my hypothesis: let me show you it.

I have decided on a hypothesis. Of sorts.
This is it:
'How has the portrayal of women changed throughout british cinema?'
Ta-da
byeeeeeeeee
xx

Y HALLO THAR

Bonjour!
For my critical research, after much deliberation and procrastination, I have decided to focus on the role of women in film.
This will include looking at how women have been depicted over time in british film and how the stereotypical views of women has changed through generations and trends in culture.
For this I will be using examples from such films as This Is England, and other films which show different views on the way women are or were expected to behave.
With any luck there may be another post over the next few months :D
(kidding..)
TTFN
xx-Emma

FACEBOOK FAIL

This investigation from bbc shows that all is not what it seems on the internet. There are severe amounts of stupid people out there who are in willful ignorance as to the state in which their privacy settings are in. This is one of social networking most prolific flaws as it can lead on to lots of very very berry bad things such as identity theft and err copy right infringements (that is if we are counting youtube as a form of social networking, which it is.

Wednesday 12th Homestudy

Chairman Markey, Ranking Member Upton, and Members of the Committee. It is my honor to appear before you today to discuss the future of the World Wide Web. Though I was privileged to lead the effort that gave rise to the Web in the mid-1990s, it has passed the point of being something designed by a single person or even a single organization. It has become a public resource upon which many individuals, communities, companies and governments depend.
It is a medium that has been created and the Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails.

The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation.

The success of the World Wide Web has depended on three critical factors: 1) unlimited links from any part of the Web to any other; 2) open technical standards and 3) separation of network layers.

All who use the Web to publish or access information take it for granted that any Web page on the planet will be accessible to anyone who has an Internet connection.

The Web has grown because it's easy to write a Web page and easy to link to other pages. Adding a Web page requires no coordination with any central authority, and has an extremely low, often zero, additional cost.

The Web has not only been a venue for the free exchange of ideas, but also it has been a platform for the creation of a wide and unanticipated variety of new services.

The Web will get better and better at helping us to manage, integrate, and analyze data. Web applications will become a more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.

In the future, the Web will seem like it's everywhere, not just on our desktop or mobile device. LCD technology becomes cheaper, walls of rooms, and even walls of buildings, will become display surfaces for information from the Web.

It will shape the nature of the public spaces we work, shop, do politics, and socialize in.

The Web is Not Complete

Progress in the evolution of the Web to date has been quite gratifying but the Web is by no means finished.

The Web, and everything which happens on it, rest on two things: technological protocols, and social conventions. The technological protocols, like HTTP and HTML, determine how computers interact. Social conventions, such as the incentive to make links to valuable resources, or the rules of engagement in a social networking web site.

We have only scratched the surface of what could be realized with deeper scientific investigation into its design, operation and impact on society.

So how do we plan for a better future, better for society?

We ensure that that both technological protocols and social conventions respect basic values. That Web remains a universal platform: independent of any specific hardware device, software platform, language, culture, or disability. That the Web does not become controlled by a single company -- or a single country.

My response:

This article highlights key points and issues regarding the web and its effect upon humanity and the way in which we shape our lives around the internet and in turn how much the web controls our lives. Whilst Chairman Markey informs us of all the ways the web has enriched our lives and made life altogether an easier task, with unlimited information at our disposal he stresses that the web is not yet completed and will continue to grow and expand. He is keen to point out the flaws of the web and the control it now has over society who depend greatly upon it.

Here, have some little men holding up giant W's. \o/ \o/

"Can something like this save the music industry?''

Record labels are predicting that this month's launch of three new mobile phone music services will usher a return of rising sales after years of decline.

Apple's music-playing iPhone grabbed the headlines with its arrival in Britain last week. But music executives are just as excited about the new unlimited downloads service launched on Vodafone. Also Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, has opened a digital music store.

The world's biggest music company, Universal, is backing the MusicStation, the Vodafone service.. "We are at a turning point in the UK," predicting digital music sales here could offset falling CD sales within a year.

One place where the gap has been closed is Japan. Total music sales there edged up 1% last year. Japan's success in offsetting falling CD sales is largely attributed to the prevalence of mobile downloads.

There are already indications that mobile music sales are picking up in the UK. The Orange UK network says its music sales jumped 70% over the past six months and it expects them to double by the end of 2007.

analysts say that new handsets are helping the mobile music market move away from mere ringtones to full song downloads. They expect the UK mobile music market to almost double from a predicted $83m this year to $156m in 2011

There are hopes handsets will improve further from a music-playing perspective thanks to the iPhone..

Although prices have fallen, payment is simpler and handsets easier to use, telecoms experts still list several obstacles to record labels' fortunes being transformed.

"Can something like this save the music industry? in the short term no. Because it's only on Vodafone at the moment and secondly it's very cheap, meaning that the actual revenue for the music industry per user can only be quite small."

Jonathan Arber, agrees users want more simplicity ,being able to play what they buy across various devices. That is already happening with developments in Sony Ericsson's Walkman phones, which synchronise with computers.

Questions:
1) To who would this new music player be aimed at?
2)How will it appeal to its target audience?
3)Do you think it will be successful? why?
4) What are the disadvantages of this?

my computer= EPIC FAIL D:

Google and MySpace have announced they are collaborating in a deal which could shake up the social networking industry.

MySpace has agreed to join OpenSocial, Google's new platform designed to allow developers to build applications that will work on any website.

MySpace joins other sites including Bebo, LinkedIn and Orkut in signing up to OpenSocial.

'Next stage'

The participation of MySpace, which is the biggest network with more than 200 million users, will encourage many more developers to get involved.

It will also be seen as a major challenge to Facebook, the fast-growing network which opened up its site to outside software developers in May.

In a press conference in California, Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt and Chris De Wolfe, president of MySpace, said the two companies had been working on the deal for more than a year. "The web has moved to its next stage," said Mr Schmidt. "We always knew the web would be social."

Google said it had "reached out to everyone" in the social networking industry, and indicated that included Facebook.

Real test

But the network, which was valued at $15bn (£7.2bn) after selling a 1% stake to Microsoft last month, appears to be sitting on the sidelines waiting to see whether OpenSocial takes off.

Tens of thousands of developers have now written applications for Facebook, ranging from online Scrabble, to movie reviews and video sharing services.

While Google has now staked its claim to be a big player in the social networking world, it is not yet clear just how big a threat it will pose to Facebook.

That will depend on whether developers decide it is better to work with a system which will cut the cost of producing new applications for all sorts of sites.

But the real test will be whether social network users care about just how open source their site is.

Questions:

1) What are the aims of 'open social' networks?

2)How can social networking benefit people?

3)In your opinion, how successful will the partnership between Google and Myspace be?