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Creative Media and Digital Culture Program, WSU-Vancouver, 2007-2011
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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Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger 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 …
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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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Examining an academic database social knowing publish then filter lab exercise Books we think of being static, concrete tangible things we get answers. But over time, books are a slower conversation or a forum on the topic, then today's blogs, and forums. Information cloud-editor-publisher-distribute-consumer. information cloud-users as editors - communities - users as users The …
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Citation Weinberger, David. 2008. Everything is miscellaneous: The power of the new digital disorder. New York: Holt. (Amazon) His Twitter account: twitter.com/dweinberger A very easy to read chapter, unlike the previous, perhaps because it talks about the ones and zeros of our basic mentality. We read signs and if they are not simple enough we …
1. What am I looking for? 2. What tools are available? 3. How can I search this tool like an expert? internet of things. what is it? I typed in a Google search "Internet of Things" to look what returns to the query: Wiki was at the top of the list defining the phrase "Internet …
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Search engines becoming very important in our lives, our news, our education, and even politics are dependent upon the searchability of the subject we search for. As Dewey's, rigid structure of categories has its flaws because once the ingredients are mixed, you can't go back and undo what you already mixed in to the bowl. …
To my understanding as we collect files on our computer, we are putting them in the folders, well, when we try to decide whether it is better to keep files miscellaneous and just search for the files, or of organize them into folders and sorting the files. Well, I think we could never have just …
David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2008) explores how the digital age transforms the way we organize, share, and consume knowledge. Early in the book, Weinberger highlights the role of editors, the "social royalty" of a highly hierarchical knowledge system. Editors decide what to include and how to structure …
This chapter begins from the history of the UPC. The need to organize the products under one system, one bar code shows how we as humans operate in this world. This chapter nicely touches up on the organization by comparing the two orders with one another, exposing the nature of the rigid vs. faceted structure. …
Mikhail Oparin 