Week 10- Information Management

Week 10- Blog 10 Friday 9th May 2008

Morning Lecture:
The morning lecture was all about Information Management and using technology for accessing and organising information. We reviewed an from article from the BBC named Warnings of Internet Overload and Dr. Cripps asked us a few questions such as listing three main points about it and what we think information overload is.


Tutorial:
The first task we were asked to complete was to visit the site http://www.inette.com/aibtinette/favoritesI.html and complete the tutorial on saving favourites and bookmarks. Then we had to use the information in the tutorial to set up a favourites list that has three folders in it, each with at least two websites marked as favourites.



The next task we were asked to do was to read Negroponte's famous "Being Digital" archive online, and create a short review about it and see if some of his information is relevant today:

I believe Negroponte's ideas are still relevant, as he has outlined the pro’s and con’s of both arguments and they are still issues that are relevant in today’s society. The comment about the "digital media and how its self may not be worth $200 but the files and documents contained within it are priceless". I think that he has touched up on some very relevant and interesting information that can be linked to things even to this day, even though he has written it about 13 years ago the pro's and con's of atoms compared to bits are still true today.

ATOMS
Pro’s.
-they are easy to protect.
-difficult to chage, meaning that the information still remains factual.
-difficult to replicate.

Con’s
-they are bulky, such as books and big reports.
-they are costly to reproduce.*they are difficult to change, meaning that the informaiton can not be eaisly updated.
-they are difficult to distribute.

BITS
Pro's
-they are flexible
-cheap to run and exicute.
-easy to edit, and update factual information.
-easy to mass produce, meaning that they can be reproduced to convey to a wide array of media.

Con’s.
-there may be privacy issues
-authenticy issues may arise due to the fact they are easily changed and edited.

Readings Summary:
The online readings provided outlines on the fact that young people are not entirley thinking for them selves these days, and the internet is a big contribution to this as it supplies them with irrelevant ideas and information.
http://www.fno.org/text/grazing.html

We also had the BBC video on knowledge management and the web.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7200000/newsid_7209800?redirect=7209805.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&asb=1