Well I just posted some comments on a couple members of the other class we’ll be working with. Though this by far isn’t the first time I’ve posted comments on something, it felt kind of odd that I was commenting on something school related when I had no clue of the person was that I was commenting to. Usually when I make a comment it’s either to someone I have no connections with or it’s someone I know personally or from school. In this instance it was actually rather unique to me. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Thursday, February 8, 2007
My Class duties
My Electronic Communications class has just started their main project, a City Blog web site. In all honesty I have no clue as to what I’ll be doing for this project. Though we do have a basic timeline set up, our exact tasks are still unclear to me. If I had to guess as to the type of job or jobs I’d be doing, I’d say something along the lines of proofreading and or refinement. I would guess that it would be my job to go over everything in detail and make sure everything is what we want it to be. With a project like this, I consider it extremely important to watch the details. I also don’t mean just with the site but with any writing that might be done such as agreements we may need to make regarding submissions and posts. We’re going to have to be very exact and thorough with those so as to avoid any type of legal trouble. As for the design, we’ll need to test everything and run it through its paces to make sure it works like we want it to. If something doesn’t work, look, or just plain feel right then it will probably be my job to work with it till it does. This site is going to need a lot of refinement and I believe it will be part of my job to do that refinement. In a nutshell, my job as I believe it will be to go over our work and look for any mistakes, errors, and/or things that simply do not seem to be working.
In terms of time constraints and deadlines, that’s a tricky matter with this specific job. For one, many of the proof reading work I might be doing will either be of my own work or someone else’s. This very likely means one or both of two things. Either I’ll be working with others to proof read as they go and or I’ll be doing it after they completed a version. I would do my job, show it to them and ask them if there’s anything else they might want to have done, if so, repeat. This basically means that my schedule will be closely tied to others as well as limiting myself. I’d need to have time to make the corrections before the deadline. This puts pressure on others to get whatever their working on done reasonably before the deadline and send it to me for whatever corrections need to be made, if any. It also puts pressure on me to have the thing corrected and sent back in a reasonable amount of time as well. Since I tend to do things right away to get them done and out of the way, I’m not too worried about myself. Plus my schedule does give me some open time to take care of these things. However, I’m not too sure of other people’s schedules and thus I don’t know when they’d be able to send me their work. I guess that is something that me and my class will need to work out before we really get into this project otherwise it might cause some problems.
In terms of time constraints and deadlines, that’s a tricky matter with this specific job. For one, many of the proof reading work I might be doing will either be of my own work or someone else’s. This very likely means one or both of two things. Either I’ll be working with others to proof read as they go and or I’ll be doing it after they completed a version. I would do my job, show it to them and ask them if there’s anything else they might want to have done, if so, repeat. This basically means that my schedule will be closely tied to others as well as limiting myself. I’d need to have time to make the corrections before the deadline. This puts pressure on others to get whatever their working on done reasonably before the deadline and send it to me for whatever corrections need to be made, if any. It also puts pressure on me to have the thing corrected and sent back in a reasonable amount of time as well. Since I tend to do things right away to get them done and out of the way, I’m not too worried about myself. Plus my schedule does give me some open time to take care of these things. However, I’m not too sure of other people’s schedules and thus I don’t know when they’d be able to send me their work. I guess that is something that me and my class will need to work out before we really get into this project otherwise it might cause some problems.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Cyborgs Man and/or Machine?
I’ve just read an article concerning Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto” and it got me thinking. If you think about it, living things and machines are not that different. Take me for example, an average human. Like machines I need a certain type of energy source to function, namely food. If I were to try and process something else, like mulch or something I wouldn’t be able to do much, besides get really sick. Also, like machines I need to move around otherwise I fall apart just as a little used piece of equipment falls into disrepair. However, on the flip side of that I am different from a machine. For one thing, a machine doesn’t care what kind of fuel it uses so long as it’s compatible. I on the other hand dislike strict vegetarian foods even if they are healthy. This comes from a very bad experience concerning a vegetarian pizza. In any case, organic and inorganic, man and machine, just how different are they?
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