Mann genannten Bill He erhaltenen Schuß im Gesicht und sein Blut verschüttete die Schmerz war unermeßlich, also erhielt er eine Pille und diese kleine Pille, welche die Schmerz töteten, also tun Sie sich eine Bevorzugung

Korean
한 번 시간에 얼굴안에 남자에 의하여 빌 지명된He에 의하여 얻은 탄 있고 그의 혈액은 고통을 굉대했다 유출했다 그래서 그는 환약을 얻고 고통이 죽인 저 작은 환약 그래서 호의 하십시요

Russian
Раз на времени была названная человеком съемка Счета Он полученная в стороне и его кровь разлила боль была больш поэтому он получил пилюльку и та маленькая пилюлька, котор боль убила поэтому сделайте благосклонность

week2-1

Colin Ronan
Prof. Neuage
Com465
Week2-1

1 Discuss your "art" of making a homepage today in Dreamweaver - this is today's journal entry for your bloggs
I found this journal dreamweaver process to be very cumbersome at first. However as my knowledge grows on the subject, and I get more practical useage on the computer the process is becoming easier and more familiar.


2 www.albany.edu/~cr8434/legen.jpeg

week1-3

Colin Ronan
Com 465
Neuage
Week1-3




1 What are some of the global impacts of being able to create a homepage on the Internet?
The global effects are that people can carve their own little piece of the world wide web and make it their own. It is almost like an unlimited opportunity to buy space in a classified and post what ever you want. People being able to create their own homepage is very liberating because it gives people the opportunity to say, write, and share whatever they want with the entire world. This has far reaching effects because I can create my own homepage about whatever I want and put it on the net.

2 Where is the technological city state and why is it refereed to as the 21st century fortress city
The technological city state is located in Singapore, and it is referred to as this because Singapore is a highly advanced city technologically and is advancing on a large scale drastically fast. Singapore has a large network from which many systems are connected, that is why it is referred to as the “intelligent island”.

3 What is right or wrong about machines influence on our lives?
I think that there is nothing wrong with the growing influence machines have in our lives. As technology grows it creates more efficient and time saving ways for people to achieve things it would have taken months to do in the past. Some people would say that technology is too involved in our everyday lives, but it’s this technology that makes our everyday lives possible. As the future comes technology will only advance more and more, the sky is the limit. I find nothing wrong with this, machines are just tools society uses today, like a plow farmers used during feudal times. If we can take advantage of these machines to increase our level of efficiency and make things easier for society, why would we embrace machines, computers and technology with open arms?
4 E-mail your web address of the page you worked on today to three other people in the class (see group for e-mail addresses). When you have received three other student's websites write a few paragraphs on what the person is telling us with their website. You should get all your information just from their write-up about themselves, the links to their favourite sites and the picture they used.

week 1-2

Colin Ronan

Week 1-1



Week 1-1: Name as many members of your class as you can remember.



1 Jordan, Sammy, Steve, Mike, Ryan, Terrel, Megan, Edwina, Tom, Katherine, Anne Marie



Week 1-2: Write a paragraph on what you see as communicating on the Internet.



2 I see communicating on the internet as a very simple process that incorporates all facets of everyday life. People use the internet to communicate whatever topics are relevant to their daily activities. What type of communication process you use or why is different for everyone. For example for a SUNY student communicating on the Internet consists of Instant Messager between friends, e-mail between family, friends, or teachers. Advertisements, and all websites could be viewed as a type of communication; weather it's a company communicating their products, or and organization posting information about themselves. Although this isn't a traditional face to face type of communication, it still fulfills the message-reciever communication model.



Colin Ronan
Com 465
Neuage
Week 1-2

1 what is your 'blogger' address?
Com465ronan@blogspot.com

2 Write a couple of sentences on each of these new tensions that technology brings to society.
Centralization vs. Fragmentation
The Internet has opened many doors to all kinds of topics and information not readily available in the past. The tension that has been created is between weather or not the vast amount of information has centralized information of fragmented it. I believe this question is a doubled edged sword because although there is so much information on the Internet that it often seems to complex and intricate to navigate, the Internet centralized information in the fact that all information is right at your fingertips. People now more than ever have to be trained to surf the Internet; anyone can type a keyword search, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they find the information they’re looking for.

A holistic perspective vs. specialized knowledge
Technology today has definitely shaped people to be more concerned with a specialized knowledge than a holistic approach. Technology has progressed ridiculously over the last fifteen years; for someone to be specialized in “computers” and be expected to know everything about the subject, as the holistic approach would expect, is very difficult and rare. There are still plenty of skills outside the technological world people can have that will make them well rounded individuals.

Too much information vs. Too little information
Honestly I don’t believe the Internet could ever hold too much information. The Internet is something that is universal among all people throughout the world; therefore the subjects and information contained on the web should reflect all people’s interests. It is unfair to say that someone’s interest or information on the Internet is useless or unimportant. However I do believe the Internet should be more closely regulated to exclude false information.

Worker isolation/alienation vs. Community connections
This subject is definitely determined by the individual. It is almost certain that the computers at the work place and home create a type of cyber alienation/isolation from the rest of society. However, this idea can be boiled down to the individual, people make a rational choice to stay behind there computer rather than socialize with others. It is the responsibility of the individual to make him or herself available socially, and in turn not the fault of computers for isolating or alienating them. On the other hand the Internet can be used successfully utilized for community connections. On the web there are numerous examples of web sites that are dedicated to positive community programs. The Internet can help people and organizations achieve there goals more easily by making them more accessible to the public; people are definitely more likely to check out an interesting web address they see, than even dial the phone to attempt to access information.

Sharing vs. Withholding access to information
Again this is an issue that is specific to the situation. For some subjects it is only obvious that sharing of information is both useful and necessary to society. Context is everything, for example when dealing with information about creating bombs and things that could be detrimental to society withholding access to information is prudent; which raises the question who decides what is withheld and what isn’t.

Information "filters" vs. Disintermediation
Disintermediation is a very positive thing for the consumer and for corporations. Prior to Internet shopping people were forced to buy all items through a middle man, who of course always incur there own fees. Buying direct allows the companies to sell easier, faster, and cheaper; it also allows the consumer to buy easier, faster, and cheaper.

Public intervention vs. Private decision making
The Internet should definitely be a public run system. The government has enough regulation on everything, the Internet is the world’s freedom to discuss, trade, and view anything they want without government or private censorship.

3 Which cities are America's Most Wired Cities?
San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, and Washington D.C.

4 Which cities are the world's Most Wired Cities?
Singapore, Tokyo, Moscow, London, San Francisco

5 What are the next three largest users of the Internet after English speaking people?
Chinese, Japanese, Spanish

6 What Arab country uses the Internet the most?
Iran

7'Future City' What does the author say will be the affect the future city will have on the individual? What do you think the affect the future city will have on the individual?
The future city is going to drastically dehumanize the individual. With the growing role of computers and technology, there is becoming less of a need for individuals to do jobs computers do cheaper, faster, and more efficiently. As cities become larger the individual will be hired only for menial or physical labor jobs.