Topic 2 - Is email dead?

Wk 2 -Lecture

Lecture-

This lecture was based on the question ‘is email dead?’, I believe one of the main reasons this lecture subject was chosen was to make us wonder how much we used email in comparison to other forms of communication eg. Cellular phones or letters. After a brief discussion the topic of spam emails arouse as a common problem for most email users with the variety of spam varying from a multitude of sources including fake banks, names databases, chatrooms, dating services and advertisers. We then went on to discuss the results of a survey we had previously taken and compared it to results of other countries, and in turn found the answer to the question that once plagued our minds – email is not dead. From the results we could see that even though not everyone referred to email as ‘god’ no body had denied using its features within there everyday life. To conclude the lecture we watched a segment from the daily show on blogging and how other countries react to it and view it as a form of journalism.

Tutorial-

During the tutorial we began the first process of creating a blog; we started this process by joining a site called blogger.com. The main reason for creating this blog was to post weekly blogs regarding the content of the course, or really how to make a blog. Setting up the blog was simple process, enter your details here… select a layout and so on. At this stage some of us linked our pages to each others and began typing up our main blogs and putting the finer details onto our pages. We then spent the rest of the tutorials time discussing blogs, how we preferred to blog and if any of us had blogged before.

Readings-

The reading of the bloggers handbook continued and i read more into the aspects of blogging and the ethics which bind certain materials from being excluded from certain blogs.
The reading of the bloggers handbook continued and I read more into the aspects of blogging and the ethics which bind certain materials from being excluded from certain blogs. It then went on to further explain how a blog should be set out, the usual setting of the content in a blog, how to show your personal point of view whilst stile remaining to your main point. The blogging handbook seems to be a good source of information regarding blogging and how the world of blogging works.