Mobile Posting on My Blog spot! (like phone novels)

Hey guys, I found out that blog spot has the option of posting via text message from cell phones. It's exactly like phone novels, so I thought I'd share. It's really simple and quick to set up. Here's how:

First go to your dashboard. Where it gives the title "Manage Blogs" there should be a little cell phone icon; click on it. Now just follow the directions given and text away! (All you have to do is send a code to the phone number provided via a text message.)

Postings may also be done via e-mail.

I may include this example in my hypertext because it's the same basic idea of phone novels, which is apparently more popular than I thought!

Blog 20-Schematic structure for web-essay

I know exactly what I want my web page to look like but it's kind of hard to know if I will be able to do that when I can't see the page I'm going to be working on. Does anyone know the web address we're going to be using? Like the program or whatever? Please, leave me a comment and let me know.

I want to do a linear with scrolling. Kind of like how Wikipedia has that little box of topics and you can click on the topic you want, taking you right to the text. All the text is on the same page, but you can scroll down or up very easily-with just one click. I also want pictures/images that appeal to my audience. I was thinking about real people instead of cartoons. I think this will be beneficial for my particular topic (phone novels).

Another idea I was thinking instead of the linear/scrolling with nodes is a page with tabs. So I would have the topics broken down into parts with a subject word on each tab. This might be too much clicking around fo rmy user so I kind of am straying from the idea. Any opinions?

I would really like to see the details of the web page I'm going to be creating, like the backround color, font, etc.

I guess I'll just wait until class tomorrow and ask Prof. Chandler to see what she says unless someone could let me know before. Until then, I'm going to try to edit my hyertext essay so it's perfect. Prf Chandler gave not so good of a grade because I wasn't really researching I guess. IDK, we'll see what happens tomorrow when I have my editted essay. I'll be posting the changed of my hypertext essay soon. Thanks.

Blog 18-Attending Patterns

1. Tpyes of media I engage/use/read on a daily basis include: my cellphone, computer, radio, and t.v. When I was 5, I watched t.v. and listened to whatever my parents wanted on the radio. The television I watched at 5, is very different than the televsion I watched today. At 5 years old, I watched My Little Pony, David the Knome, and other cartoons. As I grew older, at age 10, I upgraded my televsion programs to shows like Lassie and used the television set to play Nintendo games. I even started to listen to music on my own. Maybe I was a little older than 10, but I remember the first cd I ever bought was 311. My dad, brother, and I went into a CD store and I had no clue what was going on. I remember just following my brother around pretending to look at cds like he was. He handed me a 311 cd and said "This cd is awsome" so I asked my dad if he would get it for me and he did. At 15 or a little before then, I started to use the computer. My friend Amanda and I would go on AOL for hours. We thought it was fun to go into chat rooms and surf the web. Amanda and I also played Sonic the Hedgehog for hours. Now, I use the computer mostly for schoolwork or to pay a bill. I play Xbox, which has an Ethernet cable so I can play live. Looking back, I can see how my use of media went from playful to serious. Even with the videogames, Amanda and I would play Sega just for fun but now it seems I play Halo2 so seriously. I mean, when I was younger I watched silly cartoons but now I watch movies which have a real plot, a problem and a solution. (If that makes any sense).

2. The following is the mediums I use with the amount of time I spend using it:

cellphone-5hours/day(I have a really good Internet connection on my cell so I do some schoolwork on my phone or research I have to do. Sometimes I even blog for this class on it)

radio-2.5hours/day (whenever I'm driving)

computer-3hours/day(depending on schoolwork)

t.v.-4hrs/day

3. How I associate media with performing the following tasks:

math/calculation-based homework- sometimes I use my cellphone if I don't have a calculator handy or I may use the computer calculator.
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read assignments- I have a Shakespeare class, so I look up sparknotes to give me an analysis on the readings. I even found a modern translation on the web called No Fear Shakespeare that I read instead of my textbook. If I dont understand what I'm reading I'll look it up on the Internet. If I do not have access to a computer I'll look it up on my cellphone-either way, I'm using the Internet. When I'm reading, I usually have the t.v. on. I don't know why or what got me into the habit of having the t.v. on and my dad always yelled at me for it, but it's just something I do. I don't even pay attention to the t.v. either!
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compose a paper- definately the computer. I use Microsoft Word and the Interent to write a paper. Microsoft Word helps me with all the wonderful tools available like spell check, the types of fonts/styles, clipart, etc.
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study for an exam- I may look up some topics I don't fully understand but to study I mostly stick to my class notes, handouts the professor gives out, and text book. When I study I usually have the t.v. on. It sounds distracting but it acutally helps me focus or so I think.
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conduct research/ find references- Computer for sure. The Internet is, without a doubt, the main type of media I choose to do my research. There are so many places to look so it's definately the best and fastest in my opinion. I usually do a Google search and then explore the websites given. Next, I type in a different assimilation of words to see if anything new pops up.
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4. I use media in my everyday taks. For instance:

driving- I always have the radio on when I'm driving. Who doesn't? Sometime sI'll pop in a cd to the cd player and listen to that. Every morning however, I listen to Z100 when I'm driving to school. It's definately part of my routine. Sometimes I text or talk on my cellphone even though I know I shouldn't.
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eating a meal by myself- I always eat watching t.v. or when I'm on the computer. Mostly though, I am watchng t.v. Watching t.v. with my meal or snack makes me feel relaxed. It's great.
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eating with family/friends- When I'm with my friends we watch t.v. and eat too, usually a movie. With my family we do the same although usually it's a television show or the news. The only time I don't watch t.v. and eat is at a resturant or on a big holiday like Christmas, but even on holidays my family usually plays music or has the radio on.
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household chores- I usually have the t.v. on when I'm doing my chores and when I go into another room I'll blast the setero really loud until I come back and then I'll continue to watch the t.v. When I wash my car I blast my stereo so I can hear it from my garage. When I cook I have the t.v. on downstairs and in my room with the same channel. This way as I'm cooking I can watch what I want and when I go upstairs to eat, the t.v. is already set to what I was watching downstairs so I don't miss anything.
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5. I barely have any free time. I always seem to be busy. However, when I do have free time, I like to relax. I love to lunge out in comfortable clothes and watch a good movie. I also like to loook through clothing magazines while I watch t.v. shows like Rock of Love or I Love Money on VH1.
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Totals

School activities= 12
living/household activities= 11
relaxation activites= 7

Average of attending=10

6. I thought I would mostly likely use hyper attention doing household activities and deep attention doing schoolwork. Although I have the t.v. on, I focus only on my work. However, under analysis I realize I am focused on many things at once because the t.v. is on and I'm fliiping through my notebooks,text books, etc. I actually am pratcing hyper attention as my scoring relfects. Overall, I multitask with almost everything I do, even driving or relaxing! The only way I can explain this is that maybe with distractions around me, I tend to try to focus more on what I am trying to do. Or maybe I just get bored easily. I'm not sure.

