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Social Media rivers Introduction As discussed in the last 2 blog posts (Internet footprint and Internet shadow), we leave lots of information about us across many places and sites. This forms a tiny fragments of who you are across a wide range of mediums. In this topic we look into how this information forms a river like profile of who you are and how each fragment can potentially be combined. Activity: Twitter What is twitter? Why is it a current fad? find out in this great Youtube video made by Commoncraft: Twitters 'trends of the time' posts If I look at the current tends for 8th February 2010, superbowl is the most discussed topic relating or discussed in at least 3 of the most popular discussion text. Also underboss is another popular tend topic. This shows me that current events can be talked about quickly and effectively and opinions can be shared without the unnecessary, long winded explaination - a simple 'What do you think about...' can give you a stra

Your Digital Shadow Introduction A digital shadow is how you are perceived over the internet, rather then how you want to be perceived (see Internet footprint). Sometimes on blogs and social medias, photos and information is posted up or tagged about you and its these things that make your digital shadow. Activity: Ego surfing In this activity I search for my name (Nick Hanson) to see if I could find a digital shadow of myself but sadly I couldn't as it seems my name is quite popular but I decided to challenge myself to post and sign up for more services. Try it yourself - What's your digital shadow:

Your internet footprint - What's your cyber identity? - Involving: • Netiquette • Presentation of who you are An internet footprint is a term to describe how big your impact is on the internet. It relates to your contributions to the internet such as blog posts, forum posts, social networking profiles etc. Netiquette Netiquette is a set of unspoken rules describing how you should conduct yourself on the internet in the interest of your internet footprint. Although these rules can be broken, braking these rules has the potential to ruin the way people think and relate to you. Nettiquette #1: Emails as a public asset Emails you send to organisation and people who most likely recieve alot of emails on a regular basis should be as informative and clear as possible. Be responsible. Nettiquette #2: discussion groups Enhancing your footprint through the respect and credits you can get through discussion groups is a great enhancement to your online profile but keep in mind to unders

Content sharing Content sharing is a general term that allows users to share information, photos, videos and other media in a variety of ways. With web 2.0 there has been significant changes in the way we share this information as described in this topic. Folksonomy Vs Taxonomy Folksonomy uses 'tags' to describe content which lets users contribute to the cataloging of the medium. This can be seen as a bottom up approach to structuring a site rather than the more heirarchial 'top down' structure. Examples of this can be seen with delicious, flickr and youtube. Flickr in particular intergrates its service with other web 2.0 techologies and allows users to search for photos via location through geo-tagging (intergrating google maps into its service) and also a timeline search allowing for a more detailed search. Copyrights Copyright is a difficult area for me to understand so by explaining wht I know it might make it clearer. When companies produce books, videos, Music

Social Networking Social networking according to this week's required reading (boyd, 2007) harness the power of web 2.0 by allowing you to: • construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system. • articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection. • view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The information submitted to these social networking sites like linkedin, orkut, facebook, myspace, bebe can then be sold to make profit as pointed out by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, that explains it could lead to a security risk. These social networking sites tends to be a faddish with big changes from 2003 to 2009 in which social networking site is popular for example friendster in 2003, myspace 2005~ , facebook currently and possibly twitter rising quickly in fame and popularity. #Activity# Twitter From my visits to and readings on twitter, I fount that it allows you to share short '

Week 5, Module 2.2: 'Wikis' Introduction In this topic I'll find out about wikis, how they're made and what their uses are. What are Wikis Wikis are a great way to obtain more knowledge about a certain area. The term 'Wiki' comes from the word 'fast' in Hawaiian but a backronym to this word means 'What I Know Is' and the key features include: * Collaboration * Creating and editing web pages * Linking between pages * Logging of changes * restrictive use of html Feature 1: Collaboration The key element of a wiki, in my opinion is that it provides a space where multiple people can work on series of intertwined pages. There are two types of wikis though: a private wiki and open wiki. Private Wikis are limited to a specific group of users (for example in a workplace where a small team tackles the same issue together), while in open wikis anyone on the World Wide Web can help edit it (for example Wikipedia). Feature 2: Editing a wiki Editing in a