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Reading Response to: “The Work of Knowledge”

Published on December 9, 2009 in Conclusion and where to go from here..., Electronic Research, Information Rhetoric, Home Work

SHARED KNOWLEDGE. “Discussing differences while standing on a shared ground, we work towards understanding.” Philosophers are lonely thinkers.  Through conversations things that we know are not “interesting to talk about.” In a conversation our thoughts are released less edited, versus the philosopher’s paper that is well thought through. “Paper drives thought into our head” while

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Thoughts on my blog organization

Published on December 3, 2009 in Home Work, Information Ethics

For the blog organization assignment I first decided to give it a name that is the same as the class, this way the reader is able to understand why I am talking about the subject.  Secondly I devided the blog entries into two categories: one is classwork and another is homework, one is meant to

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Class work: lecture notes on organization vs. access

Published on November 20, 2009 in Class Work, Everything is Miscelaneous, WP Blog Project

in a pre-digital technology, its archival practices are fairly nice.  When we are trying to store something digitally, how do we store it?  are we using drives, are we using CDs, DVDs, etc.  Digitally stored file is a great way to back something up, but the technology is also evolving and today’s files are more

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Reading Response to: “Messiness as a Virtue”

Published on November 19, 2009 in Everything is Miscelaneous, WP Blog Project, Home Work

In the mess left by the department store sales (first order mess) and incompatibility of the patients records (second order mess) we “feel better” when they are fixed up to the original state of order, because that is how they are organized.  In the third order, the digital miscellany, the mess is a “Virtue.”  As

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Class work: lecture notes on filtering & nothing.

Published on November 13, 2009 in Class Work, Electronic Research, Information Rhetoric, Nothing

1. more on filtering: Database with well organized metadata is useful if you have a closed set of information that you want to look at in detail.  Information about film, movies, directors, producers… IMDB first comes to mind instead of Google.  IMDB is a well organized database, it is faceted (sorted by movie, by director,

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