Net11 SP2 2009

"This approach to technology and information as ‘ ecologies’ is further explored in the following readings:
Rafael Capurro, Towards an Information Ecology. In: Irene Wormell (Ed.): Information and Quality. London: Taylor Graham 1990, 122-139.

Information Ecologies by Felix Stalder

As you read, think about the following questions – you may want to discuss with other students, or make notes in preparation for your concept project -

LOG ENTRY: make sure you include some reflections on these questions in your learning log:

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  how might the metaphor of an ‘ecology’ impact on the way you think about, understand or use the Internet? (Allen, M n.d)

Ecology by definition is the "relations between organisms and their environment"(Wordnet). In this case, we think of the internet as the environment and the users, information and communication as the organisms. And as Stalder states, "the very nature of the ecological environment is its connectedness" (Stalder, 1997). Stalder also talks of "nodes", thinking of these as individual sites he notes that while each one is different and unique, each one connects to other sites which ties them all together in one large "shared environment" all dependent on each other. I think this sums up the internet perfectly.

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  how are the concepts ‘information’ and ‘communication’ understood within the framework of an ‘information ecology’? (Allen, M n.d)

Stalder notes that "Information is not objective data, however, information is the relation that arises within the environment" (Stalder, 1997) and depending upon the environment of that information and how it is interpreted by the user will determine how or if, it is used for communication. One is relyant upon the other, without one there would be no need for the other.

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  why don’t we talk of a ‘communication ecology’? (Allen, M n.d)

As previous stated I don't believe one can exsist without the other, and for communication to begin there must first be information. So for anything further to exsist there first must be an "Information ecology".


Allen, M n.d, "Module Five: Info-Communication Concepts", Retrieved on August 13, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

Stalder, F 1997 "Information Ecology", Retrieved on August 13, 2009 From http://felix.openflows.com/html/infoeco.html

Photo from: www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078/

Concept # 33: Information & Attention

"In the era of the ‘attention economy’, readers and users of Internet information must be carefully craft, in their own minds, the kind of metadata which will – almost instinctively – ‘fit’ with the metadata of the information sources they want, so that – in the few brief moments of initial exchange, when a seeker of information encounters information being sought, rapid, effective judgements are made that ‘pay off’ in terms of further reading, accessing and saving."(Allen, n.d)

Web Usage Mining

“Getting information from the internet has been compared to drinking from a fire hydrant.”(Kapor,n.d) There are so many ‘things’ vying for our attention when we get online, from the site we’ve just opened to the emails being sent and received and then there are the ad’s on the site were browsing. Do they just appear there randomly? The site you’re viewing may have in fact undertaken “Web usage mining”. The ad’s you’re viewing may have been specifically targeted to you, particularly if you’ve registered your details and/or purchased from this site before. Much like the customer loyalty cards shoppers are given offline, the items you purchase, the amounts you spend and how often you login in are all valuable information. It gives the site owner valuable information on what particular demographics are purchasing or viewing, no longer does he need to show the same ad to all the users viewing his site, he can specifically show the ones that will interest each user. Web usage mining is not limited to a marketing perspective, since 1990 The University of Arizona have housed The Artificial Intelligence Lab which uses web mining techniques to spider the web looking for terrorist threats. It is important to note that Web mining is the gathering of Non personally identifying information, typically from a web server. In its simplest forms Web mining allows a sites creator to see; ·

“Domains and countries of site visitors
· Search engines, and keywords used to find the site
· Number of visits, and number of unique visitors
· Pages hits for each hour and day of week
· Most viewed, entry and exit pages
· Visits duration and last visits
· Operating system
· Browser used “(Jesus,M n.d)

Weather we realize it or not, chances are that your online actions have been analysed through Web Usage Mining. As an example, My Yahoo!, offers the ability to customise their homepage. You can do this by initially registering, then selecting the features that you would like to add or remove. My Yahoo!‘s privacy policy states that they will use your personal information in three ways:
· “to customise the advertising and content you see on our pages
· to fulfill your requests for certain products and services
· to contact you about specials and new products “(Yahoo, 2009)

The advancement of the internet means more and more in this definite “Attention Economy”(Davenport and Beck, 2001) that consumers have the upper hand. Everyone wants us to use their product or service. Using web mining techniques, the advertisements that are offered to online viewers can be relevant to their demographic. There seems no sense to be advertising a sleek road bike, if your user is a 60 year old woman. But replace the useless object with one that her demographic has a history of using then perhaps you have a customer, at the very least a better relationship with your users.

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Allen, M (n.d )Concepts Document, Retrieved on July 28, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

Davenport, T. H. & J. C. Beck (2001), The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 1-57851-441-X. Retrieved on July 28, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy#CITEREFDavenportBeck2001

Jesus, m(n.d) Web analytics: What, Who and How. Retrieved on July 28, 2009 from http://www.jesusmena.com/id61.htm

Mitch Kapor, variation of a quote by Jerome Weisner
(Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.) Retrieved on July 28, 2009 from http://www.quotegarden.com/internet.html
Yahoo!7 Privacy Policy; Information collection & use. Retrieved on July 208, 2009 from http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/au/yahoo/

Site # 1 LastFM LastFM http://www.last.fm/

The perfect example of Data mining. The banner on the front page states “Lastfm recommends music, video and concerts based on what you listen to”. Users have the ability to add music to their favourites list, each time this is done the song moves up the ‘Charts’. Users also have the ability to recommend music to their Lastfm friends, if their friends speak a language other than English, Lastfm is available in 12 languages. Members can create a widget to add to your social networking site to play the music you listen to. This is about as personal as you can get.
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Site # 2 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/

Upon registering at Facebook, you can personalise just about everything. The photo(s) you ad, the friends you allow and the updates you enter. The data you enter when you register is then used to select the ad’s that are shown to you, members can even give the ad’s a “thumbs up” or “ thumbs down” indicating which ad’s the users prefers to see, then more like it are generated. The applications members use are placed on their profile, in turn gather their own information and urge “ friends” to add the application to their own profile.
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Concept # 11 The relationship of data to meta-data

