Chapter 5 summary
After reading Module 5 “User-Generated Content on the Internet”, I learned you can group the Internet’s many communication methods into two basic categories. These categories are called push technology and pull technology, and this is the first time I have heard of these terms. Module 5 also discusses Web 2.0 which is a genius program that lets the consumer make the content. I also learned about news aggregators which display feeds from many different sources on a single page. What I would like to be included in my feed would be my interests in football, gaming, and political stories.
The original purpose for a podcast was to make it easy for people to create and broadcast their own radio shows. Wow, I can become a DJ! Podcasts provide creators with a more efficient and cost-effective way to broadcast their music, or messages, as opposed to having a whole radio station. It is interesting to learn that developers use application programming interface (API) to build applications that can be easily implemented without jeopardizing the program’s interface.
Early networks used a program called “Talk” which allowed users to exchange short text messages. This must have been around before I started using computers in the 1990s. Now when it comes to the term Instant Messaging, I am familiar with that term. I am sure that almost everyone knows what a text message is since cellphone ownership is so high in our society. A constant problem I have with text messaging is misinterpreting someone’s message. You lack the emotional element that can be heard in a person’s voice.
This module discussed social networks and I have heard that social network sites like Facebook were created by an intelligence agency to get people to voluntarily give their information. I did not know Twitter is considered a Microblog. After reading module 5 I have a grasp of the difference between push and pull technology and I learned about all User-Generated content.