What can I say? This growing world of connectivity in every aspect of its word has created a vast increase in the leak of information available to us as an individual. We cannot begin to understand how much data is uploaded everyday into the web in order for us as users to be able to read, share and review the different qualitative and quantitive values that we have been able to get our hooks on, being able to learn and develop ourselves intellectually and physically as you can get everything you want to know on it.

Twitter is one of the forms of information sharing that many web users and companies have learned to use in order to send out their information quickly and received short and quickly in a one in all method of different sources. With Twitter it has given people the opportunity to bulk up information from a bunch of different social figures, newspapers, intellectuals, gamers, athletes, chefs etc. there is a vast amount of information that has been given by the network, where you just have to be following the group in order to be informed by them. It is a package of a vast variety of different websites and groups that you can just follow and you will receive all the information you would want in one online software.

All these microblogging and social networking websites are all based on a double-edged sword basis. These companies and websites have created the amazing opportunity of unbiased and immense amount of different information for everything you want. You can become and expert on almost anything and be constantly updated everyday about everything that happens around the world. You get various amounts of information of different bias opinions for different types of news in order to get yourself the most unbiased conclusion for yourself, it enables the elimination of censorship on almost all types of information. There will always be some sort of filtering, but in short, the amount ultimately given to you is drastically reduced, given that you are researching from various sources; twitter makes it much easier as well to follow these kinds of information.

The downside of these inadequate factors is the abusive privacy invasion in our new world era. There is so much hacking produced through the web, that if your good enough, you can access almost anyone on the web. Also social behavior between people through social networking and online communication has hindered a vast majority of the population of how to communicate themselves properly in real life. The quantity of people hiding behind their screens not even communicating face to face is unimaginable and it scares me to know that so many of us do not even have the courage anymore to talk to people in that manner.

Twitter just like Facebook, Flickr, Youtube or any other social network, has helped us communicate globally our ideas and made it easier for people to share information, and expose themselves to the rest of world. The point where you have to be able to draw the line is the abuse of these networks and control yourself to use the web and these contents of information to your benefit and not give up your life on the web with them or abusing other users through the web. Consideration and moderation has to be the core ideologies, do not overdo the monsters.


Christopher Tombrink

Twitter http://twitter.com/
that growing social network of 1 liners on user's lives (whether you want to know or not!!) With celebrities such as Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher having an extremely public life online with their twitter diatribe between each other or Lilly Allen tweeting that shes giving up touring (thank goodness i hear you say!)Britney Spears twittering about her child being sick (i mean do we really need to know all this!) and is it really them tweeting? With the explosion of social media so too the explosion of weird and wonderful social media jobs. Britney Spears tweeter anybody? !!
Though of course there should be some kind of rule book or social etiquete to follow as i have learned, the new friend that tweets to you 20 times a day is more often than not going to seriously annoy rather than be a pleasurable experience.! A tweet a day people! than if a twitter convo. starts great but please don't keep tweeting all day and all night especially when you have nothing to say! (you know who you are mr joke a minite!!) Though its so very easy to unfollow somebody just as it is easy to follow them.
Once you get used to the limit of 140 charecters within your tweet you realise that life becomes faster, shorter, sweeter. I have been keeping upto date on all things election via Twitter and gauging what others think about anything at all really.

Janine Chave :)

Welcome to the Twitter world

Maybe is just me, but what is happening nowadays is something really strange for me.
We are living in really weird age of the time, an age where real life and social-communication networks are mixing together; always more people subscribe day by day in different social network as facebook or microblog as Twitter, and what is really happening is that people start a new life on the web, creating a profile and starting making friends and interacting with them, sharing discussions and communicate all day long, asking questions and even working.

My general opinion about this all world of social networks and interactive communication is a double face opinion; on one side I found it as an incredible opportunity and on the other side I just see it as a threat.

People in all the world is getting near to eachothers and more social active thanks to web communication, they are receiving and sending informations all the time, gaining knowledge and more social responsible. On the other hand, that I think is more important, they are creating their virtual reality, forgetting about the real life, and so you start seeing young generation all day in front of computer chatting and surfing the web, spending hours watching a screen and forgetting about the real world out of their home’s wall, where they really learn about life, and they interact face to face with people.

What i’m saing is that people sholud really think carefully about the social network use; is a big weapon if there is a smart and responsible mind behind.
The problem is not about Facebook, Twitter or other blog but just of the people’s use, people have to become more aware about the web communication, I ll continue looking at it as an incredible opportunity for a prosperous future of the human beings.

Gregorio Marangon

MY FIRST EXPERIENCE IN TWITTER:

My first impression of Twitter is that its really easy to use, when you are subscribing you’re followed step by step by the introduction program , which explain perfectly what you can do on this platform: how to follow the arguments in which you’re interested (dived in different categories), how to find your friends.
When you twitter account is active, you are on your profile and you can choose to follow someone or something.
If I had understand the way it works its more or less like this: when you send a message (Tweet), the notification of your Tweet is sent to your followers page. The followers who received the tweet have two options: they can answer to your message or they can share it with their followers (Retweet)
You have a settings page, where you can change the settings of your tweets, profile, template ecc.. there is also a tool for use twitter on your mobile!

