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Reading Response Unit 14

The DaVinci Institute
I don't think that literacy will ever go away and we'll become a verbal society again. Just think about advertisement, how could that only be verbal? Now, I can see the technology becoming largely verbal, but that I don't forsee happening for quite some time, certainly not 2050. Another part of the article I don't like is the suggestion of having space at the library for band practice and such, I don't believe that even fits in with a libraries mission. Same with an art studio and theater-drama practice rooms, why would these be in the library and not the local community center or school?
I do think it's a great idea though that libraries should be at the forefront of teaching the public new technologies, in so far as the library is able to obtain them by monetary support.

What Cloud Computation Really Means
Well, it would have been nice if this article would have answered it's own title, but the information provided was a bit cloudy (ha! ha!). From what I understand of cloud computation from this article is that it has many different meanings and interpretations. No one definition is provided so I don't understand at all what it is. Or perhaps it was just over my head...either way, I got nothing from it and don't understand what cloud computation is now any more then I did before I read it.

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Muddiest Point Unit 12

• I've never been clear on what an RSS feed is visually until this unit, but I don't understand how it's beneficial. It looks like code to me...Whenever I'd click on the RSS option on a site, I thought I was always doing something wrong because it looked just like code, but then on slide 37 an example is shown of RSS feed....I don't know, I just don't really get what it is.

• I really like wiki's. And I'll admit it, I REALLY like wikipedia too! I believe they will always be around and grow in relevance. I believe many are intimidated by this instrument, but what about an encyclopedia, can't information in there be a mistake? Or a scholarly journal, "facts" can be found inaccurate after further study...

Muddiest Point Week 11

Can't all databases be called DL's? While they each have different end goals, at the essence of what they are and how they function seemt he same.

I don't understand the comparison of DL's with search engines....

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Muddiest Point Week 10

Bag of word representation does not seem like a very effective method to organize a document in order for it to be found. Unless the single search query were highly specified, I don't see many relevant results being returned. Is there any type of statistical "hit" rate for this method?

It doesn't seem as though all search engines utilize Boolean operators in there basic search field. How is the average searcher supposed to know?

Can you show some examples of a good index and a bad index?