Math calulation and writing a paper had the lowest numbers of all the activities listed. I think this is because I really have to focus when I'm doing either of those things. It's kind of hard to calculate numbers and do something else. Ironically, math is my worst subject. Mayeb I should consider multitasking to improve my grades. Lol

I definately have the most consistent style while eating. I'm not sure why this is. Maybe it's how I was brought up or maybe it's just because I really enjoy eating and watching t.v. It's kind of weird to eat by yourself or with others in silence anyway. Even at the movies people eat popcorn, candy, nachos, etc. I think it's something in the American culture really.

7. I would characterize myself in terms of pattern of attending as a hyper attentive person. I thought of myself as a deep attentive person with my schoolwork however this is not necessarily the case. I knew I was a major multitasker but I never looked at everything in this way. I can now see patterns for how I go about certain taks and see that I do them in similar ways every time. Just because someone is hyper attentive does not necessarily mean it's a bad thing. In fact i've noticed that areas where I am not hyper attentive I acually do the worst. I'm npt sp sure it has anything to do with multi taksing but it's worth a shot to experiment to see if anything changes!

Blog 19 -Free post

As you all know, I am doing my hypertext on phone novels. Well, on the phone novel website I saw that there's a $1,000 cash prize for the best phone novel with 20 chpaters due by July 2009. I just thought someone might be interested. My 17th post explains how to work the text messaging with phone novels. You could even e-mail instead of texting, not to mention use the website directly.


I've learned a lot from this class so far. Obviously, phone novels for one. I took an interest for the phone novels as soon as I saw the article. It just amazed me for some reason and I had to know more. I've learned the difference between hyperattention and deep attention as well as my habits/tendencies of attending with everyday taks such as homework, driving, and household activites. The theories from some of the articles really got me thinking and opened my eyes to perspectives I would have never, ever thought about. For example, the theory where producers become users by using their program and users become producers when they add to the program (like with myspace/facebook and Wikipedia edits). I look at Wikipedia in a different light thanks to this class. I seriously never knew that anyone could add to the Wikipedia. I really thought it was set in stone and a completely reliable refrence. Now, I check on the article refrences to be sure. The Wikipedia assignment made me feel important (since my post is still up) and smart. I think the style Professor Chandler has us doing is really cool. It's something different which is nice for a change, Instead of writing in a boring notebook, we get to post on our personalized blog and even look at each other's blog, leaving comments and such. The comments can be really useful. Instead of just getting the Professor's feedback, we can get a whole classroom full of feedback. As future educators, I think it's important to take her style into consideration as an opportunity to also do something different with our own class someday. I don't know about you guys, but my other classes are so boring. The professor talks and we talk notes. Every class. This class we get to blog, do different projects, presentations, and even create a website that we can use later on. I really like this class a lot and learned so much. I even learned about myself and how much I use media. The course homepage is really helpful too. My other professors gave us a syalbus but it doesn't even make sense anymore because things changed and it's just useless now. I guess my favorite topic in the class would be the flas mobs. Theyre just so weird and random! I loved watching people's reactions when a group of people suddenly started doing kung-fu in the middle of a park for 2minutes then stop and go about their day like nothing happened. Halirious!!! I know it can be good for a statement and what not too. Writing for Cyberspace is better than what I thought it would be. I mean I was interested in the class, that's why I picked to take it, but I really feel like I learned a lot and then class isn't even over! What do you guys think? Leave me a comment and let me know.

Blog 17- Hyptertext essay editted

Cell phone or mobile phone novels called keitai shousetsu in Japanese, are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young Japanese women, on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy. However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese ethos of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel) Therefore, identities of the Japanese authors of mobile phone novels are rarely disclosed. Only a valid e-mail address is needed; the user can make up any name he or she desires. No further personal information is required or asked for.

Phone novels originated in 1999 by a Japanese man in his mid-late thirties who calls himself "Yoshi". “Yoshi” added a template to a website called “Maho i-Land” (“Magic Island” in English) titled “Let’s Make Novels”. More people have cell phones in Japan and China than they do computers and as a result, it was a huge hit. In Japan four out of the five best selling literary novel list were phone novels in 2007. (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear) Maho i-Land is in Japanese, but www.textnovel.com is a similar website for phone novels in English. Phone novels are particularly beneficial and appealing to young, aspiring writers. This is because there is a possibility the phone novel will be published in print or even into a movie. The phone novel "Love Sky" written by a 19 year old Chinese girl sold (along with it’s sequel) 2.6 million copies. The book was eventually turned into a movie and earned 35 million dollars at the box office. Still, keeping her identity hidden for her family's sake. In any event, phone novels gives writers a chance to explore and write freely. Not only is the content unlimited of options but the style in which the author chooses to write is as well. Sentences, words, etc. may be written normal (like the format I am writing now), very spaced out, or jumbled together (like if two people were in a fight) to portray emotion and significance. The format is the author's decision and sense of self expression. There are no rules. Today, authors of phone novels are adding video and audio clips to their novels. Even if the user does not want to write, the user can read other people's phone novels. The website allows a search by topic. Thousands of different stories are available on multiple topics of interest. Many phone novel users agree that texting is faster and easier than writing on a computer keyboard and even prefer writing this way. As soon as the thought comes up, the text message is soon to follow and a novel published. Besides, it's totally FREE! Not to mention, if desired, completely anonymous.

Anyone can write a phone novel, it’s fast and easy. Here’s how:

1. Go to the website www.textnovel.com and create an account. You must have a valid e-mail address.
(There are also directions on the website at the bottom of the page, to the far right under “How To”).

2. Go to “My Library” and select “Create a New Story”

3. Give your story a title, select a genre (action, horror, romance, mystery, etc.), a rating (G, PG, PG-13, R), and a short description (like what you would read on the back of a book).

