muddiest point week 14

I know that we have to protect our children from certain things on the internet but how much protection is too much?

Readings for week of dec. 1

I think that it is scary that big brother is always watching. These articles show that we have agencies watching agencies. Everything is now monitored and everyone has an electronic identity. Today, we are always on the look out for identity theft and the government is going through personal information. You can find anything about anyone online, just google their name and their address. phone number, age, and anything written about them comes up. Try googling yourself some time and see what comes up. If you can't find what your looking for there, go to youtube. 10/1, it'll be there.

muddiest point week of thanksgiving

When did using Wiki's become popular for managing a business?

coments week 12

http://rians-thoughts.blogspot.com/

http://quiquan.blogspot.com/

readings for week of 11/24-25

This weeks readings were about using the Internet and Internet services to communicate with others in the profession. "Using as wiki to manage a library" discussed the wiki as a way of sharing information. The author described wiki's as a way to better share information and collaboration and using a wiki efficiently divides the work for group work. This article also give details as to how to create your own wiki. I thought that the information in this one was really good and the directions were easy to follow.

"Creating the academic library folksonomy" was in favor of social tagging was a way to remember bookmarked pages. The problem with bookmarking is that the pages are only remembered on the computer you are working with at the time. In tagging, they are remembered on the Internet site and therefore you can do your work from multiple computers.

The video was interesting but I'll admit that I did not watch the whole thing. Learning how Wikipedia was made gave me a new outlook on Internet databases.

muddiest point week 11/17-21

What are the benefits/challenges of a distributed digital library?

week 10 comments

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Muddiest point for week 10 (11/10-11/14)

Why was .net and .org created? Why aren't all url's .com?

Week 11 readings

This weeks readings are pretty much the same in content so I'm just going to converge them together. This weeks readings were about the Digital libraries. The articles described the government projects in recent history with grants for funding research online with things like Google. They were able to digitize the collections. I think that digital libraries are important to the future of libraries.The biggest problem that I see with digital libraries is that most libraries and librarians do not have the training or the technology to handle digital libraries.

assignment 6

I hope that this is right.
http://www.pitt.edu/~erf21/ this is my index.html

for some reason my links decided they didn't likw me so here are the other pages.

http://www.pitt.edu/~erf21/my2600page.html

http://www.pitt.edu/~erf21/favorites.html

http://www.pitt.edu/~erf21/links.html

Sorry for the mishap

Week 10 comments

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muddiest point week 10

What is the biggest difference between HTML and XML?

Week 9 Readings

Intro. XML- This piece describes XML as a way to pass information in whole or part to other servers. It says that i is not HTML tags to markup documents or a standardized template for producing particular types of documents. I'm still confused about the difference between HTML and XML but I'm computer illiterate. The other article describe XML to its advantages like the difference between XML 1.0 and XML 1.1. I liked that article because it had tutorials and instructions. The others were like dictionaries that described each word that had to do with XML. They were long and didn't keep my interest for long.

Week 8 muddiest point

What do you mean the disadvatage to HTML is that it doesn't tightly control the layout?

koha assignment

http://pitt4.kohawc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/bookshelves/shelves.pl?shelfnumber=15&modifyshelfcontents=1&viewshelf=15&addbarcode=100240&modifyshelfcontents=1&shelfnumber=15


sci-fi fantasy book shelf

week 7 comments

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week 8 reading

This week, I had some trouble with the readings. While I am familiar with the HTML processing but I found these articles a bit too complicated. They did give you step by step instructions, you had to keep the page up while working on examples. I found that the easiest one to figure out was of course the HTML cheat sheet page.

Week 8 muddiest point

Is there any way that radio waves from tow laptops simultaneously using the Internet will cancel each other out?

week 6 comments

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http://susangeiss.blogspot.com/2008/10/week-7-readings.html

jing assignment

http://www.screencast.com/users/briarrz/folders/Jing/media/30dc9bbb-9d01-4006-a5e1-3a8a6b55edea

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30195756@N02/2912413682/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30195756@N02/2912413682/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30195756@N02/2912420808/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30195756@N02/2911583601/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30195756@N02/2911585925/

week 7 readings

I had some trouble assessing the article for this week so hears what I discovered. In the how stuff worked article, it was interesting to find out that the Internet is not something that was created in the past twenty years but was actually created in 1962. It wasn't until 1992 that the network became global. I vaguely remember life before the Internet, but just barley.
I could not access the Dismantling integrated library services article because it needed a password and login id. I did watch Inside the google machine. It was interesting to find out the workings of Google and how you get information so fast.

muddiest point week 6

How far can a campus network spread when the university is a large area, such as NYU? Or, would this be part of a metropolitan network?

comments week 5

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http://suburbanbarnyard.blogspot.com/

assignment 3 bib

http://www.citeulike.org/user/briarrz_scarlett

Week 6 Readings

This week, I found the reading to much easier than the past several weeks.The local area network article was just the basics of small area computer networking. The Computer Networking post described the factors of computer networking, scale, connection method, functional relationship, and network topology.The youtube post of common types of computer networks indicated the different types of networks from personal area to metropolitan area networks. The one that I am most familiar with is campus are network. Where I went to undergrad had massive problems with networks, theirs kept crashing, especially on registration days.

