Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Notes on News Blackout - (to be edited)

**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

1 comment:

  1. It does seem impossible to blackout all news, doesn't it? Makes you start questioning "Well what counts as news?" I oftentimes think the barrage of information we come into contact with every day can be somewhat toxic if we let it. It's not the things we look for that are toxic--it's the things we find along the way, like advertisements.

    Ever found yourself singing along with an ad?

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