Comments

Comments from this week, maybe a bit late:

http://lostscribe459.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-7-muddiest-points.html?showComment=1288548418904#c1670622886336089087

http://iandtupitt.blogspot.com/2010/10/reading-notes-for-111.html?showComment=1288548668466#c2415067922999300795

Muddy Points

Still no muddy points. 

Reading

As the first 2 readings covered basically the same ideas, this will be a ^short entry.

These were some of the most useful readings so far.  Sadly, I know very little about HTML, and creating websites.  The first two readings helped me a lot.  I know HTML when I see it, and knew how to do the little things, like inserting links and images, but these were very informative.  On top of being informative, they were very easy to read and understand.  I liked that we could follow each lesson and try it ourselves.

The second reading was a bit more difficult to understand, mainly because I have no experience having to use CSS.  The guide was very informative though, and will stay in my bookmarks so that I can go back to reference it in the future.

I'm trying not to use the tools in blogger to change font sizes, I'm trying to use my new HTML skills.

Readings

The howstuffworks.com reading was actually very interesting to me. A lot of us take for granted that the internet "just works."  We often don't think about how or why it works.  I've learned what all of the acronyms (HTTP, IP, DNS, URL, etc.) stood for long ago, but I've forgotten them as the years have gone by.  As our last set of readings showed us, networks are everywhere now, and are completely simple to set up in one's own home.  This reading reminded me what a network really was, and what it really takes to make it work.

The ILS reading was interesting for me, as a library employee.  I've had experience working with a few of the ILSs that the article mentions, Sirsi Dynix and Millenium.  Right now I work a lot with the Voyager ILS.  The article is correct in that librarians often don't think about the ILS, because it is generally not viewed by the public.  Most of the librarians in the library that I work for wouldn't even know how to use one, to be quite honest.  They have, for the most part, very ugly GUIs and aren't very flexible.  But, I do think that they do the job that are tasked to them.  They make MARC records very easy to read, and make editing and adding/subtracting record easy as well.  I don't know enough about the innovations in the ILS world to comment on that part, but I do understand the need because, as I said, they are very clunky and unintuitive.

The Brin and Page talk was very interesting to listen to. Probably the most interesting part to me though, was thinking about how much has changed in the last 6+ years that this was filmed.  Google was a relative baby in the internet game at this point, but was already huge.  I'd like to see an updated version of a talk with the two founders. 

Muddy points fasttrack

No muddy points from last weekend's lecture.

Comments

http://lostscribe459.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-7-readings.html?showComment=1287709547654#c4927098265106678477

http://elviaarroyo.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-7-internet-and-www-technologies.html?showComment=1287709791357#c1885491082640374191

Assignment 4

My CiteULike link:

http://www.citeulike.org/user/mer7/library

OE: Online Education
GS: Google Scholar
CUL: CiteULike