This week has been a very busy one! My lifestream has been very much in use commenting on the visual artifacts through my colleagues blogs. I had some issues when posting comments on Flickr and youtube because these didn’t show in my lifestream. Once I noticed I added these comments to their blogs as well so they did appear. The artifacts have been great – some incredibly imaginative and creative people on this course. I was pleased that I went text free on my artifact, but some chose to use text to great supporting affect.
On the rest of my lifestream, I have had a couple of great RSS feeds coming through this week including a podcast of a radio show on the World service called digital planet which included an interview about studying the Internet (web science) – which will probably be quite useful in the next block. This programme also discussed the case of a law firm slapping an injunction on a newspaper to stop the publication of a question asked in Parliament. This injunction was useless when the question was blogged and twittered around the world – this demonstrates the democratization of Internet media as discussed by Hand in the core reading in week 1, but it could be a dangerous thing in the ‘wrong’ hands.
So could Lifelogging; a concept that I discovered yesterday where you video your whole life with a camera hung around your neck. I don’t know about democratizing, it may simply bore us to death!
(Update – 07/12/09 – the links to Digital Planet have all been removed as the website now appears to be unavailable)
Tags: Hand, lifestream, visual artifact