alh71 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:36:22 +0000

This is what someone else had tagged as blog:

As you all well know, anyone can post a comment on this blog. All that is required is typing in an email address and name. Neither of those are verified, so it is realtively easy to be an imposter of someone else.

Note well that the blog stores the IP address of each comment, so although you may think you are anonymous, in practice you are not.

I expect people to behave here with the same level of respect that they have on the CSFBL forums. Clear and blatant abuse will be reported to your Internet Service Provider as appropriate.

I thought this related to my blog of lecture 5 as they are also saying that in a way people are more confident blogging as email addresses and names are not necessarily verified, so it is easy to remain unknown or act as an imposter.

_admin = false; _error = false; _blog = “712542″; _user = false; _site = ‘wordpress.com’; _subd = ‘computersims’; _post = “16″; fzd();

Lecture 5

alh71 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:51:32 +0000

The realtionship between society and technology was discussed today. There are several competing theories of technology. Instrumentalism, Substantivism and Social Constructivism were all discussed. When you think about each of these ideas they all seem to make sense. In a way its confusing how they do all make sense, because how do you know which one is right??

It was interesting to learn from the readings, how blogging is used in so many different ways. People often find it easier to express themselves through blogs, because although they know that other people are reading them, the elimination of the F2F element, gives them more confidence to say what they want.

The mass info that blogging and the net provide is amazing and can be overwhelming. It is sometimes hard to sort through this info and work out what is actaully true and what is being distorted. We must be careful what we beleive.

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Lecture 5