“Advanced Internet users learn to intuitively conceive of any document, file, message or communication as consisting of metadata and data. They then can explore the functions of various communications/information software looking for how that software can assist them in using metadata to enable sorting, processing or otherwise dealing with that data.”(allen, n.d)

Social Bookmarking & Tagging

Web 2.0 has been defined by Bart Decrem, one of the founders and former CEO of Flock, as the [1] “participatory Web”. Tagging is one of those participatory actions. The information we seek gets harder and harder to locate. User generated tagging hopes to improve our search results. Just as legitimate sites wish to improve their visibility in search results, spammers also seek this. This then becomes Meta Tag Abuse. In 2000, nearly 12,000 websites, some pornographic, were found to be “stuffing” their meta tags with trademarked product names which had nothing to do with the sites they were on. These were used to get traffic to their site. [2]“Where a web site without permission includes in its meta tags the trademarks of third parties, there is infringement of the trade marks”.
Does this mean that the current options of user generated tagging, where users can freely choose the tags they wish to use and a controlled vocabulary, where the [3]vocabulary is predefined by the author should be re-considered? Instead of allowing both, should there only be one option. Definite advantages exists for both methods, however I see a combined method as the better option. The trouble is, Not everyone sees things the same way, [4]“there is more than one way to describe something” , a user uploading photos of streetscape filled with vehicles, buildings & people may just tag it as “street”, perhaps a more useful set of tags may include types of vehicles (cars, trucks etc), buildings, people (walking, adult, child) . This then allows it to be filed in many categories. Delicious.com allows users to select from user generated tags & suggested tags. It allows for the use of tags that the user had not thought of, that would give the document more visibility. What then of the honest, unbiased opinions users tag their content with? I think this is an essential part of tagging that would be lost if only a controlled vocabulary existed. The most effective use of tagging is when all participants who access the content agree on the words & terms being used. This is particularly true when talking about users who speak a language other than English, user generated tagging or a combination of, still allows them to tag content in a way they that is useful to them. A controlled vocabulary system of tagging certainly has its place; however a combined method seems to have more use. In 2001, Cory Doctorow wrote a piece called “Metacrap: Putting the torch to the seven straw men of the meta – utopia.” He lists 7 reasons why he thinks user generated tagging won’t work:

1. People lie
2. People are lazy
3. People are stupid
4. Mission: Impossible -- know thyself
5. Schemas aren't neutral
6. Metrics influence results
7. There's more than one way to describe something

I’m certain 8 years later that this article is still current and the perfect example of why a combined system would have more effect and use.
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____________________________________________________________________ 1 Bart Decrem (2006-06-13). "Introducing Flock Beta 1". Flock official blog. http://www.flock.com/node/4500.%20Retrieved%20on%202007-01-13 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0#cite_ref-decrem_13-0 2
2 Out-Law.com. Retrieved on July 30, 2009 from http://www.out-law.com/page-1165 [3] Wikipedia. Retrieved on July 30, 2009 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary
[4] Doctorow, c August 26, 2001” Metacrap: Putting the tourch to the seven straw men of the meta – utopia” Retrieved on July 31, 2009 from http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
[5] Allen, M n.d "Concepts Document", Retrieved on July 28, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d
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Site #1 Delicious http://delicious.com/

Delicious is a social Bookmarking site. It’s free to join and very easy to use. It’s useful in the fact that it offers a combination approach to the tags that members use, users have the option to select system suggested tags or create the tags them self. Users can access their bookmarks from any computer in any country; they can share all, or some or none of their bookmarks. Users have the ability to search other users tags for content that interests them.The front pages shows the most recent bookmarks, and a list of popular tags is featured on the right hand side of the page. This site is very useful.
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Site # 2 Faviki http://www.faviki.com/

Faviki , a social bookmarking site, uses Common Tags, “... are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs”.For instance, saving a site about “twins” to my Faviki, I type in twins as the tag, I am then prompted to the type of twins (two babies), Twins (the movie), Minnesota twins (sport team). As I mouse over each option, I see a description from Wikipedia allowing me to select the correct tag. Next time I search for a tag, I know that I will get exactly what I am looking for because everyone is using the correct meaning of the tag. This site is extremely useful.
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Concept # 2 . Your audience's use of communication

“Informational exchange consists in the content of messages but also the uses (intended or unintended) to which the information is put”. (allen n.d)

Facebook & Identity theft

According to the Facebook.com [1]press room (Facebook Press Room 2009), of their 250 million registered users, more that 120 million users log into the profiles once a day. Each of those 250 million users has an average of 120 friends. The potential for your identity to be stolen is growing by the day. Facebook profiles can include information such as real names, the name of the city you live in, marital status & date of birth. In conjunction with the ‘flippant’ comments left in user’s wall comments a lot can be known about a person. In 2007, [2]Sophos research created a fake profile (Messmer,E 2007). The profile sent out 200 friend requests, of those requests they received:

· 82 responses
· 72 percent of those respondents divulging one or more e-mail address;
· 84 percent listing their full date of birth
· 87 percent providing details about education or work
· 78 percent listing their current address or location
· 23 percent giving their phone number
· 26 percent providing their instant messaging screen name

The everyday information you place in your profile can have great ramifications in the hands of the wrong person. Users should be careful with the types and amounts of information they let out. Users are lulled into a false sense of security because their profile is switched to allow only friends to see. However what if a “Friend” on your list had their account hacked into, the hackers has the information for (on average) 120 other “friends”.

[3]In January 2009, Bryan Rutberg's wall status changed to “Bryan NEEDS HELP URGENTLY!!!". Bryans account had been hacked; he was safe at home and in no danger. His entire friends list saw the plea, all were very concerned. One particular friend received a direct reply stating that Bryan had been “robbed at gun point in London and needed the money to get back to the United states”. Unfortunately the friend sent the money, $1143.00, to London. Never to be seen again.

