Here is my final project on the influence of hacker culture in our society. http://aledere1.wix.com/main The security and preservation are both the same, I plan to keep digital copies on my hard drive as well as a flash drive that contains my school assignments. The visualizations for the maps, timelines, and text analysis can only […]
Well, I looked at Scratch with the intent to use it in my project somehow, but I don’t think that is the correct way to do it. Scratch is a more technical Kids Pix, and it reminds me of all the old web hosting sites that would have their own programs to visualize information on […]
Roy Rosenzweig’s post reminds me of “web art.” He talks about the changes the internet has gone through since the mid 90s, how the technology of digital data might not be compatible with developing technology, and how this is already a problem with digital works from the 80s. All the technological reasons aside, there are […]
Rosenzweig article is very interesting, I’m so used to Google searches for results that are “in the area” of what I’m looking for that I don’t really think about how these algorithms can be used to find specific, very specific and detailed pieces of information. Since there are so many different articles that have similar […]
Ya Powerpoint sucks. I’ve been in the public school system, and I’ve had to witness first hand the affects of such technology. Who knew that making use of the Microsoft Office Suite for schools would have such terrible side effects. Whenever I can, I try to avoid using Powerpoint, not just because I hate […]
The Felton reports are really pretty. The maps in particular. The first map of the 2009 Felton report and all of the 2008 report are beautiful, which is probably why he can print 2000-3000 of these little reports and get hella paid for it. The infographs, not just the maps, really help visualize data in […]
The Difference Slavery Made is a pretty great piece of history. When linked the first time, I thought it was going to be a paper and I didn’t fully realize the format it was in. Instead of being a paper, divided by topic points, they used the web medium to help separate and organize the […]
I’m familiar with the suite of Google applications, but I hadn’t used Google docs seriously since 12th grade in high school. It’s Google Drive now, which I guess lets it store your documents in the browser cache so you can access it when you’re offline, which is pretty neat. With all the “cloud computing” going […]
The security flaws article was pretty good, but not really “epic.” The Amazon / Apple conflicting security policies are pretty funny and dumb, but the rest of the basic stuff he puts down could have been avoided. There are more holes in his story then just not having the two way authenticator. For his home […]