Week 5 Information Management 29/3/07

This screen shot is for Week 5 Workshop 5 Information Management 29/3/07
This week involved going on to the net and Adding some favourite websites into folders. Then putting a screen shot of our favourite websites into our blog. I had two folders one in which I put things that I love ie Frizzle Chooks and Siamese cats and the other one things that relate to uni courses ie Building Materials of the future.

After reading "Negroponte's famous "being digital". It defines the hard and soft digital storage systems as atoms for hard copy i.e. paper,laptops, computers and bits as soft copy i.e. info on screen, commands you can ask you computer to perform, email messaging. It made me think what the pro and cons are about the digital information storage systems opposed to traditional books.

The advantages of the digital information storage systems are, you don't have heavy parcels being shipped around the world at quite considerable expense. The delivery of information by digital technology is almost instant. Corrections can be made without physically changing anything. Information that is on websites is very recent and can be updated at a faster rate than books, which need to be rewritten and republished which can take a couple of years.


Particularly for me, I find reading off the screen really difficult. Reading books is a much more relaxing activity than reading off screen. Curling up on a sofa reading is a special pleasure. Books are much easier to look through. You don't need batteries or electricity to read them.

I found this article really interesting, it was fascinating to read someones point of view using an unusual concept of explanation.

This weeks lecture and notes were basically about different types of information file formats. The article we read used átoms and bits' to describe software and hardware. The article talked about advantages and disadvantages of each.

Lecture also gave info on how to organize and retrieve information from your computer using
i) file extensions
ii) folders/directories
iii) search functions
iv) search engines