Does this mean that we should remove all our details from Facebook? Or should we all exercise a little more caution when posting anything online. A quick check of my 39 friends (including myself) reveals that none were aware they could use current Facebook.com privacy setting to enhance their personal security or safety and that of their “friends” list. Facebook has taken steps to increase security; however it is up to us as advanced internet users to take precautions to protect our self.
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Site # 1 All Facebook – the unofficial Facebook Resource.
http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

I’m really pleased I found this [1]resource. It brought to light a lot of security that I had not thought of, the author Nick O’Neil steps out all the settings that users can implement. It is usually not until something happens that we all think about security .This article really highlights those dangers before they occur. Readers are invited to take some or all of the security measures. The comments further down the page ask great questions too, and one user points out that the default Facebook security is different in each country.
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[1] O’Neil, N(Febuary 2,2009) 10Privacy settings every Facebook user should know. Retrieved on August 2, 2009 from http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

Site # 2 Cybersmart http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/

Cybersmart is produced by the Australian Government. It targets young kids, kids, teens and parents and their online safety. Each section has tips related to the age group and includes games that further enhance the Cybersmart message. The parents section includes a section about the technology of today’s youth, resources to help parents understand online safety. This site provides an excellent resource for all internet users and should be referred to over time, as a refresher. This site also offers the opportunity to report online child exploitation, which has not been so easy in the past.

[1]Facebook.com(2009) Press room. Retrieved August 2, 2009 from http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
[2] Messmer, e (August 14, 2007) “Study; Facebook users easy targets for identity theft”. Retrieved on August 2, 2009 from http://www.macworld.com/article/59488/2007/08/facebook.html
[3] Sutter, j Carroll, j Febuary 6, 2009 “Fears of imposter increase on Facebook”. Retrieved on August 2, 2009 from http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/05/facebook.impostors/index.html
[4] O’Neil, N(Febuary 2,2009) 10Privacy settings every Facebook user should know. Retrieved on August 2, 2009 from http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/
[5]Cybersmart (2009) Australian Communications and Media Authority. Retrieved on August 3, 2009 from http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/
[6] Allen, M n.d "Concepts Document", Retrieved on July 28, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d
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Concept # 6. Reading the difference between 'surface' metadata and 'implied' metadata

Metadata and Computer Forensics

“While the header contains the 'surface' metadata, understanding email messages may require you to interpret the implied, hidden metadata cued into the body of email messages”. (Allen n.d)

Surface and implied metadata are now another tool in Computer forensics. Simply put, any document created, or application installed has its own metadata about the author, the computer it was created upon and the file type. If it is then re written, sent or saved on another computer it brings with it all of the aforementioned metadata and each secondary action creates and attaches the new metadata. Cyber crimes are illegal actions, typically perpetrated through a computer &/ network, and fall under such headings as fraud, blackmail, theft, forgery or embezzlement, child pornography and copyright infringement. What does this mean for you and I, who do not condone or conduct illegal activity?

In 2004, a 16 year old boy, Matt Bandy was charged with 9 counts of possessing child porn. Yahoo! had reported an instance when images classed as child pornography that was uploaded to a Yahoo! Group. The upload was claimed to have originated from the boys ip address.
Forensic examiner, Tami Loehrs accessed the computer and as detailed in a seven page report, listed (Bernstein, J 2006) the hard drive contained 200 viruses, a disabled antivirus software, no firewall, Trojan type spyware and suspicious "executable" program files that started running around the time images were transmitted. They now referred to the computer as a “zombie”, one that is actively controlled by others. And indeed,what better place to store your illegal content.

So if this can happen to innocents such as Matt Bandy, what does that mean for the real criminals? [1]In 2007, a registered sex offender posing as a 14 year old girl on MySpace started a chat to a young girl. After being found out and reported to police his computer was seized. Computer forensics revealed 257 child pornography still images & 37 movies files. Further forensics on the images and their metadata showed that the images had been sourced from the internet in May, 2007. This enabled the prosecution to prove that the images were not connected with previous child pornography charges, and thus he was convicted and jailed on new charges. Metadata was also used in the unfair dismissal charge.[2] The employee believed she has been sacked because she made a sexual harassment complaint, however metadata contained on an electronic internal memo showed that her name was included on a list of planned redundancies dated prior to the complaint and her being stood down.
Fortunately we have metadata, both surface and implied on our side. Computer forensics is helping to track down everything from spam, Nigerian scams to online child predators using the [3]DNA of the internet. Just as DNA at the scene of a crime can convict a criminal, it can equally prove their innocence.
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Site # 1 Australia Federal Police
http://www.afp.gov.au/national/e-crime/forensics.html

The Australian Federal Police is host to the Australian High Tech Crime Centre and is combined with the Virtual Global Task Force. The site outlines the directives of each of the units, certain outcomes and other agencies that are involved. The Australian Federal Police are at the forefront of Australia’s defences both online and off. The site is helpful in that it outlines each of the area’s it’s involved in and the laws pertaining to it. It also provides information on how to deal with crimes encountered online, and where to report it.
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Site # 2 Microsoft Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS)
http://www.microsoft.com/industry/publicsector/government/programs/CETsabout.mspx

In 2003, a Canadian police officer overwhelmed by in excess of 2 million child porn images sent an email directly to Bill Gates asking for his assistance. Seeing the need, Bill Gates forwarded the email onto Microsoft Canada. The end result was The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS).The system and its updates are donations from Microsoft and are now in the hands of the Australian Federal Police along with a dozen other countries. This allows law enforcement in other countries to access the content seized during other arrests to continue the hunt.
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[1]Department of Justice(March 23, 2009) MT. Washington man sentenced to 27 years imprisonment for violating federal child exploitation laws. Retrieved on August 4, 2009 from http://louisville.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/lo032309.htm
[2] Nagle, S (July 2004) Embedded Information in Electronic Documents: Why Metadata matters. Retrieved on August 4, 2009 from http://www.abanet.org/lpm/lpt/articles/ftr07044.html
[3] Howard, F ( August 28, 2008) Digital DNA. Retrieved on August 4, 2009 from http://www.it-director.com/content.php?cid=10694
[4] Allen, M n.d "Concepts Document", Retrieved on July 28, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"Choose your best 'source' or site from the three you used in the last task, then evaluate it according to the tutorial. In your own words, write an annotation for the source which could communicate to a reader both your 'judgement' of the site according to what you have learnt from the tutorial, and also the following information:the reliability and authority of the site / source / article the main ideas or subjects discussed in the article the purpose for which the site was written (this might include any apparent external interest, intellectual motivation or contextual information) " (Allen, M n.d)

