WEEK 10

Information Management

TUTORIAL

TASK
1) For task one we need to use bookmarks and favourites on the internet. Our first task was to visit the website http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html to complete the activities that we were given for the tutorial on how to use the favourites option on the internet.
Below a screenshot has been provided of my favourites that I created for this particular activity;




3) For task three we had to read Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" archive online at this website; http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdcont.htm


4) After reading the "DNA of information" I came to an understanding that in our time we revolve around the information age. Although it is evident that most of the information is delivered in the form of atoms such as; newspapers, magazines and books. I personally believe that even though this was published 13 years ago, Negroponte's ideas are definately important and still relevant, basically predicting what is going to happen for the future, now.

Negroponte's ideas are still relevant because the information is current and expanding and reaching to new levels constantly. It is seen here that although atom can be considered good, it can also prove to be unreliable. You can only establish this by reading thorugh what has been provided on the website.


Negative - Atoms
-costly
-bulky

Positive - Atoms
-Physical, real-life material
-Hard copy, can create several copies copies

Negative - Bits
- easy to edit
-easy to fake

Positive - Bits

-Efficient
-Editing can occur
-Cheap, reasonable price

LECTURE

This weeks lecture consisted of ways of organising text, documents, images and webpages. We have so much information these days that managing it can be quite difficult. A good way when using the internet to manage information is by using bookmarks and putting them into relevant folders. Information is either atom-based or bit-based.

-Using a file manager or using bookmarks.
-Problems associated with managing information, the positives and negatives.

Atom based - Pros: easily concealed, hard to alter and copy.
Cons: costly, difficult to edit, easily stolen and damaged.
Bit Based - Pros: cheap, flexible, easy to edit.
Cons: easy to access & copy, difficult to notify whether it's
authentic or not.

-Digital Reproductions, the positives and negatives.
-Internet banking, music and email
-Using search tools

READINGS

The readings "Grazing the Net" is an article aimed at students as more of the information provided by the site is mroe relevant to them. The image presented was of a chicken this was used to put forward the true meaning of "free range students", like "free range eggs". Viewers/students need to acknowledge why it is important to collect and organise a large amount of information the reason is so that we as students learn how to manage information whihc is all over the places.