4. Title chapter 1 and begin your story.

5. Save the story; you can choose to publish what you have done so far or keep it private. After the story is saved, a code will be given next to the story title. This is the code used to edit the novels via text message or e-mail. (Each novel you write will have a different code)

6. Add a contact in your cell phone for add@textnovel.com as “Phone Novel” or whatever name desired. Send the SMS/MMS text message to add@textnovel.com. In the subject line type your story code, colon, and chapter number.

For example, if I wanted to add text to chapter 3 to my novel titled Love at First Sight with 808 as my story code, I would address my text message to add@textnovel.com, add 808:3 in the subject line, write the text I wish to add, and send the text. If you do not specify the chapter number desired, the text will be applied to the last chapter written. If you wish to make a new chapter, use the same format with the new chapter number, colon, and new title. So the format I would use would be 808:4:The First Kiss. The same format and code applies for e-mail.


Unlike printed novels, phone novels on the www.textnovel.com have the advantage of peer reviews. Other users can also post comments on other user’s phone novels and rate them. The phone novels with the highest ratings appear on the homepage. A $1,000 prize is offered at www.textnovel.com for the author of the best phone novel of at least 20 chapters finished by July 2009. (More information is available at www.textnovel.com)

PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS!!! I could use the feedback, thanks.

Blog 16- Research hypertext rough draft, very rough

What are phone novels? Are they private? Where did they come from? How are they beneficial and why should I care?

Via text messaging to a website, users create novels or stories that may be viewed by others called "phone novels". Phone novels originated in Japan by a Japanese man in his mid-late thirties who calls himself "Yoshi". Soon, phone novels trickeld over to China and even America. Phone novels are most popular among young romantic women who often write about love affairs, love triangles, pregancy, rape, sex, etc. Japense ethos frown upon this sort of behavior so it is important especially to Japanese and Chinese users to be kept anonomous. Fortunately, phone novels give the option of being private. Much like AOL, the website of phone novels, MahoiLand, sets the user up with a username and password. No further information is necessary.
Phone novels is particulary beneficial to young, aspiring writers. This is because there is a chance the phone novel will be published in print like the phone novel "Love Sky" by a 19 year old Chinese girl. Still, keeping her identity hidden for her family's sake. In any event, phonenovels gives writers a chance to explore and write freely. Not only is the content unlimited of options but the style in which the author chooses to write is as well. Sentences, words, etc. may be written normal (like the format I am writing now), very spaced out, or jumbled togther (like if two people were in a fight). The format is the author's decision and sense of self experssion. Phone novels are said to be adding video and audio clips to their websites now as well. Even if the user does not want to write, the user can read other people's novels. The website allows a search by topic. Thousands of different stories are available on multiple topics of interest. Many phone novel users agree that texting is faster and easier than writing on a computer keyboard and prefer writing this way. As soon as the thought comes up, the text message is soon to follow. Besdies, it's totally FREE!
Getting started...(TO BE CONTINUED)

Blog 15- Wikipedia posts

Wikipedia name: Kat081685

This is the conversation I had with the editter of the Wikipedia Phone Mobile site (he included some links to look at if anyone is interested)...
[start conversation]
I'm trying to get more "traffic" on the page I'm currently working on so I have added a brief introduction and a link in order to do so on "Mobile Phone Novels". I'm not sure if this post will stay, but I think that mobile phone users should be aware of such a neat feature on their phone such as novel writing on cell phones. Let me know what you guys think.--Kat081685 (talk) 18:28, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
I reverted your uncited edits per Wikipedia policy. You will have to get into the habit of sourcing any inclusion of content from here on. Please read WP:VERIFY and WP:ORIGINAL at this time. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 22:59, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
Well, sorry about that. I see your point. Therefore, I posted my the topic again WITH citation this time. Also, I added factual information. Maybe if you have any ideas for me, you could help me so my stuff doesn't get deleted. I would really appreciate it. Check out the "Mobile Phone Novel" site too if you have time.
[end conversation]

If you scroll down to Blog 12, I have kept a Wikipedia posting log, in which, has all the posts I've made including my disscusions as well as my posts with links to them. They're all dated from newsest post to oldest (so the more you scroll down, the older the post was). I thought it would be easiest to kepp all my posting together in one blog and update the blog.

I made contributions to two different Wikipedia websites. One was "Mobile Phone Novels" http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_novel Where I wrote: [Cell phone or mobile phone novels called keitai shousetsu in Japanese, are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young Japanese women, on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy.[1] However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese ethos of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities.[2] Therefore, identities of the Japanese authors of mobile phone novels are rarely disclosed. "Net transvestities" are of the most extreme play actors of the sort.[3] Differing from regular novels, mobile phone novels may be structured according to the authors prefrence.[4] If a couple is fighting in the story, the author may choose to have the lines closely spaced and crowded. On the contrary, if the author writes a calm or soothing poem the line spacing may be further apart than normal. Overall, the line spacing of phone novels contains enough blank space for an easy read.] and under the "History" section I wrote: [The first cell phone novel was “published” in Japan in 2003 by a Tokyo man in his mid-thirties who calls himself "Yoshi". [9] ]

My second post was for the "Mobile Phone" Wikipedia website, in order to draw attention to my Wikipedia website (as Prof. Chandler suggested). This site's link is http://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phoneshttp://http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones
I wrote:
[Usage (TITLE)
A Mobile phone novel or cell phone novels are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging to a website that collects the novels as a whole. [12] In virtual online computer games, readers can put themselves into first person in the story. Cell phone novels create a personal space for each individual reader. Paul Levinson, in Information on the Move (2004), says "...nowadays, a writer can write just about as easily, anywhere, as a reader can read" and they are "not only personal but portable".]

The first post for "Mobile Phone Novels" was not taken down, edited, nor responded to in the discussion page at all. Not even a cricket chirrped. This is most likely because people don't know about phone novels. They've never heard of them before so people aren't looking it up. I mean, it did start in China. I was wondering though..you know how at the Wikipedia homepage, there's the option for all the different languages? Well, is the Wikipedia the same no matter what language you click on? Like if I write about phone novels in English, will someone that does Wikipedia in Chinese be able to see what I posted? I'm just wondering if the Chinese Wikiepdia format has anything more on phone novels since it's so popular over there. hmm..
The second post I made for "Mobile Phones" was deleted and I got a response from some dude in the discussion page. He told me I needed to read some link he posted for me and provide better citations. If you go to the link under the discussion tab and scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll see what we wrote. The title of our discussion is "Mobile Phone Novels" and my name is Kat081685. I think he was upset and having a bad day or something. In all seriousness thoguh, I think he reacted that way because he's probably been working hard on the site for mobile phones and here I come along and add a topic he thinks is irrelevant with bad citations.. so he got angry. Understandable. Buttt I still re-posted the topic with citations corrected and edited my information. I haven't had it taken down, but we'll see.

