Contracts
I like the way that you have set up the website, with plenty of pages to show visitors different sides of the community. I would say that you could add some color to the page. I know you're going to have a page for photographs, but I would say incorporate something into each page to add more color and kind of draw someone's attention into your website!
Abbey of the Genesee Project Site a closer look at the trappist monks of piffard, ny
I just love the way your website is set up! I love the picture that you have on the webpage. It's a nice look - the white with the orange. I also like the "our conclusion" page. It's a nice touch. So far, I think it looks good and I like the different pages that you have set up. I'm interested to see what you put under each!
I just love the way your website is set up! I love the picture that you have on the webpage. It's a nice look - the white with the orange. I also like the "our conclusion" page. It's a nice touch. So far, I think it looks good and I like the different pages that you have set up. I'm interested to see what you put under each!
COPLAC Digital Project by Maureen Sullivan and Sarah Kinzer
I like the moving pages! I think that's it's really cool and I like the colors. I think it'll be cool if you have pictures of your community on the different pages so we get to see different sides of it (according to whichever page its under). So far I think it looks good!
I like the moving pages! I think that's it's really cool and I like the colors. I think it'll be cool if you have pictures of your community on the different pages so we get to see different sides of it (according to whichever page its under). So far I think it looks good!
CONTACT US
Like Dana said, I like that people can contact you, but as we had talked about during class, I think that you might want to take this part out. Maybe you should leave some contact information, but with the community's actual info. That would be a lot more direct than reaching out to you for more info on the community.
Like Dana said, I like that people can contact you, but as we had talked about during class, I think that you might want to take this part out. Maybe you should leave some contact information, but with the community's actual info. That would be a lot more direct than reaching out to you for more info on the community.
While I like the set up and the different pages, I would say that you should have some color with it. You have a page for photographs, but I think you could incorporate some other pictures or something into the website, to kind of brighten the website up. But I do like the set up!
I like the pages that you have, as I feel like they give a well rounded view of the community. I'm really interested in the "principles of the community" page. What you have right now - the home page - is really nice. I think that should be your static page. It'll help to lead into your other pages, giving more info on the community
“impact stories”
I think its nice that the commons is more than just the numbers since it also focuses on the individual and their personal stories.
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
Again, I agree with this statement. I have read many books that have this same theme, that although we have had many years of progress, we are essentially still the same and are essentially still savages. It fits with the whole theme of the wigwams being better than mansions in this book.
for our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is our own scurvy selves. I know one or two families, at least, in this town, who, for nearly a generation, have been wishing to sell their houses in the outskirts and move into the village, but have not been able to accomplish it, and only death will set them free
Sad, but I agree with this. As he said before, there are not many people who can say they own something as many make payments for years and years. I think it's a nice way to put it, by saying that we are imprisoned in our own houses. Maybe the wigwams sound a little nicer after all.
As this business was to be entered into without the usual capital, it may not be easy to conjecture where those means, that will still be indispensable to every such undertaking, were to be obtained. As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility. Let him who has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be accomplished without adding to his wardrobe. Kings and queens who wear a suit but once, though made by some tailor or dress-maker to their majesties, cannot know the comfort of wearing a suit that fits. They are no better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on. Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer’s character, until we hesitate to lay them aside, without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. But even if the rent is not mended, perhaps the worst vice betrayed is improvidence. I sometimes try my acquaintances by such tests as this;—who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee? Most behave as if they believed that their prospects for life would be ruined if they should do it. It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon. Often if an accident happens to a gentleman’s legs, they can be mended; but if a similar accident happens to the legs of his pantaloons, there is no help for it; for he considers, not what is truly respectable, but what is respected. We know but few men, a great many coats and breeches. Dress a scarecrow in your last shift, you standing shiftless by, who would not soonest salute the scarecrow? Passing a cornfield the other day, close by a hat and coat on a stake, I recognized the owner of the farm. He was only a little more weather-beaten than when I saw him last. I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master’s premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief. It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Could you, in such a case, tell surely of any company of civilized men, which belonged to the most respected class? When Madam Pfeiffer, in her adventurous travels round the world, from east to west, had got so near home as Asiatic Russia, she says that she felt the necessity of wearing other than a travelling dress, when she went to meet the authorities, for she “was now in a civilized country, where ——— — people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect. But they who yield such respect, numerous as they are, are so far heathen, and need to have a missionary sent to them. Beside, clothes introduced sewing, a kind of work which you may call endless; a woman’s dress, at least, is never done.
Very interesting, especially since he mentions how men would retain their rank without clothes. How can you tell the wealth of a man if he has no clothes on? The part about the dog made me chuckle, too.
focus on factual circumstances
Important to include as this is why we have the checklist, to make sure that we are factual and fair.
Second, the checklist can provide an important mechanism to document your decision-making process
I think this is important to keep in mind as someone might not be able to make accurate decisions without this checklist.
customize
Like what I said in the previous chapter - I think - when I said that ads of the same thing will keep popping up after you click on it. It's happening on facebook, instagram, you name it.
the camera and computer determine that a crime has been committed and instantly identify the suspect.
Facial recognition scanners. Never thought they were creepy before this chapter.
A computer is, was, and will be a weapon.
Reminds me of the previous chapter, in which he talked about hackers. Yes, computers are valuable because of all the information that they offer us. It just depends on what you do with that information.
surveillance
Makes me think of how if you click on an ad, then that same ad will pop up on other websites. Same thing could be done with politics - and has been done. If you show interest in something, it will continually keep popping up - keeping tabs on you.
New social and civil rights and responsibilities
Up until now, I hadn't thought about the new implications that the internet poses. Makes me think of the whole scare that the government is monitoring our texts and phone calls. There's new layers of privacy when it comes to the internet - "new social and civil rights and responsibilities."