Muddiest point week 5

Are visual perceptions frequent in any other computer operations other than visual imaging?

week 4 comments

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muddiest point week 4

In regards to the lecture on databases, how easily can integrated databases be manipulated and confused between the users?

week 5 readings

Data compression article: This article descirbed data compression as encoding information using fewer bits that an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. It also said that encoding only works if the sender and the receiver use the same language. Data compressing is useful because it "reduces the expensive resources" like hard disks. The downside of data compression is that it must be decompressed which might hurt some applications.There are two kinds of compression, lossless and lossy. Lossless has less errors than lossy.

Data compression basics: This article basically describes encoding as short hand for the computer. While in most cases it is short hand, it can make the data longer than the original. For me, encoding is confusing. The data means the same thing but is shown different.

Imaging Pittsburgh: In 2002 the University of Pittsburgh received a grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to create a "shared gateway to visual image collection over Pittsburgh region". The grant helped to create a collection of Pittsburgh and local people throught the years. The project took two years and was a great success.

YouTube and libraries: I never thought about using YouTube to promote libaries but I guess it can be done. The article also says that you can advertise new material and put a link on the video to go to the library web site. So many people use youtube that it would be easy to get the public to see your youtube video.

week 3 muddiest point

I was confused when I listened to the lecture. It sounded that being able to run windows on OS X was a bad thing. Is it?

week 3 comments

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https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7036399065753048748&postID=914671250983336515&page=1

flickr assignment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30195756@N02/

Week 4 Readings

In the Database reading, it said that a database was a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. I am a little confused about the hierachial model and the network model. The thing that I am really hungup on is that the network model has members and sets. I thought that the network was like the internet that linked other systems together.

I understood the Metadata better as I took a crime mapping course in my undergrad classes. Metadata is data of data. It is usally used in geospatial work which is the placement of data, such as crime mapping.

The overview of the Dublin Core Data Model is the breakdown of the database. It is a bassically a database for all global infortaion possible. The recources are everything from weather forcasts to books. It describes the DCMI as a 'cross-discipline rescource discovery'. I think that this is a great invention but it seems to me that the internet does the same thing.

Week three readings

I read week three's course work an came to these conclusions. I read the "Introduction to Linux" and found this work to understandable and easy to follow. There were things in it that I did not know, though I am a self-professed computer idiot. I did not know the meaning or function of a filter. I do not know if this will help me in everyday life but if is ever a question on Jeopardy, I will know it.
I read both Mac OS X articles and found the Wikipedia to be more useful. But since I do not own a Mac, I was utterly confused.
I did, however, understand the "Update on Windows Road map". I have Vista on my computer and was glad to hear that they are making progress to make Vista more compatible with software. I had sever problems with Vista when I got my computer and did not know where everything was as it is set up different.

Week 1 readings

In the article Lied Library @ four years: technology never stands still, the main point was that there was a library database system that was a trail at UNLV. It was a cutting edge system that they tried for four years while researching the system. It was all hi-tech that made searching for information easier and faster. The new system was put in place of an existing system. The system continued to grow. Some complications that arose with the new system was that students were able to access articles easier so they were printing more articles. In a year the printing on campus doubled.

In the Format Trends article, the point was that a lot of libraries are changing they copies of books into digital databases that make it easier and more accessible to people. There is no difference of the format in the area of information so most libraries are changing to meet the needs of the masses.

In the info. literacy and info tech literacy article, they define info literacy as the communication and content of context whereas the definition of info tech. literacy deals with the locating and searching for info in databases using networks such as text, video, and web. The two need to be taught together to work. Some of the top tech trends today are blogging, copyright, PDA's, Ebooks, Search engines, Google, library catalogs, and web sources.

Week 2 readings

Computer hardware: As defined in the piece, computer hardware is the hidden part of the computer. This means that it is the part that you do not see and the part that does most of the work. This is compared to "soft" ware that is "easily created, modified, or erased". I find it interesting that this piece is on wikipedia as wikipedia is a "soft" ware as it can be easily created, modified, or erased. I do think that it is interesting that most of our everyday object now contain computer hardware such as cars and ipods.

Moore's law: Moore's law is "the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuts every two years". The main points of the formula are the transitors per intergrated circut, density at minimun cost per transitor, and cost per transitor. The creator of Moore's law is Gordon Moore the co-founder of Intel. I agree with Moore's law as it is apparent in today's world with the increasing of computer hardware.

Computer History Museum: I was really interested in the Computer History Muesum. I looked at a couple of the exhibits but was most interested in the timeline. I was amazed that the first "computer" was made in 1939. The 200B aduio oscillator was made by Hewlett-Packard and used in Disney's "Fantasia". It is also hard to think that it took less than 64 years to go from room sized computers that do basic math problems to mirco chips that can do almost anything.