Blog 14- detailed research plan

Focus: Phone novel awareness

Research question: What are phone novels and where did they come from? Where may phone novels be found? Can I write a phone novel and if so, how? Where would I start? Are phone novels really that different from book novels? Can phone novel writing benefit me as an author? If I did write a phone novel, what are the privacy, copying, and plagrisim rights I have?

Layout: I envision the layout of my project to be visually stimulating particulary to my audience of feamles in their late teens-mid 20s, yet steadily informative. I think the best way to do this would be a linear structure with scrolling and nodes with forward and backward links. For instance, the information I will provide will be in a single, long page with entitled chunks of information. These titles will be outlined in the beginning of the page so users can click on something of interest and be forwarded directly to the information. The nodes show users what the hypertext contains and enables them to get there with no trouble. There isn't a lot of clicking around which means less frustration and the more chance the users will read. I was thinking that I could include portions of examples of different types/styles of Phone Novels as different nodes as well as a direct link to "home" of a Phone Novel site. I want to include images in refrence to phone novel topics (like a man and women kissing and another women in the backround); something like on a cover to a movie that makes you read the back. The user looks at the image and is encourgaed to read because she is interested in the picture, thirsty for more. Another image I could post is an author that had their Phone Novel published. Users will be inspired and think "I could do that". To the right, I want nodes of popular phone novels so users can click and be connected to the phone novel with no problems. A true example is very important so the user has the complete understanding of what phone novels look like. I think that the Linear design is best for my topic because it's the simplest. Users won't have to do a lot of clikcing around, the topics are all right there and titled for easy access/navagation.
So basically, the macro sturcture of my hyertext will be linear with nodes, (linking to popular phone novels, the phone novel website "home", wikipedia definition page, and different titles within the hypertext). Each title contains a "chunk" of information which together makes my essay a whole. There will be an outline of these titles in nodes in the beginning of the hypertext so the information is organized as well as just a click away.

New References:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0UVnGNnU5F8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=keitai+shosetsu&ots=7dkweWUg9Z&sig=H0_ileVGPdb58q9LIuiPctjWGCY#PPR10,M1 Jiefang Daily, 2005. Mobile Phone Novels Cause to Debates: Literature Art or http://www.mgovernment.org/resurces/positivezfinal.pdf (look at pages 44 - 45)

Blog 13- Research plan

Topic: Phone Novels

Audience: late teens-mid 20s; female

Focus: Phone novel awareness

Research questions:

1. What are phone novels and what makes them unique?
2. Why should I care?
3. How can I write a phone novel?
4. Where can I find phone novels?
5. Do I have to be an author to read phone novels?
6. Where do I start?
7. What is the purpose?
8. How can phone novels benefit me?
9. Copyright, plagrisim, and privacy issues.
10. History and development of phone novels.

Information needed:

• general information
• history- where, when, how and even maybe why phone novels started
• directions/where to begin/how to write a phone novel-beginners
• where to find phone novels: list of websites
• saftey, privacy, copying, plagrism issues
• list of "what to do" and "what NOT to do" maybe
• benefits, advantages, and future possabilites of phone novels
• examples of people who were benefited and how
  
  Sources:

1. Goodyear, Dana (of The New Yorker) "I<3 href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear
2. Michael Marshall"A Mobile Phone Novel Read Via a T-shirt" http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/11/a-mobile-phone-novel-read-via.html
3. Katayama, Lisa "Big Books HitJapan's Tiny Phones"
   http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2007/01/72329
4. Farrar, Lara (for CNN)"Cell Phone Stories Writing New Chapter in Publishing Print" http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/25/japan.mobilenovels/
5. Onishi, Norimitsu (New York Times) "Thumbs Race as Japan's Best Sellers Go Cellular" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html
6. Galbraith, W. Patrick "Cell Phone Novels Come of Age" http://www.japantoday.com/category/entertainment-arts/view/cell-phone-novels-come-of-age

Blog 12-Reports for interactions on Wikipedia post

My name on Wikipedia is Kat081685...
3/29/09-8:00p.m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone
I tried to post again under the "Mobile phone" website but added citations this time like the guy wanted. I hope it stays up for awhile. No one has contributed to the "Phone Novel" Wikipediea site or discussion page. I don't know what's going on. I was thinking maybe after I do my hypertext essay, people would take the topic into consederation. We'll see. I'll post again with updates.

Usage (the subtitle I created in "Mobile Phones")
A Mobile phone novel or cell phone novels are the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular age via text messaging to a website that collects the novels as a whole. In virtual online computer games, readers can put themselves into first person in the story. Cell phone novels create a personal space for each individual reader. Paul Levinson, in Information on the Move (2004), says "...nowadays, a writer can write just about as easily, anywhere, as a reader can read" and they are "not only personal but portable".

3/23/09 (later that day...)http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mobile_phone#Mobile_phone_novels.21

Someone TALKED BACK!! OMG this was sooo FUNNY! You guys have to go to the "Mobile phone" website on Wikipedia on the discussion page under the subtopic "Mobile Phone Novels" (its the last topic, so just scroll to the bottom) Or you can click on the link above for a direct connection. So this guy, "Lord-something or other" got mad at me!! As expected he took down my post and made a RUDE comment about my "Uncitied sourcing" and how I have to "get use to" doing it a different way. He told me to read some stupid link he posted! What a JERK!!!!!! LOL Anyway, I thought it was really funny. At least someone talked to me. I'm going to try to post it again with PERFECT citations to show him up (after I read his precious link) to show him up. I'll post again soon with results. How exciting!!


3/23/09- (3 p.m.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#Mobile_Phone_Novel
As Professor Chandler suggested I "antagonized a website to bring traffic" to my website. In other words, I went to the "Mobile Phone" general site (talking about SIM card, phone laws, handsets, etc.) and just added a section on my topic, with of course, a link that brings users right to MY Wiki-site of phone novels. Hopefully, now the people who look up or edit the general "mobile phone" site will also be intrugeed to my mobile phone novel site as well. This is the link to my newest post onm Wikipedia. I also added to the discussion page, explaining what my goal was. We'll see how long it will stay up and if anyone responds this time! My post is all the way down to the bottom entitled "Mobile Phone Novels". It is very short since it's experimental. I will be sure to add more if the post survives a few hours/day. Leave comments if you wanna!!


