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Yahoo! Games - Be a Board Game God like Murray. Play Chess or Go.

Blogs=New Media? - Thursday, January 13, 2005 at 9:24 p.m.

Just a quick thought that I wanted to get down before I lose it in my sleep time.

Richard discussed in class on how new media is the media that allows two way communication. As the more astute viewer may have noticed, I've changed my template into one that resembles the infamous Yahoo! index page. There are a few tweaks, such as the "Murray is the Board Game God" comment above, my picture on the sidebar and my complimentary dancing bear to drive our professor crazy. The big problem that I'm having with this template, one that is proving difficult to remedy, is that the ability for you guys to comment is gone! I'm still messing around with the original source code (which can be found here btw...) and hopefully I can get it up and running soon.

Without the comments however, this blog quickly loses its claim as two way communication medium. However, continuing on with this logic will bring us to the hypothetical situation of an anti-social blogger who chooses to prevent all his viewers from commenting. Can, then, blogs truly be new media?

While you're thinking about that, realize that I'm treating blogs as a medium that hovers in the unknown region between one and two way communication media. However, if we were to look at a social software, such as MSN Messenger, we can see that it is definitely a two way communication medium. By using the fun fun gadgets available on various websites (such as Mess.be) a situation may arise where User A can block User B on his list and effectively prevent User B from talking to User A while still talking to User B by unblocking User B long enough to send a message and then immidiately reblocking him (or her). While a normal human may not be fast enough to do all the blocking and unblocking required before User B talks back, a program would easily stop User B from talking and another one-way conversation appears.

I'm not sure how all this is relevant, nor am I certain that I have the correct grasp of what is "new media." I shall pore over our text and return to this topic again in the future when I am a bit more knowledgable.

EDIT: It took me a few hours and a lot of guessing and checking, but comments are now working ^_^ *Phew* this template needed to be tweeked a lot! Hopefully that's the end all...

- Cheers,
MrScaryMuffin

3 Comments:

Nice job... but why Yahoo! Canada ???

By FR, at 1:40 a.m.

lookin' good murray. and thanks for the link. love the dancing bear, it reminds me of a teddy gram. mmmm teddy grams. next time a dancing goldfish, perhaps?

By Casey M, at 10:51 p.m.

Yahoo! dot com, sorry...

By FR, at 1:32 p.m.