"In the era of the ‘attention economy’, readers and users of Internet information must be carefully craft, in their own minds, the kind of metadata which will – almost instinctively – ‘fit’ with the metadata of the information sources they want, so that – in the few brief moments of initial exchange, when a seeker of information encounters information being sought, rapid, effective judgements are made that ‘pay off’ in terms of further reading, accessing and saving". (Allen, n.d)

The site I chose was Medical University of South Carolina

The Medical University of South Carolina was established 1824, their website offers extensive health related information from patient/visitor information to specific medical information, the purpose of this site is primarily Reference/Informational. The detailed information regarding Eczema includes what is eczema, the symptoms, the diagnosis, Eczema treatment and Eczema management. The site lists their sources and references as coming from a third party custom health care communications company and reviewed and edited by "MUSC expert faculty and staff". The site and it's authors, Medical University of South Carolina, offer credible information, written for the MUSC, and it's Hospital. The Medical University of South Carolina have taken responsibility for the site and their coverage looks great, the information pertaining to Eczema is the same. A link to the Newsroom shows that the site was last update on 23 July, 2009 with a press release for a federal grant for tissue research. Google shows an extensive list of linking sites showing that Medical University of South Carolina is indeed recognised.

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http://www.muschealth.com/gs/HealthTopic.aspx?action=showpage&pageid=P00008
http://www.muschealth.com/health_info/sourceref.htm

Compare your final analysis and annotation with the material you saved for the last task, and think about these questions :

In terms of your own future use, which 'body ' of information (ie. the original 'snapshot' of the site, or your own, annotated, analytical version) would be most useful to refer back to?

I think I would definitely refer back to my analytical, annotated version. It includes so much more information, I could easily gague from it if the site was likely to contain the type/style of information I was after.

Allen, M n.d, "Module Four: Using the infosphere: taking & organising", Retrieved on July 24, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"Organising search information task
First, choose the best three sources found in the previous task (and be aware all these sources and information can be contributing to your resource bank assignment!)

Using whatever software or tool you think appropriate, record the following information about those sites:

URL.
author,
institution,
blurb/ summary / screen shot (this can be a direct copy of an appropriate abstract or introductory paragraph on the site: but make sure you record and reference it as such)

Again, using any useful software you have downloaded, or utilising your existing software, record this information on your computer in the way that you think will be most useful to you in terms of preparing for your third assignment (that is, in terms of how easy you will find it to access, retrieve, understand, contextualise and recall why you saved it - and with what!). " (Allen, M n.d)


I'm a Delicious convert!

For this task I've chosen to record the websites (from the previous tasks) into my Delicious account. As requested I have the URL, Author, institution & Summary. I've chosen this method because I have all sorts of saved links that I've long ago forgotten why I saved them. Delicious lets me add 'Tags' , notes, a title and ofcourse the URL. I can record when and why it was saved.

"Taking the same key words of your last search (Eczema), think about how you would best search for the following:

• the biggest number of hits relating to these key words
• information most relevant to what you ACTUALLY wanted to look for!
• information coming only from university sources
• LOG ENTRY:Discuss your strategies with the class and record the exact search terms you used in your learning log " (Allen, M n.d)

Using Bing.com , Goolge.com & Ask.com as my 3 search engines. Ask.com was the first search engine I used, Google is the one I use mostly now and Bing is one that I have never used.

Firstly using "Eczema" (including the invertered commas), my largest number of hits was on Bing with 9,890,000 results, followed by Google with 6,550,000 and then Ask with 1,150,000.The top result is www.eczema.org.au

To gain information pertaining to exactly what I want: Non commercial & just the facts. I used the search terms eczema NOT commercial. The results were vaired over the three sites. I feel the most beneficial information came from Bing, it had no commercial ad/sites in the first page. Over half of the first page on Google and Ask were dedicated to paid advertisments. The second listing here was www.eczema.com.au

To gather information comming from Universities about Eczema I used the term 'Eczema AND university'. In this case, the results from google were far better, I suspect this is due to Google's 'Google Scholar' search engine. Bing had no journals or tertiary publications on the first page. Here is Googles link http://www.muschealth.com/gs/HealthTopic.aspx?action=showpage&pageid=P00008

Allen, M n.d, "Module Four: Using the infosphere: taking & organising", Retrieved on July 23, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

What to do:


1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing. My first choice is Google.com My search term is Eczema

LOG ENTRY:record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log

The first hit on my Google.com results page is a paid ad from Blackmores.com.au . The next ad is from http://www.eczema.com.au/

2. Using copernicus or similar, set it up to search at least three search engines (including one that will search the 'deep web') and repeat eactly the same search

I had Copernic set to use 14 search engines, with the noteable absense of Google (?)

LOG ENTRY:record the number of hits in your learning log, and compare to your first search.

The number of hits from Google.com was 6,530,000, the hits from Copernic were 48

Copernics first it was wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema

What differences did you notice? The obvious difference that I first noticed was the number of results each search returned. I would have assumed that because Copernic was using 14 search engines that it would return the larger amount. That was not the cause in this instance, Goolge.com returned the larger amount.

Why? I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the absense of Google from the list of search engines. It does strike me as odd that Google is not on the list, but Bing is.

Which search, on first glance gave you the most promising results? Google.com gave the most promising results in this instance.