3/13/09 (1:30pm)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mobile_phone_novel
First post on phone novels. I added to the discussion page, seeking assistance to anyone who may be interested. I identified what I want to do and listed where I will be doing research for the page. I'm not sure if I will get a respose bcause the only person who EVER posted to the discussion page made the post in 2007 for a research assignment. I'm thinking I'm alone on this one, which is fine actually because at least there's plenty of information and stuff I can add since no one else did.

3/13/09 (8:12 p.m.)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_novel
FIRST actual edit post on Wikipedia!!! AND it's still up! YAY!!! Check it out. I even added link for certain words some people may not know or want further information on. I'm so proud! You guys should be able to recognize what information I posted because I used the article "I <3>'''Cell phone''' or '''mobile phone novels''' called ''keitai shousetsu'' in Japanese, are the first [[literary genre]] to emerge from the cellular age via [[text messaging]]. Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young [[Japanese]] women, on the subject of [[romantic fiction]] such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy. However, mobile phone novels are trickling their way to a worldwide popularity on all subjects. Japanese [[ethos]] of the Internet regarding mobile phone novels are dominated by false names and forged identities. Therefore, identities of the Japanese authors of mobile phone novels are rarley disclosed. "Net transvestities" are of the most extreme play actors of the sort. Differing from regular novels, mobile phone novels may be structured according to the authors preference. If a couple is fighting in the story, the author may choose to have the lines closely spaced and crowded. On the contrary, if the author writes a calm or soothing poem the line spacing may be further apart than normal. Overall, the line spacing of phone novels contains enough blank space for an easy read. (SKIP A FEW LINES). Maho iLand is the largest cell phone novel site that carries more than a million titles, mainly novist writers, all which are available for free. Maho iLand provides templates for blogs and homepages. It is visted 3.5 billion times each month. In 2007 98 cell phone novels were published into books. (Under the HISTORY section I added the following) The first cell phone novel was “published” in Japan in 2003 by a Tokyo man in his mid-thirties who calls himself "Yoshi".

3/19/09- WOW I can't believe it but my post is still up! EVERYTHING I posted is still there. I'm really glad because I worked really hard on the wording and trying to make it perfect. Maybe it's because absolutely no one cares about that site and there was barely any information to begin with. LOL. I haven't gotten any response from the discussion page. I'm going to keep checking and if anything changes, I'll make a post.

Blog 11- audience, ideas, and links...

The audience I have in mind for the hypertext essay is young adults and late teens, ages ranging from 17 to 26. My essay will probably be more directed to females, however I am trying to incorporate males if at all possible. With that said, I will be using various images, fonts, and web layout styles which would be appealing to this age bracket. I plan to provide links for topics, words, further reference, and maybe even examples to which I feel is important to know/see/explore relating to phone novels. These links will be interesting enough so they are utilized by my ideal users. My goal is to make awareness of phone novels. Just because in Japan phone novels were popular among young women regarding romantic fiction doesnt mean ONLY young women regarding romance can participate in phone novels. Therefore, I really want my audience to be interested and check it out. I think my site will appeal most to young, novist, writers. A lot of books were published from the phone novel site and sold like hot cakes. Some were even turned into movies! On the other hand, I also think my audience could be readers. People who just want to read, not write. You can browse by topic so that could be something he or she would really enjoy. I read on someone's blog that she is going to divide up pages for diferent topics with a navagation bar at the top. I absolutely LOVE her idea and I totally want to copy. I was thinking I could do one page for "writers" and another for "readers" and then of course the information page and where to find the websites, etc. What do you guys think?

Blog 10- Exploratory writing: focus & plan for hypertext essay

Focus: Phone novels

Research plan:
I went to my local library by my house and found 0 books on phone novels. Granted, the library is not exactly a BIG or new library but I still disappointed. Actually, it was kind of funny because the libriarian didn't even know what I was talking about (and she was Chinese) !! In any event, I have devised a research plan with many options that I think will serve me well. First, I will reread the Wikipedia page on phone novels, maybe something will be useful. Next, I decided to gather information or all kinds to get a more in depth, detailed understanding of my topic. This will help me pinpoint what exactly I want to post on Wikipedia as well as my hypertext essay. To gather this information, I plan to go to Borders or somewhere that has books (like another library or bookstore) and get a few book on my topic. Then, of course, I will further explore the Internet; reading, bookmarking, chats even, and explore the phone novel site itself. I was even thinking about talking to someone who is involved with phone novels to see what he or she has to say. Along the way I will be writing everything down in my notebook for class, priting, and keep track of my sources exactly. It's important to do this because documentation of sources aka citing is vital to any type of research. Plus, you can go back and know where you got what from. These are my first steps to my hypertext essay as well as narrowing down my post(s) for the Wikipedia assignment. If I come up with any other ideas I will post further below and date the new information so no one has to reread this whole thing. Also, I will make a seperate post if I end up talking to a "phone noveler" incase anyone is interested. Let me know if you guys have any suggestions for me and I'll do the same for you!

blog 9- Produsage

This article mainly talks about consumers, distributors, and producers. In today's society the producers are essentially becoming the consumers and the consumers the producers. In an Internet world, the producers, say of a web page, are considered a consumer because they utilize the website themself, thus making he or she a consumer (even if they are the one who created it). Consumers may also be a producer, for instance editors of Wikipedia. Our class will become prodcuers when we post our Wikipedia project. It's that simple to be a producer. Although the idea itself is not difficult, I feel the article was very informative and professional sounding. It seems more complicated than it really is. In produsage, everyone is a contributor with equal acess to information. The preconiditons for produage are affordances, rather are essential in order for it to work. They include, probalistic, equipoteniality, granular, and shared (in a nut shell). What do they mean? In other words, there is a community of users who contribute to solve problems. These problems are not specific but can be anything. Groups then group on these problems and the solution grows off of the contributors. In which, everyone has an equal level of participation and access of information (oppse to a hierachy). Moreover, there is distributed knowledge meaning everyone has a piece of the solution that is put together in a larger whole to solve the "puzzle". The more produsage, the better because the more solutions and input possible. These concepts relate to social networking sites in the fact that everyone has a say; it's open participation. Wikipedia as mentioned earlier, phone novels, even facebook and myspace. The famous "Tom" although created myspace therfore a "producer" participates, he has a page and sneds messages to you, posts,etc. and therefore he is a "consumer". We utilizing the myspace are "consumers" however, are also "producers" because without the people making the pages there wouldn't be a "myspace". By creating a page, you became a "producer". There are lots of social networking sites today that use this "everyone is a bee working in a bee hive" concept. In which, what everyone does matters and everyone is equal. I liked this article, it was really interesting. I never really thought about all this before but I can totally see Brun's point. I wonder what made him think of it though...hm

