Final exam blog post

It is obvious that the internet gives us convenient lives, however, many people claim that the internet has bad influence as well. I would like to introduce my opinions of good and bad aspects of using the internet.

Since "smartphones" such as iPhone are popular these days, we can access to the internet anytime, anywhere and easily. I am iPhone user and it does so many jobs and I don't think I can live without it. According to this site, malicious software (malware) would affect not only your computer, but also your smartphone by such as downloading applications and files. I've never thought that internet virus affect smartphones so I was bit surprized. Malware wouldn't let your phone recieve any messages or phone calls and also, it would download any files and applications without permissons. If you got virus on smartphone, it woudn't work properly same as computers got virus. To avoid getting malware on smartphones, it is affective to check review of the application. It is annoying to get virus but also, it might spread to your friends without knowing it.

Internet doesn't need to show our faces, we tend to say whatever we like. It would take as a good way to say opinions, however, if people get used to talk as anonymous, people might get communication difficulties like people become afraid of talking to people face to face.

However, the internet has great influence on our lives as I wrote before, and as you might already know. Can you imagine your life without the internet?

We can use the internet as a tool for keeping in touch with friends. Before, writing letter or calling were the only way however, it takes pretty long while to get letters or it costs to call. Facebook is such a world wide social network sevice therefore you can contact with people out of your country soon.

If we didn't have time to go shopping, you can shop at home.. by using the internet. Nowadays many shops have online shop. Moreover, online shop have more stocks than an individual shop.

There are still so many considerations of using the internet. Therefore, people using the internet have to have knowledge of these, be careful and take responsibilities.
I almost everyday conect to the internet but I've never had bad experiece of using the internet. Therefore I have much more positive image of it than negative image. If I didn't take this CIS class, I would never know about the malware and other bad influences of internet therefore, it was really good opportunity for me. I think people like me should be careful!

http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/05/03/17670.aspx
http://www.lifesupporters.com/family-friendly-news/entertainment/good-things-about-the-internet-20070605190.html

1 Quote a Day

The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
-ALICE MORSE EARLE

Description here
I personally like finding nice quotes from internet sites, books and songs. I hate quotations for writing papers though. I was really impressed by this quote when I found this, and it is one of my favorites so I wanted to share this to everyone. This is pretty famous therefore you may know but I hope you like it!

The Four Icon Challenge

fouriconchallenge.egg on Aviary.

description of this assignment here

Guess what movie this is..
Probably it is a little bit difficult.
Here, a big big biiiig hint for you. It's a Disney movie.

Here is the answer!!!
I cannot watch this movie without crying.. Even it was the trailer :-(
I will definitely make my future children watch this. love it!

If you haven't watched it before, I totally recommend you to check it out! like, during winter break :)


I used Aviary Editor to edit this picture since I don't have any photo editor on my laptop. Icons are from this site.

Your very own Spubble

My third ds 106 is Your very own Spubble.
I've just heard that visual assignments are easy, so, why don't I try one?



This picture was taken in last summer, when my friend did my hair color.. she has started working as a hair stylist from April and she wanted to practice coloring on people's hair actually. I didn't ask her any color at that moment because she is my BFF and I trusted her that she wouldn't do any strange colors. She bleached my hair pretty much and it became so blighter! like.. beyond my expectation. lol

Afterward, I was warned to return my hair color by a store manager of my part time job since the blighter hair color is not allowed but i guess it was good experience for both of us!

Name that single

This is my second ds 106 assignment! Name that single!
It's really simple one. You just need to guess a song from this picture! I think I chose really easy and simple picture.

This song reminds me of the winter 3 years ago. I visited Italy as school exchange program for 2 weeks and went out every night during that moment. My host sister took me many places by driving and this song was always on the radio!

It's getting cold these days here in Tokyo and I sometimes miss the days in Italy so I listen to this song :p


In case you couldn't find the answer, check this.

Greetings

I finally started working on ds106 assignments.. I know it's pretty late but anyways I will do my best.

Assignment I chose this time is "Greetings from ds106".

All my classmates would know it but in case you are not from TUJ or whatever, I'm here from Tokyo, Japan. I've heard that Tokyo is the second largest city in the world! I'm not sure, I may be wrong. I've never lived out of Tokyo so I cannot compare with other cities however.. I love being here at this moment.

If I describe Tokyo just 3 words.. fun, colorful and crazyyyyy ;p
I'm not big fan of Japanese cartoons but people influenced by those wear the animation costumes and I think it is one of Japanese culture and it's fun to see them. And if you went to the city, you can see that almost all buildings have signboards which have many colors. And finally the reason I described Tokyo as crazy is that although Tokyo is literally small city (the second smallest prefecture in Japan), there are sooooooooooo many people here like about half of Japanese citizens are here in such a small place. Lack of place to live is serious problem so we have tall taaaaalllll buildings. A problem is that they prevent us to see whole beutiful sky though :(

So, this is the greeting from Tokyo :)
I hope I can explain it well..


