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Blogging not only allowed us access to the event; it made us part of the event. And with that, the form had indeed finally come into its own.

Though consisting of regular (and often dated) updates, the blog adds to the form of the diary by incorporating the best features of hypertext: the capacity to link to new and useful resources. But a blog is also characterized by its reflection of a personal style, and this style may be reflected in either the writing or the selection of links passed along to readers. Blogs are, in their purest form, the core of what has come to be called personal publishing.

As Rosalie Brochu, a student at St-Joseph, observes: "The impact of the blogs on my day to day life is that I write a lot more and a lot longer than the previous years. I also pay more attention when I write in my blog (especially my spelling) since I know anybody can read my posts.

They’re using blogging software, their students use blogging software, but I’m not convinced that using the software is the same as blogging. For example, does posting writing prompts for students constitute blogging? Are students blogging when they use blogging software to write to those prompts?

Blogging is about, first, reading.

the benefits for socialization outweigh the potential harm

Unlike adults, youth are not invested in email; their primary peer-to-peer communication occurs synchronously over IM. Their use of MySpace is complementing that practice.

liminal

Regardless of what will come, youth are doing what they've always done - repurposing new mediums in order to learn about social culture.

"Instead of reading about it in a textbook," Chang said, "they're immersed in the environment."

The goal was to create a network that didn’t depend on other parts of the network to operate- one of the key features of TCP/IP.

Instead of one computer having authority over others, computers generally operate as equals.

This ambitious project was initially named ARPANET after the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).

How does the computer know where to send each packet of data if multiple applications are running?

UDP is great for broadcasting data- such as streaming radio music.

ach card has a unique physical address that is set at the factory, and can’t be changed. Essentially this is an identifier for the computer it is installed on.

Instead of looking at every bit of data on the internet, logical addressing allows for computers to just look at data on a home network or subnet.

A router is a device used to read logical addressing information, and to direct the data to the appropriate destination.

TCP/IP includes protocols that tell routers how to find a path through the network.

Instead of having to remember an IP address, name resolution allows you to remember Google’s name.

This handy service is accomplished on name servers, which are just computers that store tables that translate domain names to and from IP addresses.

just ask them why ARPANET designers pressed for a decentralized protocol suite!

the school board president

We will have to accept that privacy as we have heretofore understood it may be a thing of the past:

We will have to accept that privacy as we have heretofore understood it may be a thing of the past: that people will be presented with a bargain where access to the most intimate details of their lives is traded away in return for increased convenience, and that many will accept.

We hear about RFID tags being integrated into employee ID cards, a new modular sensor grid on the architectural market, a networking scheme proposing to use the body's own electrical field to carry information - and this in the general press, not the specialist journals.

t is coming - and as yet, the people who will be most affected by it, the overwhelming majority of whom are nontechnical, nonspecialist, ordinary citizens of the developed world, barely know it even exists.

It is coming because something like it effectively became inevitable, the moment each of the tools, products and services we're interested started communicating in ones and zeroes.

But the technology we're discussing here - ambient, ubiquitous, insinuative into all the apertures everyday life affords it - will be environment-forming in a way neither of those are.

ubiquitous computing is; establish that it is a very real concern for all of us,