Blog #8: Exploratory writing for Wikipedia post

My inital interest with Wikipedia posting was gaming. Not just regular gaming, I wanted to talk about Halo2 specially in regards to Ethernet connection. How Ethernet makes the game better, what the connection does, how to use the connection/set up, and what the original Halo game was like without Ethernet connection. However and unfortunately, when I looked at the Halo2 page there was a slew of information already on my topic! I was surprised but not discouraged until I started to read the text. Wow. They have everything covered. I mean, there was stuff I didn't even know about on there. Here I come along thinking I could make a significant contribution but apparently not. Thus, I have decided to switch my topic. Sadly. In any event, I think I am going to focus on phone novels if the professor says it's ok. I don't think she will object, so I'm starting to refrence it. I found the reading which we were assigned to be really interesting so I think this will be the perfect topic for me. In addition, I looked up the page on Wikipedia and they need more citations and refrences!!! yay!!! I am excited. I totally want to be a Wikipedia editor. I haven't got a specific focus just yet because I really want to read and refrence phone novels before I pick. I will add to this post later or tomorrow and identify what I will be doing in more detail. If anyone has any ideas either on Halo2 or the phone novels I am open for suggestions as always.
I began to read the manual for posting/editing on Wikipedia and mannnn is that thing LONG! I actually fell asleep at my computer reading it. I made the mistake of trying to print it out and now my printer is out of ink. I suggest reading parts of it though because it really is helpful. The manual link is on the course homepage. It definately clears things up. It even shows examples of how to do the editing. The sandbox is really cool. I think the name "sandbox" is adorable!! Good luck everybody. (I know I'll need it) : )

blog 7- flashmobs

Flashmobs are really interesting. A large group of people come together at the same time to achieve a common goal. Flashmobs have different purposes. For example, one flashmob occured in New York, in the middle of Times Square where hundred of people demonstrated a pillow fight just for fun. Another flashmob taped their mouths shut and stood there as a political statement. Hundreds to thousands of people unify to become nsync. It is amazing to bare witness to such an event, furthermore to be a part. Exactly how do these people come together at the same time and place? Mostly cellphones. Text messaging is the main communication of flashmobs. Chain texts are sent to people, who in turn forwad the message to eveyone in their contact list, and so on and so forth. A typical flashmob message may read "Times Square, 3:30pm 2/20/09-PILLOW FIGHT". Some people are signed up for a flashmob list, whom recieve the message first. Other communication methods include emails and word of mouth. These older communications are not as effective or as easy as text messaging by a cellphone. Emails may not regularlly be checked and information can be distorted or forgotten by word of mouth. Texting is immediate, fast, and not to mention most cells have picture messaging. Picture messaging can be helpful in regards to images that people can see, like exactly where to be, etc. Letters through the mail are much to slow, time consuming, and cost money. For all these reasons, text messaging is the main way of flashmobs communicating. If plans are changed, people will recieve the news immediately. As a result of such a fast communication method, more flashmobs are occuring. They are more organized and effecitve. Not to mention probably larger in size.
In the future, I'm not sure what other communications flashmobs may utilize. Texting seems to be working out great. A voice memo and videos are already available but I think texting is the best way to communicate. The information is in black and white, with almost no chance of misunderstanding as their could be with a voice memo (if someone had an accent per se). I think it is obvious why text messages underpin the flashmobs communication.

