Before we dive right in, a quick introduction; I am a final year IS student at SMU and go by the name of Ankit. I am presently working as a research assistant on 3 different projects and just glad to find enough time to contribute to this blog as one of half dozen or so I started at some point in time.
Lets wrap up some of the discussions we had in class last time, here are a few of the definitions that make sense to me in the context of this class:
GroundSwell is the ability of the crowds to use the tools and garner the collective power to voice their opinion and be heard.
Web 2.0 (for the purpose of this course) may be defined as: The interactive web; [anything (which is a part of the web) that enables conversations / provides a feedback mechanism through opinions, options and/or behavior]
A blog (in the context of this class) is a medium to express personal opinion (through text, images, videos, interactive applets etc) and usually provides for a means to gather feedback on these opinions from the masses.
Do you think I got that right or do you have very varying opinions? Either way, I'd like to hear from you, so comment away!
Ok and now for the others stuff:
Tip of the post: If you're on a mac and using blogger, you can get yourself the blo3gger dashboard widget and blog right from your dashboard. Where you ask may you find this mythical widget, why right here :: http://www.google.com/macwidgets/
Just click the Download now button and you're good to go for those quick posts, without the hassle of launching a web browser or logging in with you user name and password!Random thing I did this week: I wrote a shell script from scratch that checks if my external Hard Disk is connected and depending on that queries IMDB for ratings and comments for all the movies in my unseen movies folder. Finally it displays the results on my desktop.
Ping me if you want a copy ^_^ ... Stilling looking for ideas for other things to show on the desktop, suggestions welcomed. (I already have uptime, ram usage, process activity, internet configurations and calendar).
Final word: Google, Summer of Code was fun!
2 comments:
ping (for the copy) how about writing a script that tells you every hour or so that you need a break :P
@Satya done & done ... I had that script, not very helpful, disrupts the movies, the games and other stuff keeping me busy!
Anyways, thanks for dropping by, new post up soon.
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