It's more a consciousness thing than anything else. And I'm in the business of teaching new ways, new levels of thinking, new levels of intellectual interaction. . . . When I e-mail with Dave, or when I e-mail with you, that is more consciousness than any other single thing. So we are not just computer networking, when you and I share comments back and forth. It's in a context that to me is much more a consciousness thing. It's literally, as I have said tongue in cheek before, working as an electronic analogy for telepathy. I don't even think that's right. I think it's something more. I think, in a sense, it is shared consciousness.
I really like this idea of thinking. A shared consciousness explains how internet friends can be so much closer than people and neighbors you've known all your life. It quickly explains the bond and connection that I and probably countless others have felt when talking to someone online.
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And a thousand languages
1992
this was only in 1992, just trying to fathom how much it has grown since then is insane. The growth of the internet is still skyrocketing.
you make everybody a publisher or broadcaster of text.
Again, I love this idea of everyone getting to publish and create their own content to put on the web. And it is completely true. More people are likely to voice opinions behind a screen than they are in person. Creating a public space for people to speak helps to encourage people to finally voice opinions. Love it.
By means of a simple program that maps the arrow keys on most users' computers to the telnet program, hytelnet turned Internet into a hypertext database of sorts.
This is absolutely true. I cannot tell you how many times I have searched for one thing on the internet and ended up in a completely different area because one thing was connected to one thing was connected to another. I think that's part of what makes the internet so much fun - you never know what you are going to learn, who you are going to interact with, and where you're going to end up
place
I think this sentence was particularly interesting because of how much truth it holds. With worlds of information at our fingertips, it is easy for college students to never set foot in a library - everything they might need is already in their computer. Similarly, many might not see a need for the Library of Congress or other historical places if they can find all the information they need to on those place(s) right in front of them, on a phone, a tablet or a computer.
In terms of population growth, the original ARPANET community numbered around a thousand in 1969. A little over twenty years later, the Internet population is estimated at between five and ten million people. The rate of growth is too rapid for accurate measurements at this point, with worldwide internetworking plugging together all the little and medium-size networks that have been growing over the past decade or so. The total number of connected networks grew from a couple hundred in the early 1980s to over seventy-five hundred by the early 1990s, reaching people in more than seventy-five countries. In the September 1991 issue of Scientific American, then-senator Albert Gore noted an estimate that has been supported by others: for the past five years, Internet alone has been growing in numbers of users at around 10 percent per month.
Absolutely mind blowing. No wonder internet communities are on the rise. With so many people as users and commentators, I would think it would be impossible for someone to not know someone on the internet by this time.
5) It would be a self-designing experiment. . . . The early users were to design the system for later users. The usage of the system would co-evolve with the system as it was built. . . .
I like this idea because those who created it were going to let it run at its own pace and evolve with the different users that joined the community. Great idea.I think every community should co-evolve with the people that join it.
Hosts are the people who serve the same role in the WELL that a good host is supposed to serve at a party or salon--to welcome newcomers, introduce people to one another, clean up after the guests, provoke discussion, and break up fights if necessary. In exchange for these services, WELL hosts are given rebates on their bills. I was worried that my hosting duties might take up too much of my time.
This made me laugh because I pictured a bouncer who kicks people out for fighting with each other. I can agree with the author however, as I think these duties would take up too much time. I wonder if the host is ever the same person twice.
The feeling of logging into the WELL for just a minute or two, dozens of times a day, is very similar to the feeling of peeking into the caf‚, the pub, the common room, to see who's there, and whether you want to stay around for a chat. As social psychologist Sara Kiesler put it in an article about networks for Harvard Business Review: "One of the surprising properties of computing is that it is a social activity. Where I work, the most frequently run computer network program is the one called `Where' or `Finger' that finds other people who are logged onto the computer network."
It is most definitely a social activity. No matter what website you are visiting, there is usually a comments section where people can tag each other or respond to each other - whether the two people know each other or not
More proof of the absolute wealth of information on the internet and in virtual communities.
This reminds me of so many of my family and friends who say that friends online are not real friends. That I don't really "know" them. This line reminds me of the online friends I have turned to when I thought I couldn't talk to my own family. Many think that since it's online, you can't form lasting relationships or you won't be able to talk to people (as the author says) IRL. However, I think online friends make real life conversations easier. Plus, with an online community, there's the chance that the sense of community will be even stronger as someone is likely to always be awake, no matter if they are next door to you or halfway across the world.
In the online environment, we should encourage the same sense of communal responsibility by giving our class instructions that lead to engagement. Consider these:
I find myself "talking" more when it is an online environment versus one in class. This is because I'm more on the shy side, like described in this article. However, I think with COPLAC, I'll have the opportunity to talk online and during class, which I think, in the long run, will definitely help with my participation in the class. But like the article said, I think it is good to have both opportunities - shy students will open up more online and might subsequently share their thoughts during a face to face class.
Although spatial imagery and a sense of place help convey the experience of dwelling in a virtual community, biological imagery is often more appropriate to describe the way cyberculture changes. In terms of the way the whole system is propagating and evolving, think of cyberspace as a social petri dish, the Net as the agar medium, and virtual communities, in all their diversity, as the colonies of microorganisms that grow in petri dishes. Each of the small colonies of microorganisms--the communities on the Net--is a social experiment that nobody planned but that is happening nevertheless.
I liked this paragraph the most out of the whole introduction. It perfectly summed up how virtual communities found on the internet are constantly changing and evolving, into something that nobody could have anticipated. For me, I never thought that virtual communities could be a thing because I didn't think you could get a real sense of being from just chatting online; this paragraph is proof that it exists and that it is changing and bringing in more people every chance it gets.