i think i agreed with everything you said johnmark haha. The idea of a facebook being a "bureaucracy" is so true and the way it has evolved actually makes sense to the way the internet is being portrayed today. The cool thing about facebook is that it shifted with the new web culture, but also kept in tact the original design for facebook, unlike the way myspace became so ridiculously overwhelmed.

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Although as a whole I would agree that these two video games are not social but on the other hand I think there can be certain situations and anecdotes that prove otherwise. Personally, I believe that those two video games were tools for social interaction for me. I grew close to my cluster in my dorm my freshman year, by playing networked Halo 2 on our floor. We not only had headsets to communicate with each other but also between games we would meet out in the hall and celebrate our victories or complain about our defeats to our fellow cluster mates. Counter Strike had a less social effect on me, but I did used to play Counsterstrike with some of my good friends and communicate over our headsets. (nwithers)

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As long as people talk about personal computers, at least in this generation , it will automatically be linked to the Mac. The reason is because other computer companies all advertised their laptops as personal computers, but never included any specific type of "personal" design that made them different from any other computer. I agree with Brett, the target audience does take a toll on who the commercial is actually trying to reach. But HP is actually trying to make their "personal computers" more technologically friendly, while also attempting to advertise a, in my POV, a "cool business computer". haha it does actually seem like a marketing scheme. But sorry, until you build a relationship wth your PC the way Mac users do, your computer just....isnt personal

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Wow, there are a whole lot of games on that list I haven't even heard of!

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This page wasn't really necessary because I went ahead and made the Morphable Faces link a direct link to the site but I cannot figure out how to delete this page so if any of you know how to do that just go ahead and feel free to delete it.

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Could we clearly label the dates of the questions please?

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I have used the Prelinger before to find old media for class presentations and discussions, and its true, it has lots of interesting stuff. I'm a little worried that a place like this will eventually fold, however. As a privately funded archive, if the money ever runs out, where will all this stuff go?

I suppose this is the same problem any privately funded archive of anything has, but it seems especially acute when the materials archived are represented numerically in a database. I have not looked into how extensively the stuff is "backed up" on physical media, but it is an interesting question to consider.

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This question has been on my mind but I haven't been able to get on here till now...
In class, Brett said that film is considered analog but that Manovich would classify it as digital since it is hundreds of thousands of captured shots that are played at an incredible speed. So, now lets switch from video cameras to actual cameras. If digital cameras are, as the name indicates, digital, then are the "other" cameras that use film analog? Or are they digital since they use film and Manovich considers the use of film to be an indicator of a digital medium?

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back in the day life was rough. if i needed to call one of my friends, i'd have to travel downstairs to a piece of paper that was taped to the side of the refrigerator by the telephone. let me tell ya, that was quite a bit of work...i mean kids nowadays just don't realize how lucky they have it...getting cellphones in middle and high school. without much effort you can store and save hundreds of contacts, then no matter how far you are away from that community fridge, your contacts are only a couple clicks away. that's the making of a pretty convenient network if you ask me. i actually hate cellphones...of course they are convenient, but perhaps can this super convenience be interpreted as a form of social imprisonment? or @ least a test of loyalties. i know i'm putting myself out in dangerous territory right now, but how often do you ignore calls from some people, then a minute later answer one from someone you don't mind talking to? (i hope my mother won't read this). i'm just glad i don't have to walk 10 miles in the snow uphill both ways to school every morning. moral of the story: JOIN THE NETWORK!

I know this wasn't really a good example of networks/networking...but i had to go to the sprint store today (must be on my mind)
but i think this site has serious potential...i don't know about the rest of you, but i sure do enjoy talking to myself. makes for a good network. i realize this isn't exactly a forum, but posts that are mostly mindless are a lot of fun. there even more fun with more participants...but you know, what else do i have better to do @ 3 in the morning other than reading those articles for the class called New Media of something....this is quite obviously a profuctive use of time.

seriously, think about how many different networks we are all involved in...quite fascinating..we should share. networking is good...who knows it might get you a well paying job in the future...if you're into that sort of thing.

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So I'm in Heritage right now so it's kind of polluting my brain with unnecessary information but I definitely made a connection with all the mess when I read Shenk's "Data Smog" article.
Every day I talk to my dad, he mentions how the working class doesn't have time to stand up for themselves and revolt against the current government for using our taxes on things other than what benefits the taxpayer. I think this idea and Shenk's complaints have a lot in common.
Some people's jobs (a.k.a. the rich people) include things like taking clients to play golf and "negotiating" over drinks. Everyone else who most likely has one job or another only to pay the bills is struggling just to keep up with the stack at work that never seems to end.
Not only is this data smog, that never ends and is, for the most part, useless information, keeping us from having silent time to ourselves but it is also the one thing (arguable) that is keeping the working class from standing up for ourselves and overthrowing (is changing a more gentle word) the government. I think when we find a way to process or at the very least, control the non-stop flow of information, we will also be able to focus on the other things in life that are hindering happiness and satisfaction from everyone's life. We will never have the time to sit down and analyze or observe what exactly is going on around us until we know how to reduce the flow of incoming information.

(Basically I agree with Shenk but for different consequential reasons.)

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