3. save at least the first 5 hits of both searches

Copernic Search:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema
2. http://www.skincarephysicians.com/eczemanet/whatIs.html
3. http://www.eczema.org.au/
4. http://www.nationaleczema.org/
5. http://www.eczema.org/

Google.com Search:

1. Blackmores.com.au
2. http://www.eczema.com.au/
3. http://www.eczema.org.au/
4. www.eczema.org.au/info/facts.html
5. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema
   

Allen, M n.d, "Module Four: Using the infosphere: taking & organising", Retrieved on July 22, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"1: Try downloading at least two unfamiliar programs (if you do not already have them: for those who have most or all, offer alternatives, or make sure you have the most up-to-date copy). Find out what the programs offer and spend a bit of time familiarising yourself with their operation (do not spend too much time on this, as some of these programs will be utilised in later tasks)." (Allen, M n.d)


From the list of 6 different "Tools for using the web", I already had 4, 1 (Offline Browser/Copier) I had no need for so my option is down to 'Search managers' which I downloaded. I went to Copernic and downloaded their Copernic Agent Basic

It was hassle free to download and install. And upon using it for the first time, it looks great. I look forward to the opportunity to using it again. Since the search will use 12 search engines in total, does this mean that my Google search bar is redundent?

Copernic has installed itself into my toolbar, however upon attempting to do a generic search I've had an error, twice. An error occured while opening the Copernic Agent results bar, and needs all windows closed down and to try again, did I mention this has happened twice?

When all else fails, Reboot. This corrected the problem :-) Just to test out how this works, I opened to browsers. In the first window I entered 'Net11' into my google search bar. In the second I entered 'Net11' into the Copernic search toolbar. Copernic froze, I closed the browser and started again, frozen again.

Copernic toolbar search disabled.

Going directly to the start menu and access Copernic that way I opened the program, entered the Net11 search and also into the google search toolbar on a second browser. My results pages are returned for both applications. Clicking through Copernic I can see that I can filter my results according to Status, Region, Domain. I can also have the broken links highlighted - How handy is that! With Google, I can filter by video, forum, review. Recent events, Past 24 hours, past week or past year.

At this stage, the only emprovement I can see would be the inclussion of Google in their search engines, I can't fathom why it's not included.

I think the initial trouble I had, and then the test searches I ran have both left a bad taste in my mouth towards Copernic. I'm pretty sure this will be deleted when I no longer need it for my Net11 studies. Overall I am happy with the results I receive via Google, both number and quality wise - Copernice does not exceed that.

Allen, M n.d, "Module Four: Using the infosphere: taking & organising", Retrieved on July 22, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

TASK:
"Take a look at the Internet Communications Diigo social bookmarking list we have set up for you as a bookmark site - compared to a html version think about the format and usability of a website/html written list with this same information." (Allen, M n.d)

Looking at the two sites, the visual differences are obvious. The Diigo site is well set out, with lots of white space surrounding each bookmark allowing users to clearly read and locate the required infomation. In regards to the useability, the site has lots of "meaningful links", the site is interactive in that the user can arrange the links by tags, join the site and participate by adding your own bookmarks.

In stark contrast is the HTML version, lots of links and text all looking much the same as the next lot of link and text. Useability would be hampered on the html version of the site, there is no participation or anyway to sort the links and the only way to search would be Ctrl+F (Find). On the other hand, this site is quick to load with it lack of graphics.

What applications or "services" do you think are web 2.0 indicative?

• Flickr
• tagging
• social networks
• RSS
• Blogging

Allen, M n.d, "Module Three: Contributing to the infosphere: e-writing?", Retrieved on July 21, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"LOG ENTRY:In your learning log, record your thoughts. Consider various uses for blogs such as citizen journalism and personal blogging. Have you seen in your net travels any interesting uses for blogs? This blog entry is an opportunity to tell us what you really think of blogging!"(Allen, M n.d)

Blogging for good, Not evil - There are a great many positive uses for Blogs. Educational, informational, entertaining and personal. Ofcourse, those that you choose to follow will have content that you enjoy, weather that be family related, craft, statistics, technology, sporting or news. I enjoy the time I spend on blogs, and I spend a lot :-) I love craft blogs, quilting/sewing. One of my favorite blogs is a compilation of blogs, all along the same theme, new things listed daily and categorised. It's called One Pretty Thing

The evil side of blogging is starting to emerge, anyone can start a blog and use any name they like. This could be the platform they use to defame, cyber bully or libel someone. Courtney Love (Chigagotribune.com 2009) was recently sued by a clothing designer after she claimed in her blog and on Twitter, that the designer was a theif, liar & drug dealer. "This year, a court awarded $129,794 to an Ohio woman after a blogger said her property was haunted, reports Media Law". http://www.newsu.org/ are offering a free course especially for Bloggers, Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Online Publishers

____________________________________________________________________ Allen, M n.d "Module Three: Contributing to the infosphere: e-writing?", Retrieved on July21, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/yourmoney/sns-yourmoney-0705blogs,0,5069752.story

http://www.newsu.org/courses/course_detail.aspx?id=nwsu_medialaw08

"First, visit the Copyright Website, which provides a good overview of copyright issues related to the net, with information on ‘fair use’ and ‘public domains’. Please be reminded that this is an international link due to the global nature of the Internet - but feel free to look into Australian Internet Copyright law - it pays to keep global, international and national law in mind!
Next, go to the Curtin home page and find the policy documents that relate to copyright and IP in IT use.
Drawing on these sources, consider these questions:
have you used images or words on your web page or website that contravene copyright laws?
Would you be in breach of copyright if you put the Curtin logo at the top of your web page for an assignment? This information may be difficult to find so be prepared for a search and some independent thought! " (Allen, M n.d)


This task required me to got to the curtin homepage and locate the policy documents relating to Copyright.

The questions we are to ask ourselves are:

• have you used images or words on your web page or website that contravene copyright laws?

My short answer would be No. I don't believe that I have as the page is Non - commercial and for Educational purposes. This wouild fall under the 'Fair use' policy. Also, the website is not 'live' in the fact that anyone can see it.

