Lecture 11, Blog 12

15/12/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 11
Blog 12

Security on the internet.

What is an IP address? It consists of four sets of three digits and it enables you to find exactly which computer has been used for something. If you want to find out your own IP address it is easy to do so, What is my IP address?

Just because your voice can be heard it doesn’t mean anyone is listening. However, there is an argument with the Internet it is different from the real world because if you think about it life has always been like that.





Flashmob. An attack by several people at a specific time where it reverses the idea of pathetic fallacy instead of the audience knowing what is going on it is the actors/entertainers/people who know but not the audience. T-Mobile did a fantastic Flashmob to promote their network on 15th January 2009 which was then broadcasted onto television. It is really amazing I thought it was great and made me smile a lot!

Live Journal. This is a publishing platform where you can create your own journal or articles like blogger.com but for journals.

The Internet is a lot more interconnected than the old publishing industry. However, the downside to flash mobs is that it arranges their meetings and protests on the Internet is that everything is traceable.

INTERDEPENDANT AND COMPLEXED, more so than ever before.

Slackervism, how active are you really when it comes to fighting physically in what you believe in? People believe that by watching something, reading something or joining a group is politically active. E publishing is one of the most influential and important to Governments moving ideas through the world at incredible rates and make people feel they have done something.

You can’t stop people using the Internet. Governments will but they do not succeed.

Thinking that the Internet is solely for good but people know how to use it in bad ways.

Usernames
Passwords = who has access to all of this? Someone will we just don’t know who.
Emails
The Internet is inherently safe and insecure.

Podcasting.

Arguably BBC iPlayer is a pod cast.



Click here to go to You Tube and watch how to create a pod cast on Blogger.

Podcast, from iPod. Not an audio cast because the audio cast can only be streamed on an MP3 created by Apple, which is the iPod. A pod cast is basically as RSS but it contains added features.

Clickcaster. This is essentially a blog but the difference is that you can upload and audio or visual which can be streamed onto an iPod.



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Lecture 10, Blog 11

08/12/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 10
Blog 11

What is technology?

What components does the following technologies need to make them possible?

Technology is created when something is applied to a digital media this results in the creation of a technology.

Finance; this is so deeply embedded that we don’t see it as a technology anymore like books.

PDF; this is a fundamental technology that affects its distribution, it ensures that everything is embedded and that it doesn’t change so that you can open files in the format it was created.

Lulu, web publishing technology; word processing, printers, graphic design software/ image editing software, PDF files, internet (IPTCP, HTML), website (active server pages), forum tools, xml, post script, CC e-commerce, encryption/security/verification = secure servers, rss.

Blogging; html, host website, embedding, rss, hyperlinks, Internet, www, database,

Interactive Fiction; platform, programming language, distribution and content (technology is used to create and achieve this), xml, algorithms, internet, inform, software.

Visual novels; audio, graphic design to create animation, audio, development platforms, content, distribution, internet, flash, programming, graphic editing software, digital interactive formats.

Publishing on demand; PDF, databases, printers, networks, mobile phones (distribution), photocopiers, internet, websites, books (printing press, product of technology, gives an easy way of accessing data), post script.

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Lecture 9, Blog 10

01/12/2009
Danielle Boden
elu6d2

E-Publishing
Lecture 9
Blog 10


This weeks topic is alternate interactive fiction.



This week we looked at Renpy, which is a software that enables you to create graphical interactive fiction resulting in the creation of a visual novel. However there are limitations to this. Problems encountered when creating and using visual novels are that they are not very interactive.

Visual book versus the audio book, which is better?

Value added chain with Renpy.

To produce a visual novel you need the following components, a story, images, sources, content and providers. This adds value to projects with a chain going through it.

Disruptive technologies
Algorithms – Software.

Programming is what sets it apart.

The Internet is a network of networks = IPTCP;
www = an interconnection of files through hyperlinks making it easy to navigate around the Internet, however, what is the difference between these two?

It was Tim Burness Lee who came up with the concept of HTML and the idea of a browser.

E-Commerce

It is XML that makes Lulu (postscript) and e publishing possible.

What is XML? Extensible Mark-up Language



Technology disrupts your skill base but why is this?
It cuts people off from society and by today you don’t need to be a programmer to use technology and it is programming that is the disruptive technology.

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