WEEK 9: 3.0 Internet Footprints
This week I learnt all about my internet footprint, who am I online? It really made me think about how other people might see me online and how sometimes people do not use their real identities but make up new ones. It made me realise that I really have to think about the way I present myself online and it also made me think about the privacy issues with social networking sites. I also learnt about netiquette which refers to the basic social conventions that are applicable to any use of the Internet. I also have to remember that I cannot assume that anything I send or post to the internet will remain private.
WEEK 10: 3.1 Digital Shadows
This week I learnt about digital shadows and how visible I am on the internet, and how all the information that I post to the web creates my Internet footprint. The activity that I had to do for this week was to go 'Ego-Surfing', I had to type my name into the Google search box to see what Google knows about me. Only one page came up with my name on it, from my Twitter account, and from my Frenz of the Enz club membership, so I was very happy with that, I did not expect much to come up as I had not joined many social network sites. I enjoyed the reading by D. Solove called "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumorand Privacy on the Internet", I found it very interesting and I could relate to what he was saying about privacy on the Internet.
WEEK 11: 3.2 Social Me(dia) Rivers
This week I learnt about social media rivers, our output of Facebook status updates, Twitter posts, Last FM playlist updated, and the different posts from a thousand other services and how they all leave tiny fragments of information about ourselves, our likes, our dislikes, our habits and so on. I conidered how those fragments might be used, what they say about people, and how they might be combined in different ways. For this weeks activity I had to create a Friendfeed account and aggregate RSS feeds from my Twitter and Delicious accounts that I had signed up for during the unit and I had to look at the resulting 'feed'. I read Tama Leaver's post "It's a Small World After All: From Wired's Minifesto to the Twitterati", I really enjoyed it.
WEEK 12: 3.3 Future Trends
This week I took a look at some possibilities for the future of the web and how they might impact on the way I use, communicate through and perceive it. I watched a video of Kevin Kelly discussing how potentialities such as cloud computing and the semantic web will evolve over "the next 5,000 days of the Internet", Kelly predicts a machine called the 'One', that will be really intelligent and able to think. I completed my web presence assignment this week and it is the first blog I have created so I hope it looks alright, I had a lot of fun creating it and I learnt so much while doing so. I cannot believe this is the last week of WEB101, it has gone by so fast. I have learnt so much about the Internet and how it all works over the last couple of months and I have enjoyed studying this unit.
