Blog #6

the key point that I found in the Jenkins reading were focused around the impact and importance of convergence. The term convergence is used in this text to describe the flow of experiences across media platforms, and how users seek various entertainment sources through many individualized means. We then individually create our own relationship with the meta data and data (information) by collecting " bits and fragments of information extracted from the media" (3). I understood this to mean that users, by shaping their own habits and pleasures associated with the web, are creating how the web will function and operate in the future. In this way they are creating organizational systems (tagging).
The Jenkins reading had a very strong link to our previous Weinberger readings, especially based upon the idea of individual users shaping the way the web works. Both authors attribute the organization and direction of the web to be controlled mainly by the input from each user. Although I found the Jenkins reading to look more closely at the origins of media while Weinberger focused on the present.

blog #5

In Everything is Miscellaneous, the author, Weinberger utilizes the thoughts and ideas from German philosopher Heidegger to help prove certain points. Heidegger says, "the meaning of a particular thing is enabled by the web of implicit meanings we call the world"(170). I interoperate this to mean that the world we live in, creates lenses and frames of reference, in which we view things through. Our perceptions of all objects are defined by the meanings and other objects that surround them. His example of a hammer really made this point clear to me. What is a hammer? what is it meant to do? One must know that a hammer is used to drive nails into wood. One must also have a knowledge that we build houses primarily of wood products. In this case wood as a building material, and nails hold the wood together, creating the reality and meaning for hammers.
Heidegger's idea is related to the third order because one object can have multiple meanings linked to it. referring back to the hammer example. A hammer is an object that has several uses, and can be connected to several different groups. It could be grouped into the category of tools, hand held tools, instrument, small, large, nail puller, nail driver, weapon ect. . .
the images i compiled to show my favorite song "walking through the spider webs" by NoDoubt, represent aspects of my life that i associate with listening to this song. Nodoubt is a band that has been a part of my life for a long time. and the songs always make me feel happy. I also associate these songs with summertime, and creativity. I often listen to this band when I am working on art projects.