Lorenzo,

Analysis of MIT YouTube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT#p/a

A faculty committee of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) proposed in 2000 to launch a program called “Open Course Ware” (OCW); the idea was to publish online MIT teaching materials and course content, and make it widely available to everyone for free.

With the help of some benefit foundation, MIT started its OCW program which had a big success: just in the following four years since the launch of the operation, the OCW materials have been accessed by 35 millions individuals from more than 220 different countries.

There are also more than 100 mirror site, locally hosted version of the OCW site, settled in low-bandwidth areas, especially in South Africa, were people have problems to found money for instruction.

The channel contains simulation, animation and videos of classroom lessons, in total there are 1800 different courses available. Other organization have worked for translate courses in other language, including Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese and Thai.

This open sharing initiative became an example and a model for other research institute, today there are more than 250 universities around the world who are doing their personal open course ware.

In the left column of the page we can find information about the website and the project itself. I think that it’s a very important social initiative, that’s going to have a big impact on the world of information and knowledge, empowering minds of thousands of people.

Lorenzo Rosso

Logic Pro is a program used by music programmers, musicians, technicians, any person in the music industry that needs to produce, record, master or just mess around to create the beautiful nature of this art that surrounds us everyday.

In order to better understand the topic here you need to understand why this program exists and why this is being written. I recently started myself learning how to use Logic Pro and tried to understand how to use the program, fortunately for me I sort of figured out the program in its basics, but I wanted to know more, so I went on a hunt to find out the secrets and undiscovered natures of this software. E.g.

In an almost failed attempt to find something, five minutes before going to sleep a friend hooks me up on Facebook with a guy from youtube, who had been doing these tutorials for over 3 years now. The man’s gateway name is ‘sflogicninja’, an absolute genius, probably not the best logic music composer but he knows exactly how to explain in a step by step story mode how to use the program, from simply using the loops and samples you are given with the program to designing and creating your own music, through phasers, mastering, producing, cutting, editing, tapping, mixing, everything you need as a musician will be on your Logic Pro.

His website http://www.youtube.com/user/SFLogicNinja#p/f/92/Ze01PixFc0I very simple, made through youtube but is very well organized, you just pop into uploads and look for what you need, you’ll definitely find it in there and if not he has his favorites where he mainly suggests about other tutorials that other users have been creating recommended by him.



I strongly recommend any user of this program or anyone that is interested to learn it, to settle in and listen to some of the things he has to say to us, because it really will improve the amount of effort you have to try yourself to use the program, saving you time in the future so you can directly get into squeezing the juice out of it from the beginning.

The web 2.0 has given us so much in these past few years, I recommend for any user of the internet to take advantage of it. You can pretty much get professional help for free if you look for it right, it is just a matter of trial and error with different users showcasing their ideas, and then taking the best out of each. This gives you variety and you will quickly learn that you are learning how to do things at least twice as fast compared to if you were to do it by yourself; use the beauty of this amazing development in our continuous growth as a society as it will maintain you in front of everything you wish to be of, as this hard and crazy world continues to grow.


Christopher Tombrink

Analysis of a YOUTUBE channel


Personal Channel : www.youtube.com/user/cveitch

The Channel that I choose to analyze is a personal Youtube channel created by Cveitch, real name Charles Torres Veitch, a young independent guy from U.K.

The main porpuse of his channel is to awake people minds and give explanations about what is really happening in our world, all the things that medias and television don’t wanna you to know and reporting, with his camera, real actions on the streets; actions like trying to interact with Police, in order to create a better realtionship between people and force Police ( something that nowadays is missing ), explaining how they should be always protecting the people and not the company or corporation interests.

What Charles is doing is something really actual and really interesting, we are in a era where people is beacoming more conscious about the world and wants to know what’s really going on outside our home’s walls.

Looking into his profile we discover that his channel has 2.268.978 total views, since 2006 when the channel was created, and has 15.582 subscribers. Maybe is not so much people but the difficulties of undertstanding of the topics and also the poeple ignorance make his channel really hard to follow and to get know to the people.

Videos are update almost everyday, 143 amateur videos involving him and action around U.K., subscribers are really actives in responding, asking questions and sending feedbacks-comments to Charles that is answering properly to almost any comments, creating a solid and good relationships with them, creating real group discussions on every topic.My personal opinion is that Charles is doing a really good job with the channel, he is creating something similar to Citizen Journalism, but real news, not the filtered ones of the tv.

Nowadays Web Communication is offering incredible opportunities to speak to the world and spread your opinions to anyone; in time like these, I see, still far away, a possibility of freedom of speech.

Gregorio Marangon