Naturalness and simplicity. Two words that can pretty well sum up a good presentation. The presentation zen article tells us that these two things come with practice and are a skill. However, complication and elaboration are 'natural' to us, which shows the irony in this article. Again, these two things are the difference in which 'presenter' is better at selling their product( Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Steve Jobs, Apple). Steve jobs' presentations are always very 'empty' and 'simple', which is usually best as it engages the audience into listening and not just visualising. Bill Gates goes for a different approach and usually has many headings, pictures and bullet-points.
This is why I think that Steve Jobs has the advantage out of the two.
But I must point out that Steve jobs' presentation,particularily the one on the "iphone 3G", was rather dull and boring. Gates' presentations usually contain more humour but I guess the point of a presenation is to sell your product( for these two men anyway) so maybe humour is sometimes purposefully neglected to make way for impressive facts and figures.
Don Macmillan's presenation on 'how NOT to use powerpoint' was very useful and he covered the topic well ,with good humour, with his key points being:

• Writing every word you are going to say onto your presenation
• SPELL CHECK. IT'S THERE FOR A REASON SO USE IT!!
• Don't use too many bullet-points. Your main points are neglected.
• Detailing/animating graphs too much and using bad colour schemes.
• And finally(a new one to me!),choose your font carefully as it tells the audience what type of person you are. WATCH OUT!!
  

Wikipedia

Wikipedia, THE MOTHER OF INFORMATION ON THE WEB!!, well...to me anyway. I know it's not good, and we're constantly advised not to, but I am one of those terrible sinners that take information straaaiiight off wikipedia( I don't mean "copy and paste" but I don't cross check that the information is completely factual and is all correct).
But probably the most interesting and useful thing I have found out about is the fact that you are able to trace changes and modifications in articles back to the precise location of the computer where it was edited (generalising that all edits are done on a desktop computer).

This tool also allows any user to view the history of the page's edits which can be useful in checking the reliability of the source, e.g. if the article was vandalised moments before you were viewing the article, or if months ago, the latter being the more reliable and therefore useful.
By memorising the IP address of every computer to edit an article or page on wikipedia, you are able to cut down vandalism dramatically by blocking certain computers form editing on wikipedia at all.
Very few people will bother going to another computer just to vandalise an article as many people just do it for fun or fr a joke and is usually a one off thing.

I just saw this a few days ago and had to include it.

Web Tagging (to the extreme!!!)

Before this week's lesson, I'd seen Delicious all over the web, but I'd never bothered to actually type those letters into google.
It wasnt till now that I actually realised how useful it could be and what it could achieve.

People who did realise this were Yahoo and although they realised the potential of delicious two years after it was first released, on 5th December 2005, Yahoo made a great investment.

You may not actually realise how many 'social bookmarking' sites there are on the web, but its closing in 100. But delicious is by far the one leading the way and creating the example.

I currently have only a few bookmarks with Delicious, but I'm sure this will grow due to school and work, and to pages I just find interesting!
The fact that you could share your bookmarks with people of similar interests has made Deliocious as popular as it is.

That is what I believe the best part of it and is why I'm going to stick with Delicious.

Flickr

Flickr started off life as an online game which incorporated sharing photos into it. But little did the creators of flickr know that it would turn out to be as big as it is today.
"Had we sat down and said, 'Let's start a photo application,' we would have failed," Caterina Fake says, a co-founder of Flickr . "We would have done all this research and done all the wrong things."
The game was never released though and in March 2004, Yahoo bought the company for an undisclosed fee and moved the 11 'Flickr' team members, with its company, from its home country, Canada , to the united States.
Flickr's traffic grew 448% to 3.4 million from December 2004 to December 2005, according to Internet measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings. In the nearly 12 months since Yahoo purchased it, the site went from 250,000 registered users to more than 2 million.
Flickr is such a massive photo base, and has so mnany people using it world-widem, that in the last minute that i have been writing this blog, over 42,000 photos have been updated onto the website. The site has revoulutionised the way we use photo sharing.

With over 175 million people all around the world (that's 3% of the world) on facebook, its no wonder that facebook's terms and conditions page is extremely long aswell as all its safety and advice pages.
With this high number of people on facebook it is also no surprise that facebook cannot change a thing about the network without someone starting a group or page against it.
And thats one thing that facebook got wrong. They thought that they could change their terms and conditions page drastically with very few complaints and people skipping to the end and pressing accept (myself included).
What I learnt in the past two lessons is that not many people realise the amount of information that they are putting onto facebook, with some people they are putting ALL of their personal information onto facebook, because they read only one word in facebook's terms and condiyions list: that all of it would be SAFE.
Little did these people know that to be truly safe they would have to manually go into their accounts settings and change it to their level of privacy. I personally only have my email adress and phone number on facebook, but , because of the last two lessons I have had in ICT, I have made sure that only people that I have agreed to be friends with on facebook canm access this information about me.

Facebook

• Facebook chat: MSN KILLER

• Status updates: Social or Nosy?

• Your profile wall: Part Of Your Life

• Applications: Fun Or An Invasion Of Privacy?

• Simplicity: What makes a network ...urrr...WORK!!
  

Privacy in the internet world

Privacy is something that everyone in this world wantsm ut not something that everyone has.
You may say that some celebrity dont have any privacy, but they are exceptions.
As I said in one of my earlier blogs, "the web is a dangerous tool if used badly, but you must embrace the power of it with open arms"; it can be a dangerous tool because of the amount of information that people store on it.
Almost 100 million people are on social networking sites, such as facebook, and the amount of information that is on a website like that is staggering. You can find out peoples phone numbers, their email adress, where they live and a lot more. Starting a network such as facebook is an enormous responsibility.
One of the creators of facebook in a recent interview said that the site was originally started so that several universities could communicate and keep in touch with eachother and he had no intention in it growing as big as it is today.
I am on about four or five different sites such as twitter and facebook, and on both of these sites I have given only my name and e-mail address.
This reveals very little about me which is what you need on the web, privacy, because without that, what have you got?