And sorry I edit this picture by iPhone. I wish I could use Photoshop or any good editor on the internet next time.

weekly blog assignment #3

Post-It Note Art Collage (PINAP) by Ceito ATV thru creativecommons

There are three definitions of the word of "artist" in a dictionary.
1, someone who produces art, especially paintings or drawings
2, a professional performer, especially a singer, dancer, or actor
3, informal someone who is extremely good at something 

In timmmmyboy's blog, he is talking about his idea and he thinks that "we are all artists". I totally agree with him. I think every actions we do in our daily life relate to art or something creative somehow. We just don't know the actions are the art and creating something, I think. For example, taking pictures is one of arts. Cooking would be also arts. Taking notes in a class would be also because it is needed not only writing but also how to arrange words, graphs, whatever.

Everyone at least had an opportunity to take an art class in school before. In a class, teachers label and give scores for what we made. Some could have good scores, on the other hand, some could also get bad scores. I have really had no idea why teachers do this for the things we made since I was in elementary school because everyone must have done their best for those.

However, as I wrote first, the definitions of "artist" sounds like more "professional" and this word is like not for "everyone". But I believe in that everyone can be an artist as timmmmyboy thinks :)

Midterm exam (Mashup)

I'm not sure if it is proper for exam but I will do my best.

A degital stollytelling assignments are our new project that would be focus on next. It is kinda similar as dailyshoot assignments that we did on twitter before. To join this project, we just need to have own blogs.

I'm gonna explain what "mashup" category is.
The meaning of "mashup" is that making things crushed and mixed.

Mashup by Meet The Chumbeques' photostream thorogh creative commons

Assignments are like these.
"Movie Trailar Mashup" project is that making different story by using whatever favorite music trailar and adding other audio or part of movies. For example, his,his and hers
"Music Mash" project is that making a totally different song by mixing songs. If you put a word "mashup" on YouTube's search box, you can find some ideas about this. Such as


For me this category sounds fun however, it may take time to make these kind of movies and music. As you can see from this page, only a few people did this category than other ones.

practice practice practice

1955-2011 By Alfonso Cano through CClicense

Gossips on the internet

Have you ever watched an American TV drama, "gossip girl"? In this drama, anonymous blogger called "gossip girl" blogs whatever interesting gossips about teenagers who are in a same area, NYC and send text messages to subscribers. Since everyone has cellphones and it's easy to access the internet and SNS wherever you are, it's happening not only in a TV drama, but in our reality lives!

10 majority ways that gossips spread through the internet

1. Email – One way to spread a rumor quickly is to send an email to all the contacts in your account, except the one the rumor is about, of course. Then they can forward it to all their contacts and on it goes from there. You better hope they delete your name when they forward it, or you might get blamed for starting it.
2. Facebook – Post your gossip on facebook and all your friends will know about it instantly. If they “like” it, comment on it or repost it, all their friends will see it too. Pretty soon you’ve got the rumor spreading quickly.
3. Myspace – Another social networking sight great for gossiping is Myspace. Post that rumor on a bulletin or your group’s message board and watch it spread like wildfire.
4. Twitter – You can tweet a rumor and all your Twitter followers will know your juicy gossip in 140 characters or less. They can re-tweet it to all their followers and in no time the gossip is flying through cyberspace.
5. Blogs – Some people love to spread gossip through their blogs. Even unintentional rumors are sometimes started by bloggers.
6. Website – You won’t believe some of the stuff you find posted on websites, and you shouldn’t either. There are whole websites put on the web just for the purpose of spreading misinformation. Always remember to check their sources.
7. YouTube – If you have a registered YouTube account you can upload an unlimited number of videos. If you have a video of someone doing something dubious, this is the best way to spread that rumor to millions of viewers.
8. Comments – A great way to anonymously spread gossip is to post a comment on a website, blog or YouTube video. You can log in under an assumed username and say all kinds of outrageous things without revealing your identity.
9. Chat rooms – Another anonymous way to spread rumors are internet chat rooms. You can start with an offhand comment and embellish it as you go.
10. Texting – If you see or hear something juicy to gossip about, you can send a text message to all your friends. That will get the thumbs flying as the rumor gets spread.

Japanese ways of gossiping through the internet

2 channel
It is the Japan's largest internet forum and about 2.5millions of posts are made everyday. Unlike SNS such as facebook and twitter, it is not required to mention users's names therefore it is the complete freedom of anonymous posts. There are tons of categories such as news, TV programs, fashion, food, culture, celebrities and so on. It can be used for exchanging informations but also gossiping and speaking ill of anything. It is said that many Japanese famous people try not to see 2 channel because they get hurt.
Moreover, since it is consisted by anonymous post, it sometimes announced lies such as homicide and people get to confused.


As you can see, there are so many ways gossip spread on the internet. You cannot see other people's face directly when you talk to someone on the internet that means those information are not necessarily truth.

Inspiration

Douglas Engelbart is an internet pioneer and invented the computer mouse, hypertext, and so on. He recieved the U.S. patent for the computer mouse.

Ted Nelson is a sociologist, philosopher and a pioneer of information technology.

“A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.”

This is one of his famous quotes and he launched "Project Xanadu" in 1960, for the purpose of creating a simple system in computer networks. He devoted most of his life to this project, however, the project xanadu didn't work well.

Both of them were great inspired by "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush. They read this article and it worked as a media of creating an idea of hypertext.


I cannot imagine how Vannevar Bush predicted and got an idea of memex. But thanks for him, now we have such convenient lives!

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