However if I were to upload the website, add some banner ad's to act as income then I would indeed be in breach of copyright.

• Would you be in breach of copyright if you put the Curtin logo at the top of your web page for an assignment?

No, as above, the use of the logo for an asignment purposes would come under the 'Fair use' policy as it would be for educational purposes.

I can see from looking at the many documents I did to locate the infomation that there are many grey area's, many possible area's in which an accidental breach of copyright could happen. When using anything that is not yours for publication, caution should be excersized. Stating where items were sourced from, citing correctly, seeking permission where requested to and linking back are all perfect ways to 'Err on the side of caution'.

Allen, M n.d, "Module Three: Contributing to the infosphere: e-writing?" Retrieved on July 20, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"Optional ‘standards’ task:
Make a summary of what you believe are the 5 most important ‘rules’ for writing online. Think about any differences between the articles: for example, is the advice in Nielsen’s paper -- written in 1997 – still current?" (Allen, M n.d)

I really liked Dennis G. Jerz's take on the top 5 online writing & design tips.

• Lead with your best stuff - This makes perfect sense, why wouldn't you want to capture your readers attention from the very start.
• Inform with meaningful links - If your reader doesn't 'get' what your talking about chances are they will navigate away, providing links will solve this. For the visually impared reader, how you write those links is crucial, this comes back to useability.
• Employ consistent navigation - Putting a "Home" link in the top left corner of every page. There is nothing worse than having to navigate through hoops and over jumps to get through a website. If the site doesn't provide the 'typical' navigational links then a user will simply close the page and move on.
• Prefer simple designs - A page that loads quickly, regardless of the speed of your internet connection is important, if it takes too long again the user will navigate away. Keep images small, reduce pixels where you can. Jerz says "fancy design is no replacement for good content".
• Write scanable text - The use of subheading, meaningful links and bullet point lists are all essential to keep the reader on your site. Reducing the word count, highlighting keywords draw the readers eye to the infomation they seek.

Nielsons paper is today ,more than ever still current. According to Technorati, there are on average 900,000 new blog posts in any 24 hour period, then there are the Twitters, the new sites that erupt daily, and the social networking sites. It seems there are alot more people writting for the web these days, each and everyone of them wants to be noticed more than the blog before. They all want that edge that will get them a new reader, a new follower, their brand recognised or revenue from click through ad's.

Allen, M n.d "Module Three: Contributing to the infosphere: e-writing?" Retrieved on July 20, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

It's driving me nuts! I'm not sure what everyone else is doing but each time I have a spare minute I check in on the discussion boards, or add to any assignments I have going and not being able to login is freaking me out. I know we were warned but it's just such a long time. I wonder why this couldn't be done during the uni holidays. I wish I had prepared better than I had.

"Begin by opening up the program Notepad and working through the following basic but fun tutorial for a step-by-step guide to writing html. Don't forget to save your html document as .html, because Notepad might want to save it as a text file:

So, you want to make a Web Page! by Joe Barta is where you will begin your html journey! It has 26 lessons but they are all short and broken into easy steps - its a great tutorial and I am sure you will have fun writing your first web page. When you have finished your page, you may consider playing around with the content - can you make changes to your pages content that may be useful for an Internet Basics related help site? Your list could contain helpful sites, or helpful hints? Make it brief though as your time will be put into the tutorial, the skills it has to teach you and reflecting upon your experience"s." (Allen, M n.d)


Wow! I loved this task and I had so much fun, maybe too much fun. What a sense of achievment creating a page from scratch with just words (and a few symbols).



First of all here is the page:

The icons on the left side of the page (curtin uni, Blogger, Skype & pagetutor.com) all work & click through to their respective sites. The ladybug icon is an email me link.

I probably spent much longer on this than I should have but I just couldn't stop - Many things were removed/replaced before I ended up with the above image.

HTML was much easier than I thought it would be and I think I'd like to explore it more.

Allen, M n.d "Module Three: Contributing to the infosphere; e-writing?" Retrieved on June 20, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"TASK OPTION - Other chat options:MSN, YahooChat, SecondLife or imvu (sign up is laborious in Second life but the dedicated can give it a try )
imvu is a virtual chat space and fast to start, download and learn. MSN and Yahoo chat both are text based systems which are very easy to implement and learn.
Please do not purchase an account from any site for the benefit of this unit - all virtual sites have guest account systems for non paying customers - please use that for now.
For any of these options you choose Arrange with other students in the unit to meet up for a chat Record your answer and reflections in your learning log
LOG ENTRY: Record your outcome and reflections of your experiences and thoughts on this task in your learning log" (Allen, M n.d)


I have ICQ on my pc, and have done ever since I started using the net 15 years ago. I used it both at home and as part of my work day. It was an essential inter office communication tool. Back in the dial up days my mum used it on her pc to contact me when I was online.

I've never chatted in a virtual world, so I headed off to second life where without any trouble I created an account, activated it and then downloaded the viewer. I'm now well on my way to neglecting the kids while I dress up my avatar. Unfortunately it wasn't as initially user friendly as I had hoped and I quickly lost interest - actually I got stuck in a room and couldn't get out! Then while trying to get out I lost myself . Perhaps if I was more into chatting I'd be more inclined to stick around and try and work it out.

I thought I'd give IMVU a go while I was here, I registered & it seems a lot quicker that secondlife at this stage, I downloaded and installed and realised that IMVU is much easier to navigate. I was chatted up by an apparent employee of the Saudi Arabia ministry of agricultur only to be abandonded when he realised my age and marital status . I also really liked the design of IMVU over secondlife.

"LOG ENTRY: Record your outcome and reflections of your experiences and thoughts on this task in your learning log" (Allen, M n.d)

Took a little to find everyone, then I found it confusing in regards to who was talking (and some times about what). I think I still prefer ICQ and one on one chats.

Interesting task!