Technology Narrative

Technology was always part of my life as I look back; the radio, TV, even electricity. It wasn't until I was introduced to the computer that technology changed my life, particularly in literacy. Around 12 years of age I stopped reading books and started surfing; surfing the Internet that is. Everything I wrote was on the computer there after. A new chapter of my life began with the introduction of this new technology, the computer. Computer usage helped me develop as an individual. I valued writing more and followed through with my interests. Using the computer everyday scaffolded and reinforced who I am today.
As a child, I loved to read books. All types of books; The Babysitters Club, Goosebumps, Nancy Drew, autobiographies, fiction, science fiction, mystery, I thought they were all great. I even won a summer reading contest when I was eight years old, reading 300 books in one summer alone! I was in the newspaper and everything-my parents were so proud of their little book worm. My brother thought I was nuts of course. My brother Jimmy and my father loved the computer. They were always hovering over the desk starring at the monitor. I specifically remember them playing computer games and thinking how disinteresting it seemed and that they were on for so long. I didn’t understand. I thought it looked extremely difficult to use a computer. Little did I know how drastic my life would change in a few years because of it. Soon, my mother wouldn’t have to yell at me to go to sleep when she heard my footsteps scurry across the living room floor to swap the book I just finished for a new one. Instead, however, she would have to find peaceful compromise between Jimmy and me when we fought over the computer. Who would’ve thought?
Around 12 years old my father showed me a computer program called America On-Line and immediately I was hooked. I created a user-name and password, customized my homepage and personalized the page to accommodate my personality. Even when my friends came over, we would go on the computer. America On-Line, as well as other communicative programs like g-mail, continue to be a huge part of my life today. IMing (or texting) seems to replace phone calls and e-mails replace letters. Furthermore, I pay all my bills on-line. I spend hours on the computer without even realizing it. Whether I am IMing, e-mailing, researching, shopping, or adding to my webpage, time seems to disappear; computing is timeless to me! I became familiar with the computer from using the AOL search bar. I would type in different words or things that interested me. I learned about other websites from friends, teachers, family, and advertisements thus began my exploration.
My father and brother Jimmy introduced me to a few computer games. A very popular computer game in the 1990s was The SIMS, a virtual reality family simulator where you create a family in a neighborhood. You control their movements, find jobs, mates, pets, even furniture for the house! I spent hours playing. Another computer game I was dedicated to is called Alien vs. Predator. This game was different than The SIMS because there is a headset in which you can talk to your teammates and opponents. For those who do not have a headset there is a chat (like IMing). In order to talk to the other team the “ALT” and “ENTER” key must be hit together at the end of the message. I became really good at these games. Eventually, I was an expert at the computer, connecting a 25 foot Ethernet cable extension to my room. I even bought a really expensive lab top. Any video game I play now is “live”, in other words connected to the Internet. I really enjoy the communication between teams; it just makes the game so much more fun. Halo 2 is my absolute favorite. The different strategies and tips people communicate made possible by the Internet are wonderful. I like the game more because I improve my skills with the help of my team mates. Sometimes I am even the one who helps another player. It makes me feel good to do that. We play together to achieve the same goal and make compromises along the way. Other gaming systems I have do not offer this ability. My Sega Genesis and Nintendo are sitting in my basement collecting dust. The computer literally left all other games “in the dust”.
Computer technology positively changed my life. I have always kept journals. I wrote in cute little notebooks with hearts or butterflies on them. To this day, I have stacks of journals. Sometimes I wrote so much my hand would hurt. One day when I was about 15 or 16 years old, my father suggested I type my entries in Microsoft Word. He showed me the basics to the program and I began to type my best writings, editing them along the way. Data is stored on the hard drive so editing couldn't have been easier. Then I printed out a titled cover page and put it all together in a blue, three-ringed binder. My writing went from scraps of scribble on a cute notepad to a potentially publishable work of art! Computers have a security and professionalism that pen and paper can never possess. I was really proud of myself when I was done. I can take these writings with me anywhere and everywhere since they are saved on a flash drive. It’s really small and cute, saving me lots of space in my purse. I utilize various programs other than Microsoft Word such as, Works, Power Point, and Word Processors. These programs aid me in professional writing and school related presentations. The tools in these programs such as spell check, wizards, and thesaurus help my documents be the best that they can be, not to mention they're much more attractive in comparison to my penmanship. I made my resume on the computer through a tool called resume wizard. When I walk into a job interview I hand over my resume and feel good about who I am. My self-worth is strengthened with use of these programs. I feel good about what I have wrote because of all of the editing, tools, and “add on’s” (clip art, etc.) available. These programs confidently changed my writing and how I felt about writing forever. My teachers use to give us the option of typing our assignments and researching on the computer if we would like. Today, it is mandatory and I regularly use the programs mentioned. Even though I no longer write in my journals or read many books I feel like I gained so much more.
I am always using the Internet to find out information or simply to just have fun. My likes and interests are strengthened with the computer in a professional way, thus strengthening and reinforcing who I am. I have an unlimited number of options and sources to look through. The computer is a better, much more organized, match for who I am. The fact that everything is just a click away definitely influences me to do a better job on my homework and become involved in things, topics, and ideas I normally would just brush off. I value my work, interests, and ideas more now. The computer and Internet without a doubt has and will continue to positively reinforce my character. Computers are a wonderful thing and I am proud to be a native citizen who invented such a useful technology. Computers have changed my life and I couldn't be happier with having one.

Blog 5-my hypertext idea

For my hypertext project I would like to do maybe something with video games and the internet. There's so many Internet-based games, like I talked about in my narrative. Including, Halo2 and 3, the SIMS, Alien vs. Predator, Flight Simulators, etc. I love playing video games and the communication between players who are playing the video game makes the game so much more fun. Not to mention, the stratgey in which the game is played. With the Internet, I can communicate with all the members of my team to come up with a plan to beat the opposing team. Not to mention distract the other team by mocking them. It's all in good fun though. Sometimes however, things can get brutal but not usually. Flight simulators are even used by the military to teach young piloets to fly planes. Everything is realistic, it's like a game. Without the Internet, ethernet cables, and joysticks the computer would be less interesting to me.
Another hypertext project idea is to talk about how communication between myspace, face book, IMing and email has changed people's other mean of communication. For example, instead of mailing a letter, we would email the person. Instead of telling your friend a funny joke, we would leave him or her a post on the myspace/facebook page. We pay bills online now too.
I don't really have any other ideas. Maybe a webquest or something.

Blog 3: Lankshear and Knobel

I thought their concepts and thoughts were insightful and interesting. I think that they sounded so smart with everything and had points to back them up. I can see where theyre coming from when they characterize digital mindsets and text. I don't really agree with a text being anything you can see though, unless it is on the Internet/computer. I can see the point and I think it's just too "computery". It sounds like everything is programmed or something. I just don't think that it's realistic.
Some countries such as Japan, don't have acess to the Internet like we do. They're limited to exploring and learning things. The Internet in which case, is not exactly a free market for everyone.
I see the Internet getting more technological advanced in the future, who knows what will come out next.
I didn't like this reading assignment too much. I think they read way too into it and over analyzed.

Blog 2: Cyberbullying

This article interestde me. I have heard of cyber bullying on the news and other places I can't really remember, but I know it's an issue. I feel that there are going to be bullies almost anywhere, especially in highschool. I can't say I'm surprised there's cyberbullying but I definately think it's ridiculous. I also feel that the person being bullied should have an easier time defending themselves because the Internet is blind. What I mean by that is, you're not face to face with the person. It's not like someone is going to get beat up on the Internet. Also, there's time to think about what you say. Therefore, time for a good comeback for a bully. Alot of times kids who are bullied are scared of the physical aspect of the bully not so much the verbal context of what the bully says. The Internet elimates the physical threat. On the contrary, I saw on the news this story about some girl who posted a blog and then got beat up for it later. Honestly, I don't know a solution to the cyberbullying. This particular subject interests me though, and I wouldn't mind doing some research. I'm sure a lot of parents have done theirs with all the chaos in the cyber world today. I guess I'm so interested in this topic because I plan on becoming a teacher andplan to incorporate technology such as computers in my class and cyberbullying may be an issue when infact I do. I want to be prepared. Personally, I have no experience with being cyberbullied myself but my friend has showed me a few comments some girls left her and we decided it was best to ignore them. If you don't fuel the fire, it will eventually go out.

