can we talk about it

Why is Firefox being adopted so quickly? Because IE is a lame product. It's not so much about open source — but that's great — but that it works so much better ,Sun president Jonathan Schwartz, at the 2005 Open Source summit, Stanford.

Hey what's the deal anyway, why does a company the size of Microsoft have a product inferior to a company that programs an Open Source browser, which every one can have for free and do with it what they will? why is Microsofts IE an inferior browser, people say it's lame, it's riddled with problems.

Do you guy's think it's just Like a Porche V. GM issue,Boutique V. mass production? the more R&D the better the product, and well Microsoft can't possibly employ as many people as Firefox uses to test and develope their products browser, because any body in the %$#&#@! world can play with it. Have you seen all the extentions!

what's up let me know.

weblogs.......shiiiiiit,

I liked the Blood article, she makes good points about the nature of what a journalistic blog is and is not, however, I feel like it’s a bit elitist of her to under fund the amateurs

The four types of blogalism she believes are valid,

• Those written by journalists.
• Those written by professionals about their industry
• Those written by individuals at the scene of a major event.
• Those that link primarily to news about current events

since I love Merriam Webster online so much lately I have brought you all their definitions of journalism If you would like to look for you self, here is the link to the journalism definition, there are five entries besides the basic one, check them all out they are interesting.

1 a : the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media b : the public press c : an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium
2 a : writing designed for publication in a newspaper or magazine b : writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation c : writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest

Look at definition 2.c, this definition tells us that any writing if it is intended to appeal to certain pop taste or public interest is journalism. Maybe I'm playing devils advocate here, and I know this specific dissection of Bloods notion is an easy target, but doesn't that make all blogs journalism, if blogs are the current most popular conduit for the transmission of ideas on the internet, and the public interest is piqued by what these amateur publishers are posting, then semantically all blogs could be considered journalism.

This statement must come with very strict guidelines; I do believe she is correct when she asserts that, Blogging links to other news sites or articles is not journalism. In my opinion the Blogs must be a authored first hand, and cannot simply be a set of links to other news media.

Am I being clear here? I hope I am, because it’s getting late and I’m feeling pooped out. What do ya’ll think?

“Is an eyewitness account journalism, and if so, when? Depending on the event? Depending on the inability of another individual to compile a more complete version of the story? Depending on the skill or training of the person writing the account? The standards used to determine when a personal recollection becomes a journalistic report are likely to vary from case to case.” (Blood)

I’m just learning about journalistic convention and standards, but how can Blood make an assertion that the talent of a writer has anything to do with defining the practice of journalism. To me that’s like using experience level as a judgment criteria to tell whether or not someone is sitting on top of the bicycle and riding. Just because he is four years old and just got off the training wheels yesterday doesn’t mean that the action and work being done cannot be defined as riding the bike. If the kid is going down the hill on two wheels, though he may be completely out of control and the only foreseeable outcome is a serious concussion with a trip to emergency to have some stones removed from his forehead, the Kid is still riding the bike.

Lev Manovich, give me strength

“Live Picture, an image editing program, converts a pixel-based image
into a set of mathematical equations. This allows the user to work with an image of virtually unlimited resolution. Another paint program Matador makes possible painting on a tiny image which may consist of just a few pixels as though it were a high-resolution image (it achieves this by breaking each pixel into a number ofsmaller sub-pixels).”(manovich)

The notion of infinite pixel manipulation reminds me of the campbells soup in the mirror image, when a can of soup is placed between two opposing mirrors, the image is multiplied infinitely, as a far as the light source will allow the eye to see. Like the computer pixel or arrangement of pixel, the reflected image(can of soup) is broken down into sub-images, and you could suppose that the larger the mirror used to reflect the real object the more numerous the reflected images will be, similar to breaking down a standard pixel into sub-pixels, the large the array of pixels the more sub-pixels you have. would you be able to create a pixel, an UberPixel, by manipulating and increasing the value(density of color, or saturation) of the sub-pixels

“How much information in an image can be useful to the viewer”(manovich)

can this digitization of analog media help accessibility(I would like to define an other accessibility mode)the model is of the average user who must sit for extended perionds of time in front of a screen and read digitized data. I can sit for a while, I don’t know if it’s the electromagnetic weridness my computer gives off, but lately I am feeling the effects of the loss of information through the transfer analogue to digitalin my forehead, we talked about this before, and I guess I'm wondering will digital density ever rival that of the printed page. I could pick up a caopy of any book on the shelf now and feel the pain leave my aching head, unless all of thi s is simply a case of dehydration.

here is the definition of analogue: for those of you who are unsure,as I was, about its absolute meaning :

1 : something that is analogous or similar to something else
2 : an organ similar in function to an organ of another animal or plant but different in structure and origin
3 usually analog : a chemical compound that is structurally similar to another but differs slightly in composition (as in the replacement of one atom by an atom of a different element or in the presence of a particular functional group)
4 : a food product made by combining a less expensive food (as soybeans or whitefish) with additives to give the appearance and taste of a more expensive food (as beef or crab)

Is there a different definition of the analog Lev and other computer and audiophiles discuss, or iis it just a the transference of an analogous piece of recorded music or file from media type to mediatype? not clear to me. what do you guys think?

