This week the lady's in my group joined forces on monday to discuss our chosen subject for the project identity. We have been intrested in exploring the ideas surrounding pseudonyme's in blogs, their credibility and possibilities they create for the blogger. Were also intrested in how and why people construct an identity on myspace or facebook, to understand this further we thought of createing a fake 6th group member and to create a page for them on these social netwoking sites and to measure how and why they could make friends when not actually physically exsisting in the real world.
After last monday's lesson wher nigel introduced us to the second life phenomena id like to know if there are similar website to this, if the concept of second life is going to grow with multiple websites each offering a different type of virtual world to live in. Being the dedicated media student i am if have noticed that Digitalisaton and the power of the internet was repeatedly mentioned in this weeks papers, in monays media section of the Indipendant the main article was an interview with Helen Boden who is head of news at the BBC. The corporation has recently announced hundreds of job cutsdue to the decision to scale down in the process of "necessairy modernisation". Questions over the quality of the news content have been asked, but it is the speed and power of the the ever evolving internet technology which forces these decisions to be made.
Another internet sea change to develop this week was written about in wednsdays Guardian wher they reported that "This online revolution could finally give journalism its place in history". Many of Britains top newspapers including The Economist, The Times, The Observer and the Guardian will be creating online archieves of their papers text over the past hundred years or in some cases going back longer. Such a resourse is an icredible revolution. Another step in Britains technological acievements making news past and present ever more readily available at the click of a button.
Im looking forward into getting stuckinto the project this week, its difficult not having internet at home so again now im writing in a friends bedroom where you can only get online in a certain corner staeling from the videoshop next door. Even in Lodon one of the most connected online spots in the world wi fi is not a option for everyone. Again pushing the question of the gap between our ever 'developed' and 'developing' world. I cant help thinking that in many ways the internet is running away with us all.....hummm enough blogging for today!

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Blog number 1!

After a school week of pondering over this blogging buinsness saturday morning has arrived and im finally read to enter the "blogosphere"! I have been forsed out of my flat this morning by drunkard dirty housemates and have escaped to the sancury that is also my workplace hoxton square bar and kitchen. The bar is a dark sweaty laberinth of boozing east enders at night yet by day all those arty media types wonder in for coffee and fill the space with a sea of apple macs illustarting photoshopping and flashing. Opting for a public area to be creative in instead of sitting at home the east end bar/coffee house commuity reminds me of the impressionis in the turn of the 19th century post enlightnments children, yet instead of sipping at the absenth here most go for a macchiato!