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jing video

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links to comments on readings

Here are the links to my comments for this week! :)

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muddiest point

My muddiest point for the week is concerning the google talk we watched this week. I understand that allowing employees the 20% of time to work on their own special projects is important, but I also think that the push toward a semantic web is something that would benefit google. I just wonder why this isn't being pushed further in the amount of time employees spend...is google just trying to make its employees happy? I think that Orkut was a good idea (social networking is really popular right now) but I don't think it's really a "thinking ahead" kind of project, as working on the semantic web would be.

Dismantling Integrated Library Systems

I really enjoyed this article because it covered all the changes that will need to be made to ILS. Making the choice to switch to ILS that involves greater use of technology is an important question to be addressed. I think an important point was made that "library systems are changing because library assets are changing." Because the systems are changing, we need to address the systems and what we need to do for the future.

google talk

lots of searches going on in the world on google
picture of earth showing all the bits going across the world to get information to people searching
Google foundation--want to make the world a better place
Google Grants
Orkut (social networking) getting more popular, variety of demographics, trying it out to see where it goes
let people who work for google spend 20% of their time doing what they want to do and what they think would be best for google

I thought this was a very interesting video. I think it's great that people who work for google have the opportunity to explore their ideas and be creative. Although I knew how far-reaching google is, it was really overwhelming to hear about the number and the extent to which it affects users.

How Internet Infrastructure Works

Internet not owned by anyone, just a system of networks connected to one another
Computer Network Hierarchy:
personal pc-->LAN--> communication company (POP)-->nap-->Internet
Routers: determine where to send information from one computer to another
NSF created the first "backbone" in 1987
4 digit #s in IP addresses called "octets" b/c of binary representation
URL=uniform resource locator
multiple DNS servers at every level to handle requests
All machines on the internet are either servers or clients
HTTP: Hypertext transfer protocol--determines how servers and clients will "talk" to each other w/ the DNS