Day 3 + Task 3

Part 1

The lecture today was very interesting to me because it was talking about something that we use everyday such as Facebook, twitter and youtube. the lecture was about the New Media and the Internet studies. The new Media such as the virtual communities which is when people cary on public discussions to form webs of personal relationships. Another example of the new media is the individual identity which suggest that the internet has become a significant social laboratory for experimenting with the constructions and reconstructions of self that characterize post-modem life in its virtual reality such as the users try to be older or younger.

The Web 2.0 is very important theme of social media. It was a notion found by Tim O'reilly and his friends to develop the web technology and make it more interactive and provide web services and for businesses. This services allowed people to participate such as read, write and create video and photo albums online. There are many examples of the web 2.0 such as blogs websites, youtube, twitter and Facebook. Most of these websites are free for public, however, they do businesses when they collect all the informations that they need to attract the user attention in advertisements and promotions. These websites use "Attention Economy" or "Economy of Accumulation" to make money from the subscribers.

Part 2

The Scavenger Hunt questions:-

1. What did Alan Turing wear while riding his bicycle around Bletchley Park?

- a gas mask simply to avoid hay fever (from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212910/How- Britain-drove-greatest-genius-Alan-Turing-suicide--just-gay.html#ixzz0YGW0r4s2) using altavista.com

2. On what date did two computers first communicate with each other? Where were they?

- On Sept. 2, 1969, two computers exchanged meaningless data in the first test of Arpanet in UCLA,an experimental military network (from http://scpr.org/news/2009/09/02/internets- history-tracked-codrescu) using altavisa.com

3. What is Bill Gates’ birthday and what age was he when he sold his first software?

- Born: 28 October 1955 (from http://www.answers.com/topic/bill-gates)

- By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time tabling system for his high school, for $4,200 (from http://www.tv.com/bill-gates/person/405954/trivia.html)

using yahoo.com

4. Where was the World Wide Web invented?

- The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990. While working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) (From http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/inventedweb.html) using yahoo.com

5. How does the power of the computer you are working on now compare with the power of a personal computer from 30 years ago?

- In 1982, Intel released the 80286 processor . It was also a 16-bit CPU, but could handle up to 16 megabytes of RAM. The 286 is the processor that introduced the idea of "protected mode," meaning that a PC could run multiple programs at once without overloading. In the late 80s, Intel released the 80386, a 32-bit processor. (From http://www.ehow.com/about_5379425_history-processor-speeds.html) using altavista.com

- My 2008 MacBook has2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed ( From http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html)

6. What is the weight of the largest parsnip ever grown?

- the heaviest ever parsnip at 5.9kg. ( from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- 1211262/Top-plots-The-super-sized-vegetables-trumped-string-world-records-Britains- prestigious-gardening-show.html?ITO=1490) using altavista.com

7. When did Queensland become a state and why is the Tweed River in New South Wales?

- Queen Victoria gave her approval and signed Letters Patent on June 6 1859 to establish the new colony of Queensland (from http://www.qld.gov.au/about-queensland/history/) using Ask.com

8. What was the weather like in south-east Queensland on 17 November 1954?

- State wide stream rises were reported in the third week of the month resulting from the heavy widespread rains during this period (from http://www.bom.gov.au/hydro/flood/qld/fld_history/floodsum_1950.shtml) using yahoo.com

9. Why is is Lord Byron still remembered in Venice?
10. What band did Sirhan Chapman play in and what is his real name?

- The Black Assassins, using Ask.com

Task 2

1. How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?

- They use Page Rank systems. the system results from a "ballot" among all the other pages on the World Wide Web about how important a page is. A hyperlink to a page counts as a vote of support. The PageRank of a page is defined recursively and depends on the number and PageRank metric of all pages that link to it. (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Page+Rank)

2-What are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?

- My favorite search engines is google because the quality of the results, the accuracy and the simple homepage. In addition, google have specialized search for example google news, scholars, books, maps and blogs and others