Cars are my passion...cyberliteracy was sold out, hopefully this blog isn't to late......
This is just on of many shots of a great passion of mine which is building and tuning cars. The picture above is my one of personal vehicles. I cannot really recall how much money has been spent pursuing this passion, but I do not do it for others, but for my own personal satisfaction and enjoyment. Except now I have a shop so people can pay me to help them realize this enjoyment!!!
I thought the readings were quite interesting. Sturtz was quite informative for myself because I really had no understanding of what a folksonomy was until I read his article. The use of flickr was also completely new to me. Sturtz article helped give me some insight as to how some major search engines generally operate, but when dealing with tagging in my personal experience it can only give me a general sense as to what I might be searching for. For example when I was searching through flickr for "cars" it returned a gamma of pictures (over 1.3 million) with alot of them having nothing to do with cars in my opinion. I then changed my tag on my pics to import tuner cars, and my search then returned less then 1500 results. It is very interactive concept though that we as the users basically have control over how these folksonomies are integrated on today and the future of internet use.
What I found more interesting then Sturtz reading was from the book "Cyberliteracy" because it made me stop and think for a moment how dependent and integrated my lifestyle has become with the cyberworld. I look through my emails and laugh at my poo spelling and puncuation, but we are entering a new era of communication and its all electronic. Then I look at how much you really do isolate yourself when you hop on your computer and enter your electronic world. It does not compare to having a face to face talk with your best friend, or hearing a real voice, but we have become somewhat dependant on our emails and uber fast response times for our everyday lives. If I observed nothing else from these first two chapters than the new found awareness I have when entering the cyberworld and not forgetting reality, I think this book is definitly worth reading.