Week Ten - Information Management 9 May 2008

Lecture


The lecture topic today was about the different types of information management formats such as the atom and bit based structures.It also discusses the changed from atom based formats of information, which are physical piece of information such as books, article, results etc. To bit based formats of information, which are digital forms of information such as online books, encyclopedia's, web journals, articles etc, in today's goods and services organisations.Today's society that are bit based formats are things such as tellers to internet banking, mail to email, radio to mp3's and cds/dvds. Other examples are digital television to interactive television such as foxtel IQ, shopping to ebay and online shopping. Even though we have moved into the technological phase in society there is still a high risk in using them.


Tutorial

We were to set up a favourite list of 3 folders

I created 3 folders within my favourites. These were:
- Tutorial Webpages
- Assignment Webpages
- Reading Webpages


By Qalib




We were to visit a website on Negroponte and read Negroponte Famous "Being Digital"

The last thing that was asked in todays tutorial workshop was to consider if negroponte was still relevent if it was published 13 yers ago and why?

Yes, i do agree with the ideas If i was to consider this website was published 13 years ago, I would say that Negroponte's ideas are very accurate in perhaps predicting the future of technology and what we willor are using. He also mentions the high amount of sources we use other than the internet. We do very much have our wide sources of books, newspapers and magazines and still use them today in a large quantity. He is supposing that 'bits' are more efficient then 'atoms' and that the bits of today's society will be used greatly. The CDs, videocassettes, and CD-ROMs he mentions, are in physical form and he explains that it is a great problem to move them around place to place, unlike information over the internet (bits). Therefore, looking at some of the other factors also he has included, the pros of bits outway that of atoms.






Atom-Based Data
Pros
-hard copy.....we can see and hold it
-know where it is
-can hide it
-easily protected
-difficult to change
-hard to copy

Cons
-Bulky (eg. Text books)
-expensive
-not easily distributed

Bit-Based data
Pros
-very flexible
-cheap
-easily edited
-easily published

Cons
-easily copied and pasted
-can easily be altered by others
-SPAM


Readings

The website "Grazing the Net Raising a Generation of free Range Students" talks about the new age, where students in our society are now offer with limitless amounts of information. It also informs the readers of the many benefits that students will gain throught the use of research using the internet; such as speed, efficiency and more encouragement towards students doing work and assignment with less indecision.