Week 13-Why things Matter

According to the article , Blogject is the combination of blog and object which meant to focus attention on the participation of “object” and “things” in the sphere of networked social discourse which called blogsphere or social web. For example which mention in the article, an early protozoa on Blogject species evolutionary chain is Pigeon that Blogs. The Pigeon that Blogs is a project by Beatriz da Costa, it’s a pigeon, or more precisely, a flock of pigeons that are equipped with some telemetric to communicate on Internet wirelessly, a GPS device for tracing where it’s been flying, and an environmental sensor that records the levels of toxins and pollutants in the air through which they fly.

The characteristic of Blogject which mention in the article are:

1.Blogjects track and trace where they are and where they’ve been;

2.Blogjects have self-contained(embedded) histories of their encounters and experiences

3.Blogjects always have some form of agency-they can foment action and participate; they have an assertive voice within the social web.

In article written that :

"Blogger is the people that create the culture , but sometimes the blogger not paying attention on the comments. However, blogject is participate in the whole meaning-making apparatus in the social web and that is becoming" internet of things". Blogjects  will make feedback if the conversation is maintenance and made consequential through hourly RSS feeds and visualization of that same routine data,this Blogject is going to get some trackback."

Can you imagine the internet connects to our daily life? Nowadays the numbers of object connecting to the internet is increasing. See the link below to found out more:

In the future, they will be more creative idea that connected to the “things” that make our life become lively and convenient. However, there will be a phenomenon which people communicate with the things rather than a people. When people communicate with the things or objects, they will become a weird relationship as people are talking to the objects not human being. But this kind of technologies will make the world become fantastic and connected as the things and objects can directly do the things that human being think and want in the same time. This is a kind of technologies that keep growing and will be achieving in the future of life. 

Week 12- Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web

Android is an open-source software stack for mobile devices, and a corresponding open-source project led by Google. Android OS’s mission is to establish an open platform for developers to build innovative mobile apps and create the most efficient online speed to the users. They don’t want the users to spend too much data as the data packages are quite expensive. They are thinking about the ways to give the users a great experience without wasting the spectrum. So, the Rubin went to discuss about the partnership and co-operation with Google to create the new experiences. However, Apple technologies are tending to create an easier, more intuitive experience so developers can focus on making great apps.

Due to the reason of technology generation, peoples tend to switch their online behavior from PC to mobile phones. Compare to I-phone, Android can’t fulfill the needs as Apple had more power with the co-operative with the application creator but I-phone had restricted for source code closed. Android are free to install any applications in the Android system’s devices and they wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, so that no industry player can restrict or control the innovations of any other. That’s the reason of created Android and made its source code open.  This is the best advantages that Android can compare to I-phone. Besides that, Android had created a fantastic speed for internet surfing to the users and save from their data. As the partner of Android , Google providing the best Google Mobile applications for the phones that run the Android operating system like Google search, Google Maps, Gmail, Youtube , Latitude, and more others to make the Android’s phone users more convenient and efficiency. 

Week 11- Facebook and Twitter are just places revolutionaries go

Recently, the evolution of the communication tool had made the changes to the world. Facebook and Twitter had become the most popular communication tool among the world. Through Facebook and Twitter, peoples can connect each other which have the common interest or topic. People can discuss the topic and get different opinions around the world because of the revolution of the communication tool to social network.

Through Facebook and Twitter, people can found the leader which has the power to decide or lead the false and true and solve the problem for the group members. Twitter and Facebook are the communication networking which can share the personal feeling to the people in the social networking’s world. Through the social networking’s world, people can exchange their opinion to get their suggestion to solve the problem. People can know other people’s personal feeling by follow-up the blogspot.

Although the social networking is very famous communication among the people but it also got its disadvantages. For example from the CNN news article, it said that “there are few top universities make creative by using Facebook or Twitter to communicate with students but there are still much universities are still slow  to catch on. So, this will make the students neglect to their websites as the tweet too infrequently or fail to reply to student questions.” This example makes the paper or board information become more famous compare to using social networking to communicate with the students. So, this is not much suggestion on the advantages and disadvantages on social networking as different communication devices can reached different target audiences. 

Week 9-Civic Hacking: a new agenda for e-democracy

According to the Webster’s defines democracy as “a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation.” Putting an ‘e’ in front of democracy means nothing more than using information technology tools to facilitate, improve and ultimately extend the exercise of democracy. E-democracy has both a tactical side and a strategic side. On the tactical side, information technology has advanced communication and the access to information arguably better than any known medium (Caldow, 2004)

 Although internet is the most popular communication tool in global, but when it collocation with the e-democracy, it will show low-effectiveness when the peoples are interested in the politics. The British government had paid effort in the networking to find more citizens pay attention and participate in the politics but in the article state that it seems to be the wrong assumption as people who are not interested in the politics, the electronic democracy will not help to grab their attention although it is in the internet form.

However, if reciprocity online is distributed, it will work better and benefit to the e-democracy as in the article said that reciprocity means helping someone because, at some unspecified point in the future, you will need someone else to help you out too. It is rational realization of ‘do unto others as you would have done to yourself’.

Due to the reason of popularization of social networking in internet, even politics others also spend many times and money to develop the applications which can meet the teenagers and also the social goal. Nowadays, the companies spend lots on the broadcasting area like radio and TV as these kinds of broadcasting had large popularity and it has the most effectiveness to the audiences in the ways sharing the information by using the medium. This is applied in the application too. Many creators find any ways to expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible.

So, the e-democracy should not be target on the peoples who had the qualification that can involved in the politics but also the ordinary peoples as this group of peoples had closed connection with the internet and they also had the highest possibility change from ordinary people to the people who can participate in the politics. It can create the electronic free spaces for the peoples to exchange their ideas and opinion to create the communication’s relation.