Chapter+8


 * Alan's presentation:**


 * Alan's Notes:**

Dan Gillmor didn’t have a clue that services, as google would emerge, or that web blogs and other personal media would play such a transformative role in media. Dan Gilmour’s two assumptions:Belief in journalistic values- accuracy, fairness, and ethical standards.Rooted in the vary nature of technology: it’s relentless and unstoppable

The basis of the chapter talks about the growth of technology and the increase of dissatisfaction with mass media. In order to understand this you have to think about the technology and trends underlying the problematic collision between journalism and technology. These trends take the shape of laws Through this power point I will go through these major laws. The first law is named after Gordon Moore- Cofounder of Computer chipmaker Intel.

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore is a visionary. In 1965, his prediction, popularly known as Moore's Law, states that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every two years. And Intel has kept that pace for nearly 40 years. In which in 1965 he predicted that the number of components the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year. In 1975, he updated his prediction to once every two years. It has become the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry to deliver ever-more-powerful chips while decreasing the cost of electronics.

The effect of this new technology- as engineers shrink millions of transistors or components into tiny chips, they can embed enormous calculating power to almost every electronic device we use.

Items we use in our daily lives now have more processing power than early mainframe computers. Handheld devices, alarm cocks, coffee makers, home thermostats, wristwatches, and automobiles. Bob Metcalfe- Inventor of the Ethernet networking that coincides with every personal computer. Historically thinking about he impact of Metcalfe’s law, a prime example of this law is the phone network: A telephone is of no use if you're the only person in the world who has one. But as more and more people get telephones, the value of your device increases dramatically. In more recent times, Metcalfe's Law has been used to describe the growth of the Internet. Essentially, Metcalfe’s law says that the value of a communication network is the square number of nodes, or end point connections. Each new Internet connected computer is a node.In addition with a new mobile phone that can send and retrieve Internet data. Finally we have Reed’s Law, named after David Reed Reed noticed that when people go online, they don’t only conduct one-to one communications as they would with a telephone or fax machine. They conduct many-to-many, or few-to-few, communications. According to Reed’s Law, groups themselves are nodes. The value of networks in that context is the number of group’s factorial. Basically factorial means you take the number of groups, and every integer less than that the number all the way back to one, and multiply all of those numbers together. For example, 8 factorial is 1 times 2 times 3 times 4 times 5 times 6 times 7 times 8. The number of group factorial is a very big number!! What does this mean for news and journalism? A. As the technologies of creation and communication grow more powerful and become smaller, and ultimately become part of the fabric of life, we’ll have vastly more raw data. And we’ll need tools and humans to make sense of it all.

Technorati is a real-time search engine dedicated to the blogosphere. It only searches through blogs to find exactly what you’re looking for. At it’s highest point Technorati was tracking over 22 million sites and over a billion links, a mind-boggling amount. How Do You Search for Blogs on Technorati?Searching for blogs on Technorati is thankfully a very easy task. Navigate to the Technorati home page, and type in what you’re looking for into the main search query bar. If you’d like more advanced search options, click on the “Options” text link right next to the search query bar; a window will appear that will give you more search parameters. Technorati Blog Search FeaturesYou can also browse through Technorati tags, which are basically subjects or topics that bloggers have given to what they are writing about. At the time of this writing, Technorati was tracking over four million tags. The most popular 250 tags are shown on the Technorati home page; they are organized in alphabetical order. The bigger the tag text is in the Technorati tag cloud, the more popular or active that particular tag is.Technorati also has what it calls the Technorati Blog Finder which basically ends up to being Technorati’s directory of blogs, organized by topic. You can browse through the categories, or scroll down to the bottom of the page to view the most recently added blogs.Technorati has a Popular list of what’s getting the most buzz on the Web; it’s interesting to come and see what people are searching for here. News, books, movies, and blogs are the main categories in What’s Popular. In addition, if you’d like to view the most popular blogs in the blogosphere, you can check out the Top 100 popular blogs– “The biggest blogs in the blogosphere, as measured by unique links in the last six months.” Add Your Blog to TechnoratiIf you would like to be added to Technorati’s list of blogs, Technorati offers what they call Claim your blog you give Technorati some basic information and then you are offered a few different ways to have Technorati “claim” your blog. Once this happens, you are in Technorati’s searchable blog database. Obviously, the big advantage of this is you have more people looking at your blog. However, my opinion is that this is not absolutely necessary

Why Should I Use Technorati?People use Technorati on a daily basis to track various trends and topics on the Web. It’s an easy service to use, returns relatively good results, and offers a lot of good insights into what the Web at large is talking about. The only beef many would have with Technorati is that a lot of the results returned can be spammy at times; they need to clean this up so all the results are quality. However, overall, I would highly recommend Technorati as a great way to search the blogosphere.

Alan presenting Ryan notes

Next steps

Gilmors two assumptions-journalistic values, ethical standards

Technology vs. Journalism

Moore's predicted number of computer components would double every year and then double every 2 years. Smaller and more powerful

4004 to over 100000000

Progress with processing power

Bob metcalfe More telephones equals more value

David reed Group to group communications Possible pair connections is the number of groups factorial

Technorati is a search engine for blogs, it is also used to rank blogs by Authority which is determined by who links to a particular blog and the authority of the person who is linking.