Remediation Reading

This article "Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation" is short but sweet. I really like virtual simulations and virtual reality stuff. I think they're just so cool. All the digital/graphc affects in movies and shows are really what makes them great. Without them, they would be boring. Flight simulators are pretty cool too. My dad and brother are totally into them. If you get a chance I definately reccommend checking it out because it's like you're really flying a plane. All of the controls in the cock pit are there and even the sound is realistic. I agree with one of the main concepts in this reading that "immediacy depends on hypermediacy"; today our society is all about technology and what's the best, fastest, most high-tech, etc.

My Technological Narrative (rough draft)

Technology was always part of my life as I look back; the radio, t.v., even electricity. It wasn't until I was introduced to the computer that technology changed my life. Around 12 years of age I stopped reading books and started surfing; surfing the Internet that is. A new chapter of my life began with the introduction of this new technology, the computer.

As a child, I loved to read books. All types of books; The Babysitters Club, Goosebumps, Nancy Drew, autobiographes, fiction, science fiction, mystery, I thought they were all great. I even won a summer reading contest when I was eight years old, reading 300 books in one summer alone! I was in the newspaper and everything-my parents were so proud of their little book worm. My brother thought I was nuts. My brother Jimmy and my father loved the computer. They were always hovering over the desk starring at the monitor. I thought it looked so hard to use a computer. Little did I know how drastic my life would be in a few years because of it.

I kept journals all my life, I bought cute little notebooks with hearts or butterflys on them and wrote in them religiously. To this day, I have stacks of journals. Sometimes I wrote so much my hand would hurt. In school, I remember my teachers reminding the class to use our best handwriting for papers, essays, and homework that were assigned. Somtimes the teacher would require script, which we hated. Today, my professors remind the class too except the reminder isn't to write neatly it's to use 12 point, Times New Roman font, and double spaced with 2.5 inch margins.

Computer technology definatley changed my life. Around 12 years old my father showed me a comuter program called America On-Line and I was hooked. I no longer read as many books. My mother didn't have to yell at me to go to sleep when she would hear my footsteps scurry across the living room floor to swap the book I just finished for a new one. Instead, she would have to find compromise between Jimmy and I when we fought over computer time. America On-Line was a huge part of my life when I was about 13 years old. When my friends would come over, we would go on the computer. IMing seemed to replace phone calls and e-mails replaced letters. I could spend hours on the computer without even realizing it. To this day, that is still the case; it's timeless!

As time went on, my teachers started to give us the option of typing our assignments. Today, it is mandatory. I no longer write in my journals or read many books. I browse the internet instead, I even have the internet on my phone! Various programs are utilized in today's society such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Works, Powerpoint, and Word Processors (etc.). These programs aid in professional writing and presentation. The tools such as spell check, wizards, and thesaurus help our documents be the best that they can be, not to mention they're much more attractive. I picked out my best writings from the journals I kept, typed them in a Word document, and editted it. Then I printed out a titled coverpage and put it all together in a blue, three-ringed binder. My writing went from scraps of scribble on a notepad to a potentially publishable work of art!

Although computer technology replaced my reading of books, it has helped me in so many other ways. I mean I still read, there's plenty to read on the Internet. There's billions of readily accessible information just a click away! I made a resume on the computer through resume wizard and my hand no longer hurts from writing with a pen or pencil. Data is stored on the hard drive so editing couldn't be easier. My mother would tell me stories when she was typist that if she or one of the other girls made ONE mistake, just one, she would have to start all over. Now, we can just backspace. It's a wonderful thing. Computers are a wonderful thing and I am proud to be a native citizen who invented such a useful technology. My household contains three computers one of which is mine that I am on at least 3 times a day when once upon a time I was oblivious to this technology.

Internet in the US

I found "Is the Internet a US invention?-an economic and technological history of computer networking" by David C. Mwery and Timothy Simcoe to be most interesting. I gather from what I've read that the United States was the first to produce the Internet! Fundings from research and government made all this possible. It was interesting to read about how the Internet came to be what it is today. At first it was private, utilized by scientists for research and governmental peoples. Now, we use it daily. An interesting fact I came across on page 1379 is that the U.S. uses the Internet 50% more than Iceland, who is the NEXT most intensive user of secure servers on a per capita basis. That's a lot. It just goes to show how abundant Internet usage is in our country. I was surprised to learn that there's a Telecommunications Act of 1996 where competition in markets fir broadband data communications are reinforced in turn for cheaper prices and broader access. The Internet development boomed the United States economy especially after wars such as the Cold War. I must say that I am proud of my country for such a technological advancement that affected citizens in such a positive manner in which the Internet did. On the contrary, there are downsides to the freedom of Internet. for example, cyberbullying. The cyberbullying article we read is not the first I've heard of the matter. It's been on the news more than once. It's a growing problem in our society and scary to think about as a future Elementary Education teacher. I would like to incorporate technology in my lessons but fear for the saftey of the students. I think the US came so far with the Interent with all the improvements and programs that it's a shame to deprive students because of such threats as cyberbullying. Monitoring is defintaley one way to prevent such happenings. Parental controls is perhaps another. If the Internet came this far since the 1980s, I can only wonder what it will come to be 20 more years from now. My curiosity perplexes me.

google docs & me

I am relatively new to google docs. However, I did use google docs in a group project last semester in the class The Young Child and Technology. I think it's a good tool to have when working with others. I was surprised when it was first introduced to me because I never thought something like that existed. Too bad I didn't invent it myself! Anyway, google docs lets you know when others are signed-on and editing. You may share some documents but not others. You can allow for others you share with to have the option to share the doc with others whom they choose or not; except in order to have this control you must be the "doc owner". You can chose who is the "doc owner". So just because I created a doc doesn't mean I will always be the "owner" of the doc, I can give it to someone.
Personally, I like the whole set up google docs has, like with the stars and cute little pencils. I think google in general is just so wonderful. There's so many attributes, I can see why Kean has students invloved.
I think the professor or someone mentioned what could be negative. Well, as I mentioned before, I did a group project with google docs and in fact experienced this unfortunate negativity. When sharing a document anyone who is in the group can change the document. I wrote this whole essay on the topic which we were assigned. I really spent a lot of time on it and thought it was great. The other girl in my group didn't think so. She actually deleted my whole essay. I was crushed! I thought it was so rude and hated google docs for it. Everyone is different with different opinions so what may seem brilliant to me may seem irrelevant to someone else. See, sharring a doc like that may cause controversy in content in terms of what should be said and how. I do think it's a great concept for multiple people to add onto the same document while being at different locations. I think that people should write in different color so everyone knows who added what exactly. Overall, I think google docs is cool.