I'm on a Mexican radio

Well this is my first blog on pirated airspace, I think my neighbor has a new wireless toy, and I'm reaping the benefits...only A fifty percent connection though so downloading anything larger than a few MB sucks...So copywriting, I've been banging my head to figure out what the most important aspect is and well I think there are many important aspects, the grassroots dilemma is critical, does the artist have a right to protect their work? Absolutely, whether it’s a Song or a poem, or a cartoon or a dissertation they have the right to be recognized and protected. Secondly, something cbd said in class Friday, struck me. Labels, copy right bozo’s, they’re the ones who buy the music, they pay the artist a hefty sum for the rights to play and distribute the music over the airwaves, however, they are not the sole proprietor, they are the acting agent, the contractor, or the muscle if you will, when a dispute is raised. So I think more discussion should be directed to the industrial giants who usurp rights, or are given agency from and by the artists to contract this work.

My question is, and I guess this is interface/copyright issue, is fire fox an open source browser, or is it just a very convenient browser interface? I am having some trouble getting through the ANTI MAC article, my goodness it’s dry, I like their explanation and reasons for flawed thinking and the “time has come and gone” idea for the reality metaphor, it hasn’t though has it? Things haven’t changed dramatically in the last ten years in fact, the only real differences as far as interface design in the (wimp) world is the esthetics. Perhaps there are some file transfer short cuts that have changed and I’m sure windows has come along was in the production of background services, but, I’m not really sure what has and what hasn’t grown.

Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

I love the freedom of expression book, I haven’t gotten to far yet but what I’ve already know is that people are protective, I mean that is what a copyright is protection for my stuff, inventions, processes, art, Ideas developed by me and used to make money, that’s the key term here, it’s about the almighty dollar, clams, “beenz”, Pay Per view. The truth, the hard truth of the matter is that everybody wants a piece of the pie. It seems, now don’t get me wrong, I want my own large bag O’ loot; and of course this is going to be a generalization, but the companies and individuals squabbling over what’s what are acting like selfish children, remember when want your brother or sister, respectively to play with your stuff and you, of course, wanted credit for the stuff, “that’s Mine”, or you can play with my Lego’s THAT way, you’re supposed to play with them this way, end of story. What you wanted was recognition and praise for the work you did, there was no money then, just fragile emotional needs. As we grew, the needs remained the same, after all, we’re human and humans are emotionally sensitive, internally stirring creatures, the thing that changed was our individual and collective power to protect our stuff. The Constitution gave us individual rights to pursue liberty and happiness; the dollar gave us the ego, the status quo and greed. People work for their money, yes, but they also what it easy. It seems we haven’t grown up very much yet, of course there are the givers and the takers, and sometimes the lines separating the givers and the takers are a bit blurred, however if we chose to give a bit extra and take a little less return on our dollar, then maybe the we would realize that our caregivers were not so full of shit when they accused us of being selfish.

Metadata Abstract

I have chosen metadata as my subject for English 480 writing Assignment, this is why. (To be continued) ten to twenty minutes pass. OK I’m Back.... Well Rachel made some good points in her networking blog, she postulates that because of the sheer size of the internet ubiquitous standards may not be possible. Good thinking Rachel, it is vast, like the Illinois prairie and how does one set standard work for the entire world of the internet, I have no idea, it sound like each network group is going to have a set of standards that are unique to their world, if one group cohabits with another standards are going to have to be elastic, people will have to adapt, evolve, and standards are no different, but back to standards later. I wondered the other day what makes my web page searchable, and why my Google adsense advertisements were not making any cents, sorry that was cheap!, So enters the metadata, Why is it important for e-business, and internet marketing? Is there a universal standard for the coding of metadata? Is Metadata important for the greater good of internet users at large? Can the entire internet be indexed, a library of web sites, or is the internet itself a library, which is just waiting to be wrangled into categorization? There are more questions to be answered

I printed the rest of the dive into accessibility stuff, and the more I read the more I see parallels between the standards argument and the accessibility issues. We talked about standards sapping creativity from a web site. the question what is more important, giving the web author freedom to reign supreme over all of the work he does, or conform to certain standards set down by organizations and committees? What is more important creativity or business?

In my humble opinion both are equally important. There is really no way to separate the two, there is always going to be a creative force behind the production of a visual medium, and since the web is an interactive visual medium, there will be a creative process behind the development of web sites. So there is always creativity in the building of such things. However, I have an e-business site, and I want my web site built in a certain way, then creative liberties taken with my site, without my approval will be discouraged. The idea of creative liberty has an even greater relevance with a company or institution that is creating a brand identity. The developer must create within the context and framework of the reigning standards organization and if he or she want to express their virtual liberties without the boundaries of the standards board, then let them go and built on their own plot of land, they are getting paid to do a job, if the job specifies to use blue paint on the border, and make sure there is a search engine on each page, then you are obligated to do follow the rules, if not, then let somebody else do the job.

If you are a punk and subscribe to the whatever, wherever, whenever school, get your own site, and flail away at it, but if you are contracted to do a job then do it.

Barista: “Isn’t it true that standards enforce creativity as well”

JM: “Yea your right, I guess?, the standard forces you to re-think the approach,.

Barista: “Standards develop resourcefulness.”

JM: “I haven’t thought of the inverse like that yet, I was only thinking that the standards are a constricting force, not an enrichment force”.

Barista: “Do you want another bianca maraschino grade latino press?”

JM: “sure, this is the last one though, Oh well look at it this way, if your going to build a house, the building standards are only there to make the place inhabitable, if they’re weren’t any standards we would all be living like that lady in the Mother Jones article, her walls leaking, her sky light installed upside down, and the bathtub that crashed into he living room, when full.

But the idea is that as long as there are codes and standards then you can build as big and tall and wide you like, without the worry that the walls are going to come crumbling down around you.”

JM: “(slurp), Jesus man you make the best white chocolate latino I have ever tasted.!?!”

Barista:“Cheaper than a gallon of gas too”

Oh about the parallels to accessibility, next time,