Blog 6

What are the key points/terms from Jenkins? How do they (or do they) connect with the key points from Weinberger?

There were three main points Jenkins wanted to focus on through out his book. He looks at the relationships between three concepts-media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence. Media convergence just means that content is now able to intertwine itself among many different devices. No longer do we need a "book" to read a book. Participatory culture looks at how media producers and consumers now have different roles, where instead of looking at the two as separates, think of them as one; but following a new set of "rules". And finally, collective intelligence, looking at how the power of a collection of information from different sources from all over the globe. I don't really see how these point connect with Weinberger, where he talks about different types of new organizational techniques.

Blog 5

Weinberger, relying on German philosopher Heidegger, says that "the meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world" (170). First, describe what he means by this. Second, explain how this is relevant to the third order of order. Third, draw/sketch/photoshop the following: choose a song that is important to you in some way. Draw the implicit web of meanings that make this song important to you. That is, make the implicit explicit. Ask yourself: what would a computer need to know in order to understand the relevance of this song in my life? (yes, a computer)

When the philosopher Heidegger, says that "the meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world" I believe he is trying to explain how each and everything we use in this world has some sort of process of formation before becoming the final result. In the example he used, the hammer, has all different parts that make up its uses. From the tree that the handle is made of, to the nails needed to make a hammer what it really is, Heidegger looks at these "items" from a very interesting angle.

This theory may be somewhat relevant to his third order, where we are "externalizing meaning". Most content and metadata is digitized these days so searching for particular items in large database is becoming easier to find due to the numerous amount of other "things" connected in someway to your query.

A song that is important to me would have to be Fake Empire by The National. I first heard this song a few summers ago, and I just felt like this song really represents the youth of Pullman (being a life long Pullman local).

(Picture coming soon..scanner problems)