Nobody is faceless

Facebook, one of the most leading sites on the internet shows how the Web has developed just during a couple of years. The web used to be a way for scientist to share research; this first Web was found by Tim Berners-Lee 15 years ago, according to Wikipedia. Silicon Valley consultants call the new Web, the Web 2.0 and this is the kind of Web that we use today.

Science the new Web came around 2006 the Web not only became a way for scientist to share research, it became something much bigger. Now people use the Web more like a place to communicate.  Facebook, the site that has become popular during the last years now has members all over the world. I’ve got facebook and I can honestly say that it has become a part of my weekday, it’s a place where I’m able to keep me updated and keep in touch with old and new friends.  One important thing to mention is that  a friend on facebook is not always the same thing as a friend in the real life.  At facebook you are friend with people you hardly know and people you never met. And why is that?          I think it’s because it has become like a cool thing to try to have so many friends as possible at facebook, because that makes you look good and popular and you want people to have that look on of you, because nobody is faceless at facebook.

 I think facebook shows the big different with the new Web and the old Web, at the new Web people have become much more active on the internet, they share information about themselves and they upload and comment clips on youtube, write blogs s, basically, the Web has become more like a lifestyle than just a source where you can find information, and I think this is just the beginning of the revolution that has started.

Overall, the new Web is working as a place where you communicate with other people, and none is faceless here. And it think this is just the beginning of the big thing that has been started, and I don’t think that there is anyone that can foresee what the Web will be in 15 years, if we look what a big change it has been since Tim Bernes-Lee found the Web 15years ago.

 

Sources: Facebook dumbing friendships down?, By Neil Seeman

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Facebook+dumbing+friendships+down/1995877/story.html

              Time’s person of the year: You, by Lev Grossman

                 http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1569514,00.html

 

File sharing and copyright.

You’ve just found out that you only like one of the songs on the new CD that your favourite band has released, what do you do? Do you buy the CD with all songs, even though you just like one of them, or do you download it?

Good Copy Bad Copy is a documentary about copyright and culture in the context of Internet, peer-to-peer file sharing and other technological advances, directed by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke. In this documentary the discussion is about file sharing and copyright, and we get to hear interviews with different people and their opinions about the subject.

In “Good Copy, Bad copy” the producers and chiefs for the big different media companies discuss what to do about the file sharing and copyright problem, how will they get people to buy their products instead of download it?

I think that they need to focus more on the reason to this problem, why people chose to download instead of buy their products? I think the price is the real problem, who wants to pay for something that you can get for free? Now many finds these products that they choose to download very expensive and the prices of these products are rising the whole time.      

 For example, go to the cinema is one the things that has been much more expensive just during a short period. Now days many people consider go to the cinema is something that you do if you got some extra money, otherwise it’s too expensive. If the products were cheaper I think the number of people that chooses to download would fall.

Except from the price I also think that they should think about offering something that you don’t get if you chose to download your product. Therefore I think that the extra material on the DVD movies is a good idea, because you don’t get this if you chose to download the movie.

Overall I think that the real question is why people choose to download the products instead of buying it? And I think to stop file sharing and copyright they must start to solve this question and from that try to stop file sharing and copyright. Now I think if someone had just liked one of the songs on a CD should had download it, instead of buy the whole CD in a store.

My best friend is my computer.

Triumph of the nerds is a documentary, by Robert X. Cringley, telling the story of the Personal computer. After watching three episodes of Triumph of the nerds I really understood that I have got the nerds to thanks for everything. I wouldn’t be sitting here and writing on my computer if they weren’t for them.

In the first episode Cringley says, “The way we live work and communicate are today affected by computers”. It’s hard to think that the computers didn’t exist a couple years ago, because how did we survive without them today? To see how the personal computer has developed in such a short time as 20 years is really interesting; that a box is developed to an advanced product. I wonder if the founders, even called the nerds could foresee when they started creating that the computer would be what it is today?  

Today my computer is my  best friend, cause it allows me to do everything I want, play games, talk to my friends (even them who doesn’t live in Sweden), writing, watching movies, get information in just one click, etc.

 And all this thanks to a bunch of nerds.

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