[253] week 6

[Richard Smith <smith@sfu.ca>]

Dear 253,

If you aren't already listening to something, check out this  
"channel" in Pandora: http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh7829240. It is the  
one we were listening to at the opening of the class last week. Go to  
"The Professor"'s page on the wiki and click on him.

	http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/cmns253/course/wiki/TheProfessor/

Something to study by, perhaps.

Speaking of studying, the midterm is next week (February 23...), so  
don't neglect your reading. The midterm is based on the book and the  
lectures.

Assignment 2 is due this Wednesday, and a few people have already  
uploaded theirs to the wiki. They are very interesting and I have  
been trying to keep up with them as best I can.

There is a ton of new social software coming out these days, or that  
I am discovering. Are any of you using Second Life (http:// 
www.secondlife.com)? How about Wayfaring (http://www.wayfaring.com)?  
I have started a new wayfaring site for surveillance cameras  
downtown, something I do for another course of mine: CMNS 453. You  
can see the map here: http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/7392. It is  
in progress.

This week we conclude the lecture on network technology and explore  
some network applications, and in particular HTML and XML and how  
they are being combined to create the semantic web.

I've kept up my "podcasting" efforts (which is apart from the eLive  
recordings) with a week 4 and a week 5 recording. These are linked to  
the appropriate weeks in the schedule

	http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/cmns253/course/materials/Schedule

I had an interesting social software experience this weekend at a  
conference called "Northern Voice" - http://2006.northernvoice.ca. It  
was a bunch of bloggers talking about blogging (mainly, but not  
exclusively) and many people in the audience were furiously blogging  
(and moblogging, photoblogging, videoblogging) while the conference  
was on. Quite a scene. And more geeks per square meter than you'll  
ever see normally outside of a computer science classroom.

See you on Thursday!

...r	

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