Week 5 Muddiest Points

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Assignment 2

Here is my Flickr URL:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54256523@N07/

Hopefully I did it right. Enjoy!

Week 4 Readings

YouTube and Libraries:  Utilizing YouTube in libraries is a great idea, in my opinion. As those of you may or not know, libraries face serious competition due to the fact that there are new Internet tools like Google. Information that was once only available in libraries is now available at the touch of your fingertips in the comfort of your own home. Thus, in order to compete, libraries are now having to come up with new ways to serve customers. I agree with the article that YouTube would be a great way for libraries to serve customers, and it would also be a good promotion tool for libraries. Libraries need to step up and come up with new ideas if they are going to survive in the Information Age.

Imaging Pittsburgh: The “Imaging Pittsburgh” project was also really great.  I was particularly amazed at all of the images of the Digital Library. Since I am not originally from Pittsburgh and have only lived here 6 months, I enjoyed getting an inside look of the city.  I thought that this project was beautiful, and that it's an incredible gift to the city of pittsburgh.

Data Compression: The Data Compression wiki was interesting. I didn't even know what data compression was until I read this. There is more to encoding data than I ever realized. Also, the part about "machine learning" was particualrly interesting, as it can predict the posterior possibilities of a sequence. I hope to learn more about the concept of data compression as the class goes on.

Week 4 Comments

http://magpie-maggiemagpie.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-4-readings-data-compression.html#comments

http://saralis2600.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-4-readings-927.html#comments

Muddiest Points- Week 4

I have no muddiest points for this week.

My comments for Week 3

My two comments for week 3:


http://magpie-maggiemagpie.blogspot.com/2010/09/week-3-readings.html?showComment=1284760773417#c4585438267165014472

http://rjs2600.blogspot.com/2010/09/readings-for-9-20-9-24.html#comments

My comments

I wrote this on Ryan's blog:

Douglas Appich said...

I respectfully disagree with you about Windows. I applaud any company that addresses customer concerns the way Windows did in that letter. There are too many companies that simply don't care about their customers and do not make an honest effort to address compaints. Comcast is one example of this kind of company. I can't tell you how many times I've had to call Comcast and complain because my cable or internet wasn't functioning properly. Most of the time, I get a customer service rep. that is rude and doesn't know what they're talking about. Not once have I ever gotten an apology letter or anything of that nature. So I applaud Bill Veghe for at least making an