I saw this Talk by Eli Pariser about how Facebook and Google manipulate without consent the information you are exposed to on the internet.
It’s great if you are interested in the politics of the web and the amount of control that companies like Facebook and Google have over information that we as users freely give them, although they would palm it off by saying ‘it’s relevant information targeted at you.’ what they are in fact doing is editing the information we are offered. The user builds the mould with their likes, dislikes, hobbies and interests and are then restricted within it.
While looking at the vehicle of information i came across this article, at first the well designed data visualisation caught my eye but the article itself is an interesting read.
The article is from Baekdal.com and is titled Where is everyone? it gives data about the way people interact with information.
Because i have been researching this area to see such an easy to interpret graph is great but the information in the article is also to a high standard.
It is interesting to see how the access to information has evolved over the years and how it is possibly going to develop in the next few years.
As part of artefact 6 I looked into the Twitter application programming interface (API) and i began by looking into how it works and then looked at a few tutorials. The best tutorial on this subject is “Add Twitter to your blog (step-by-step)” writen by Remy Sharp. I folloed the tutorial and modified minor ellements and then styled it so it would fit in with my site. Saying “look to the right” will be made redundant after the next post but my twitter feed is located in the right sidebar. I also created a simple “follow me on Twitter” button which is used as text replacement using CSS.
While looking at virtual reality technology for research for the current project I saw this article on sciencedaily.com and I was intrigued as to what it could be. To really get it you should read the full article but it looks into why the Internet is sometimes slow, websites go down for unknown reasons this article posses the question: Are Internet ‘black holes’ to blame?
