Chapter 5
1. Chapter five is basically about metadata and how important it is not only in the physical world, but the online world as well. Metadata is becoming more and more important online especially as the amount of information online continues to expand. The importance of metadata will continue to grow as well into the future because everything is basically turning into metadata.
2. “Everything is metadata and everything can be a label.” “in the third order, everything is connected and therefore everything is metadata.”
3. The point about how everything is metadata is so true in my life because I spend quite a bit of time online searching for things. It is amazing how you can type in one thing and a search engine takes that metadata and can either come up with exactly what you were looking for or take it completely out of context and give you results that have the same metadata but completely irrelevant to what you originally searched for.
Chapter 6
1. Chapter six goes into detail about unique identifiers. In one portion of the chapter RFID tags are detailed and also explained how they are changing the world we live in today. Unique identifiers are becoming more and more important especially because of the amount of overwhelming data we have access to, whether it be physical or online.
2. “But unique identifiers don’t just provide a way to pull information together. They also allow information to be dispersed.” “It’s how we’re going to make sense of the miscellany of ideas and information we’re creating for ourselves.”
3. My connection for this chapter has a lot to do with the last chapter as well. Searching online is becoming more and more scrambled and now with the use of unique identifiers it will become easier to find what you are looking for. When I worked at a retail store we used RFID tags for our clothing and it made it very simple to sort our inventory much quicker than having to actually looking within the product to tell the size.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Prologue, Chpt 1, Chpt 2 Post
Prologue-
1. In my opinion I think that the prologue is mainly about the difference between physical space and objects and the virtual realm of spaces and objects. Mainly discussing the limitations of both the objects and spaces as well as the advantages and disadvantages of both.
2. -“If I come in with a shopping list of 15 items, then the other 7,185 items are not only irrelevant but hide what I’m looking for.”
-“physical objects can only be in one spot at one time.”
3. My real world connection to this is how I hate going into stores looking for only one thing and having to look through the majority of the store to find it. Best Buy is a very good example, I usually just need one thing when I go in and since they change there displays often, it makes it difficult to find that one item.
Chapter 1
1. Chapter 1 is basically about how customers browse in not only physical stores but more importantly in today’s society how we browse online stores and programs. The way we browse has drastically changed since the Web has taken off and will continue to do so as new technologies come out.
2. –“Before the Web, the word browsing was a polite way of telling a salesperson to buzz off.”
-“ As soon as music went digital, we learned that the natural unit of music is the track.”
3. I completely agree with many of the main points of this chapter mainly for the fact of how I browse in the different store fronts, whether it be online or physical. I would much rather prefer to browse in a physical store these days just to avoid a salesperson and I think that is why I prefer online shopping for most of the things I purchase.
Chapter 2
1. Chapter 2 talks a lot about the use of alphabetization in today’s world and how the need for a universal alphabet is a must. Since the online world is going global there needs to be a universal standard for how things are alphabetized as well as how things are translated to different parts of the world.
2. –“go global, having inconsistent alphabets seems to make as much sense as having inconsistent calendars.”
-“Space, time, and atoms conspire to make it hard to alphabetize information that is not yet complete.”
3. I often shop online and come across the problem of alphabetization and translation very often. Since the web has gone global and many of the marketplaces out there are overseas, it makes it difficult to understand exactly what is being described and even what exactly you are buying just for the fact that there is no universal method of alphabetization or translation.
1. In my opinion I think that the prologue is mainly about the difference between physical space and objects and the virtual realm of spaces and objects. Mainly discussing the limitations of both the objects and spaces as well as the advantages and disadvantages of both.
2. -“If I come in with a shopping list of 15 items, then the other 7,185 items are not only irrelevant but hide what I’m looking for.”
-“physical objects can only be in one spot at one time.”
3. My real world connection to this is how I hate going into stores looking for only one thing and having to look through the majority of the store to find it. Best Buy is a very good example, I usually just need one thing when I go in and since they change there displays often, it makes it difficult to find that one item.
Chapter 1
1. Chapter 1 is basically about how customers browse in not only physical stores but more importantly in today’s society how we browse online stores and programs. The way we browse has drastically changed since the Web has taken off and will continue to do so as new technologies come out.
2. –“Before the Web, the word browsing was a polite way of telling a salesperson to buzz off.”
-“ As soon as music went digital, we learned that the natural unit of music is the track.”
3. I completely agree with many of the main points of this chapter mainly for the fact of how I browse in the different store fronts, whether it be online or physical. I would much rather prefer to browse in a physical store these days just to avoid a salesperson and I think that is why I prefer online shopping for most of the things I purchase.
Chapter 2
1. Chapter 2 talks a lot about the use of alphabetization in today’s world and how the need for a universal alphabet is a must. Since the online world is going global there needs to be a universal standard for how things are alphabetized as well as how things are translated to different parts of the world.
2. –“go global, having inconsistent alphabets seems to make as much sense as having inconsistent calendars.”
-“Space, time, and atoms conspire to make it hard to alphabetize information that is not yet complete.”
3. I often shop online and come across the problem of alphabetization and translation very often. Since the web has gone global and many of the marketplaces out there are overseas, it makes it difficult to understand exactly what is being described and even what exactly you are buying just for the fact that there is no universal method of alphabetization or translation.
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