Allen, M n.d "Module Two: Communicating in the infosphere" Retrieved on June 18, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"You may want to read a comparison of different communication types at How Stuff Works Think about the following questions (it may help to discuss them with other students on the discussion board) " (Allen, M n.d)

• 
  What are the pros and cons of email lists versus discussion boards?
• 
  Are there certain kinds of communication or purposes more suited to one than the other?
  
• Record your conclusions in your learning log

In my experience, lists can be useful, entertaining & informative. The can be equally useless, offensive & annoying. Myearl experiences with list were the latter, I'd signed up to mostly un-moderated groups which meant anyone could join and post anything they wanted to - usually spam or highly offensive material.

My list subscriptions have now been refined, I now belong to only two. The first one is my local area freecycle, a group that enables me to recycle my unwanted goods, take up an offer of someone elses goods or ask specifically for something I need that someone else has and no longer requires - for free. If your not a member of your local group (and it's worldwide), I suggest you join, One man's trash is anothers treasure as they say.

My second subscription is to a Fabric co op, a group of like minded adults into sewing that purchase fabric/products at wholesale prices and split the product/fabric. I'm able to ask for the opinions on fabric/sewing supplies and receive answers and get dramatically cheaper items.

I have the option to receive individual emails, or a daily digest containin all the emails from that list for that day or not to receive any mail but insted go to the site to read all updates.

For me these lists are great, there is never any ' off topic' talk and never any spam.

Allen, M n.d "Module Two: Communicating in the infosphere" Retrieved on June 18, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

"The first email task consists of undertaking this Email Tutorial to ensure you understand (or have reviewed) all the basic email functions. Make sure to take the little 'quiz' at the end of each 'lesson', and to try out functions such as setting up folders and filters in your own email account. Then, answer the following series of 'reflective questions', and record your answers in your learning log."(Allen, M n.d)

I have been using email for atleast the past 15 years and I have to admit that I glanced at the reading and then zoomed to the task - How wrong I was. I only wish I had of read this a couple of years ago when I worked in a customer suport role for an adult personals website and dealt with 400+ emails on a daily basis. This task would have enabled me to deal with them so much better - Hind sight!

Anyway, onto the questions:

1. What information about a user's email, the origin of a message, and the path it took, can you glean from an email message? (Allen, M n.d)

• The senders eamil gives me an idea who it is from. Say for instance the email was from accounts@mytelephonecompany.com.au , I'd know that the email was from my telephone company, in Australia and from the accounts department.
• The subject line may alert me to is importance, or lack of and if it was perhaps spam (junk mail). It could also indicate if it was an on going conversation by the presense of RE: ... or if the email was forwarded onto me, indicated by FWD:
• The body of the email would give me the infomation in which to decide how I would need to respond, if at all.
• I could also see the time & date the email was sent

2. In what cases would you find it useful to use the 'cc', 'bcc' and 'reply all functions of email? (Allen, M n.d)

Using my role as the newsletter editor as an example, I use the 'CC' function when dealing with a an issue that involves a few people. The 'cc' allows me to write one email and keep several people aware of what is going on. Similarly, the 'Reply all' feature allows me to write one email (with or without attatchments) and send to several people without having the individually enter email address, possibly containing typos or leaving out addresses entirely.

I use the 'BCC' feature when emailing out the newsletter, it hides the email address's and keep the email header less cluttered.

3. In what ways can you ensure that an attachment you send will be easily opened by the receiver? (Allen, M n.d)

When sending an attatchment, I could ensure it was easily encoded, decoded & opened by all I should send it as an ASCII text or also known as plain text

4. What sorts of filters or rules do you have set up, and for what purpose? (Allen, M n.d)

Currently I have very few filters set up. The few that I do have set up are usually in response to spam so that it is delivered straight to the junk mail folder on not the inbox. Having said that, I have several ideas for new filters/rules after reading module 2.

5. How have you organised the folder structure of your email and why? (Allen, M n.d)

My current email set up includes the folders:

• Inbox
• Deleted
• sent mail
• junk mail
• drafts
• a persoanl folder
• club newsletter folder
• club website folder

The inbox is for all mail, except those with filters/rules in place. After downloading the emails, the inbox is then sorted manually, emails that relate to club newsletter are moved to the 'Newsletter' folder, mail relating to the club website are moved to the 'Website' folder and personal mail is moved to the 'Personal' folder. This is done so that if need be I can refer to an email quickly by determaning what folder it would be in.

I really enjoyed this task, I thought I knew just about everything to do with email. I have now set up a new email account on my new laptop and intend to put into practice the things learnt in this module.

Allen, M n.d " Module two: Communicating in the infosphere" Retrieved on June 18, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

I stayed up way past bedtime to fisinish the PING task, woke up the next morning with excruciating pain which upon inspection by my GP was declared to be appedicitis. I was then sent straight to the hospital where the offending item was removed with 3 days rest in hospital.

Back to it now :-)

Melissa

"Ping the Blackboard site and compare the time with the time taken to ping from the net tools site. Is it less or more than you expected?
Why?" (Allen, M n.d)

The ping task was very quick. As suggested I used the http://network-tools.com/ site and the results were:

"What to do;

For ease of use, and because free versions of internet tools are constantly changing this task only requires you to visit a site. (If however you would like to explore further, follow the instructions below).
First visit this site explaining traceroute
Next find a site that provides the common internet tools (traceroute, ping) some examples include http://centralops.net/co/ or http://network- tools.com/
Using the traceroute tool, answer the following questions:
Traceroute from the chosen site to curtin.edu.au - cut and paste the entire list of 'hops' from there to Curtin.
How many ‘hops’ are there?
what is the average time in milliseconds from the tools site to the curtin server?"(Allen, M n.d)

This task required me to do a Traceroute from the selected site to curtin.edu.au

I first tried the site http://centralops.net/



I entered the required info, and the results returned.

