**simply put, actionable information for example, from the weather, is information that gives me insight and allows me to be decide what actions need to be taken. Do I dress heavy, is a jacket ok, do i go light? All this is determined from the news, weather, mere digits on my toolbar.
Actionable Intelligence: Having the necessary information immediately available in order to deal with the situation at hand. With regard to call centers, it refers to agents having customer history and related product data available on screen before the call is taken.
Computers do this for us, and provide us with the weather and can even give a history of the weather.
W:the news is important because it is actionable information that helps us survive better and provide us with insight that's otherwise impossible without such a system in place.
H:the news is important is by informing you about hundreds of 'texts' or 'communities' that exist in our world today. With news, we can stay informed on just about anything. And this information shapes our very beliefs, attitude, and most importantly your perception of the world around you.
News is: tv news, cable news, NY times, iphone apps to news sites, radio, website news, weather forecasts, espn, sports stories.
Humans are news mediums themselves. people talk news, they tell you whats going on with them, or a particular thing. Gossip is a form of news... News is information that is the very fabric of our Digital Information Culture. It would be difficult to not come across any of these mediums for over 48 unless you lived in complete isolation or somewhere less populated where life is slow. People are constantly sharing news, stories, experiences.
Through this ability to digest news (has to be in your language, clear, concise, etc), we can access realtime information
I found myself pretty anxious, and perhaps even unable to really complete the assignment where i admittedly failed.... It was very hard to do, and something i would consider doing again, but this first time, i failed and maybe lasted for a little over 24 hours.
News is definitely an intrusion of our solitude but more importance should be placed on how it is a necessary intrusion as the news is what we look to to guide us through life in this Digital age or Digital information society. People use more an less news than others might, but its still news, its still the digestion of information and the 'excretion' of action where it is psysical action, thought action, or mental action.
BLACKOUT -
parents watching news monday morning
eating at subway and sat next to newspaper, couldnt look
went on by mistake to usual website, saw news, and ran.
radio alarm clock had news, news is inevitable. we are surrounded by it at all times.
cant even read reddit
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Aristotle, Plato, and You
When we think about our constitution, the same constitution in which we are presently fighting to preserve, we seldom - and i'm speaking for myself at least - associate the creation of it with the names of Aristotle and Plato.
But indeed, they did play a significant role in influencing the American constitution and through Aristotle you had the actual inception of a constitution, or the difference between ordinary law and constitutional law.
This is to be continued... come back soon!
But indeed, they did play a significant role in influencing the American constitution and through Aristotle you had the actual inception of a constitution, or the difference between ordinary law and constitutional law.
This is to be continued... come back soon!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Why do we write things down, anyway?
To start, I would say I do because I can. Then I will tell you because I was made to remember 7 +/- 2 items that would remain in my short term memory, and if lucky, could get into my long term memory. I would also dare say because I was created with the ability to hold and use a pen, or type on a keyboard, and was also created with eyes and the mental capacity to decipher the symbols I put down as well as the ability to recall them, understand them, and internalize them at any time I feel the need to.
Going beyond my ability – or limited ability – I would say that there is a deeper desire for “Man” to write things down in a way as to preserve, or capture the images and thoughts that run through the minds eye. As a human, we can only store and retain so much information before certain things become ‘hazy’, therefore we write them down as a way of preservation and a way to make that thought ‘stick’.
We write because it is our primal innate characteristic to communicate. What is communicated are thoughts, ideas, and emotions across time and space. Since we can’t communicate from the future, we express ourselves in the present through oral, and visual means. Oral being spoken and/or, if we were to go there, unspoken in the form of melody, harmony, and rhythm (as represented in music); Visual, through the use of symbols, which over time, formed into a writing system, which created letters that when put together conveyed thoughts, ideas, and emotions. What I am getting at is that writing is a preservation of language and an extension thereof as well the conveyance of meaning and information.
I would even go as far to say that although we are limited to time and space when writing, we write because there are endless possibilities of things that can be conveyed within a writing system. Limited to language of course, and expressed differently for every language, we write for many reasons, for example: recording. With writing, one can record laws, contracts, history, events, thoughts, ideas and just about anything that can be extracted from thought, or consciousness. We extend communication far beyond the distance our voices can travel.
Today, we write for similar reasons that people did thousands of years ago, but through the advent of blogs, and twitter, we can now write with the opportunity that our ‘voice’ can be instantly read by thousands. That wasn’t exactly the case in the times of Christopher Columbus, as messages then took months to travel from one continent to the other. A blog can become just about anything anyone wants it to be, just like writing was designed for. If you want to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas, you can do so through a blog with the new twist being placed upon the vast audience that can be reached, instantly.
Going beyond my ability – or limited ability – I would say that there is a deeper desire for “Man” to write things down in a way as to preserve, or capture the images and thoughts that run through the minds eye. As a human, we can only store and retain so much information before certain things become ‘hazy’, therefore we write them down as a way of preservation and a way to make that thought ‘stick’.
We write because it is our primal innate characteristic to communicate. What is communicated are thoughts, ideas, and emotions across time and space. Since we can’t communicate from the future, we express ourselves in the present through oral, and visual means. Oral being spoken and/or, if we were to go there, unspoken in the form of melody, harmony, and rhythm (as represented in music); Visual, through the use of symbols, which over time, formed into a writing system, which created letters that when put together conveyed thoughts, ideas, and emotions. What I am getting at is that writing is a preservation of language and an extension thereof as well the conveyance of meaning and information.
I would even go as far to say that although we are limited to time and space when writing, we write because there are endless possibilities of things that can be conveyed within a writing system. Limited to language of course, and expressed differently for every language, we write for many reasons, for example: recording. With writing, one can record laws, contracts, history, events, thoughts, ideas and just about anything that can be extracted from thought, or consciousness. We extend communication far beyond the distance our voices can travel.
Today, we write for similar reasons that people did thousands of years ago, but through the advent of blogs, and twitter, we can now write with the opportunity that our ‘voice’ can be instantly read by thousands. That wasn’t exactly the case in the times of Christopher Columbus, as messages then took months to travel from one continent to the other. A blog can become just about anything anyone wants it to be, just like writing was designed for. If you want to share thoughts, feelings, and ideas, you can do so through a blog with the new twist being placed upon the vast audience that can be reached, instantly.
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