The answers for this example are 18 hops and the ip address is 134.7.179.56
267ms was the average time


The next site on my list was http://network-tools.com/ where I returned similar results






17 hops this time, and the ip address is ofcourser 134.7.179.56
259ms was the average time

I also used with windows comand prompt, it was slightly different to the previous 2 examples.
14 hops with the ip address 134.7.179.56
71ms was the average time

For this tool I needed to go via START>ALL PROGRAMS>ACCESSORIES and then right click on the COMMAND PROMPT and select RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR

I then typed tracert curtin.edu.au, clicked enter



Obviously it was much quicker from the NSW/VIC border to curtin than from USA

I started the internet tools taks by visting the link provided with blackboard http://computer.howstuffworks.com/router5.htmThe how stuff works people really speak my language, I enjoy and more, importantly understand their articles. So after finishing reading I googled 'traceróute', the top result was from http://www.traceroute.org/ where I selected the country Australia. This took me to a list of sites to use, I selected the top one, Telstra (http://www.telstra.net/cgi-bin/trace)I entered curtin.edu.au into the destination box. My results were:traceroute to curtin.edu.au (134.7.179.56), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 vlan250.lon-service6.Melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.2.177) 0.33 ms 0.337 ms 0.256 ms 2 TenGigabitEthernet0-12-0-2.exi-core1.Melbourne.telstra.net (203.50.80.1) 0.503 ms 0.4 ms 0.384 ms 3 POS0-0-0-0.way-core4.Adelaide.telstra.net (203.50.6.190) 14.983 ms 14.87 ms 14.768 ms 4 POS0-0-0-0.pie-core1.Perth.telstra.net (203.50.6.214) 45.977 ms 45.666 ms 45.727 ms 5 TenGigabitEthernet9-2.wel19.Perth.telstra.net (203.50.115.29) 45.509 ms 45.562 ms 45.591 ms 6 optus6.lnk.telstra.net (139.130.159.18) 44.231 ms 44.15 ms 44.132 ms 7 * * * 8 61.88.226.115 (61.88.226.115) 44.703 ms 44.757 ms 44.715 ms 9 AARNET.o6ssc76fe.optus.net.au (61.88.166.134) 44.523 ms 44.8 ms 44.56 ms10 ge-1-0-3.bb1.a.per.aarnet.net.au (202.158.198.1) 44.81 ms 44.821 ms 44.716 ms11 gigabitethernet0.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au (202.158.198.178) 46.573 ms 46.438 ms 46.763 ms12 gw1.er1.curtin.cpe.aarnet.net.au (202.158.198.186) 45.401 ms 44.988 ms 44.861 ms13 vl7.b309-bs-1.net.curtin.edu.au (134.7.16.169) 48.186 ms 47.629 ms 47.499 ms14 te2-4-b309-cr.net.curtin.edu.au (134.7.16.46) 46.548 ms 46.32 ms 45.595 ms15 te1-1.b309-sr.net.curtin.edu.au (134.7.248.65) 46.273 ms 46.629 ms 46.033 ms16 * * *17 * * *18 * * *19 * * *20 * * *21 In total, there were 30 hops max.The average time in milliseconds from http://www.traceroute.org/ to curtin.edu.au was The ip address for the hostname curtin.edu.au is 134.7.179.56I also found http://member.dnsstuff.com/pages/help/traceroute.php really useful in interpretting the results.

Allen, M n.d. "Module one: Introduction to internet communications", Retrieved on June 1, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

The next task in module # 1 is FTP

"What to do;

First you need an FTP client for your computer. The two we recommend are FileZilla (for Windows - free) and Fetch (for Macs - free). Download and install and then explore one for your system
PC: FileZilla FileZilla Download pageMac: Fetch Fetch Download page
For help, make sure you check out the the help files for either program and consult the programs website. For general help on what ftp is you can take a look at aQuick Introduction to FTP its a great general intro to ftp and would be useful for both mac and pc users alike
Next: You are to ftp to recall.curtin.edu.au . You will use anonymous login. When there:
Look at the directory structure.
Find the file called README
Then download the file, look at it and answer the following question
"according to the readme file, '_______ MATTERS' - what word goes in the blank?". "(allen, m n.d)

I've used FTP both in my previous job and a volunteer position, so this task was not taxing at all. After downloading the file, I first of all noticed that it is very differnt in looks to WS_FTP, it didn't take me long to gather my bearings, locate & downloading the file named README


My answer is CAPITALIZATION

Allen, m n.d, "Module one: Introduction to internet communications", Retrieved on May 31, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d

Module 1
Task # 1: Telnet

My copy came as part of my operating system (Vista Home premium). To access it I typed 'telnet''into the search area within the ''start'' button on my laptop. Once the window opened I typed "open library.deakin.edu.au''. Connection was a very quick 2 seconds. My stumble block this far was the next screen after connecting to the library at Deakin, it asked what kind of terminal I was using: VT100 or NCSA VT100 and to select one. After a google and visit to wikipedia I decided that VT100 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vt100-adventure.jpg was not what I was using and selected the NCSA VT100. The rest was quick and hassle free, and I found it very interesting. I had heard of, but never used Telnet before.

The bit of fun at the end was impressive, however had I been a star wars fan I would have been blown away. The pictures reminded me of typing class back in the 80's, made by using keys such as 'x', O' & spaces. Technology and graphics have sure come along way.

Allen, M n.d "Module 1: Introduction to internet Communications" Retrieved on May 30, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_18825_1&content_id=_985240_1

I've been hanging out all week for Blackboard to be updated with my courses. I'm so eager to start, I'm so eager to excell. I logged on this afternoon to find that NET11 details are there and that was it, I hit the ground running.

So this was my first task, to start a blog that will track my learning for net11. Done.

Here is my first task:
"In your learning log, record your first entry considering the topic "top five tips for new bloggers" - what are your top 5 tips? "(Allen, M n.d)

1. Decide on your content & audience - Mine will be as a learning log as part of my NET11 uni studies
2. Choose the format in which you want to present it - I chose blogger as I was familiar with it
3. Keep personal details out of it - remembering the web is a big place
4. Keep the blog updated regularly - atleast once a week in this case
5. Browse other blogs with similar content - it's great for inspiration & attracting readers

Melissa

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