IBook

This is Friday night! I have been using this time for my ISTB postings.

But there are no assignments left, so I decided to do a little fun!

IBook Disasembly

I am not a ‘tech guy’ so all I can do is to disasemble the notebook, and… hmm

Anyway! for your litte info, IBook is a pre-generation of Macbook which was a present from my parents.

And this notebook is 10 years old! I got it in the year of 2000!!!

My IBook still functions quite well, but too slow, too heavy and yes too old.

So I decided to see what is inside of this beautiful tech peace.

After unscrewing all parts, an interesting fact was every single part of this notebook is made from other companies. For my IBook, Samsung was the major component such as keyboard, screen and other parts are from Samsung. The battery is from LG. Cooling was from Suncom. It seems to me that Apple is the head collector which assembles all sorts of different tech part, and hence notebooks are created such as Macbooks.

Very interesting. I also have 5 year old HP notebook, and 4 year old Acer.

I will plan something more interesting stuff with those notebooks, and maybe filming is a better way than taking pictures of every single moment.

How could mashups serve international governance? Would mashups serve to make government more effective?

How could mashups serve international governance?  Would mashups serve to make government more effective?

Ok.. well… this is the last question that we as ISTB students have to do for our blogs.

It’s been fun.. and it was something specially very new to me because I never did blogging before. Hmmm

Firstly, a mashup is an application that uses a combination of data and functionality sources in order to provide a new form of service. A great example would be CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). CIA provides all data or statistics from every country on the planet. Also the data and statistic information are frequently updated, hence people have excess to the most recent and accurate information that they want. The mashups can serve international governance in a way that information can be collected with collaborative sources, therefore the collected information is used for international governance. A great example would be the Orange Revolution, in such that web-users tell the world what is really happening in Ukraine via Twitter and Facebook which are great examples of internet mashups.

The mashups certainly serve the government more effective in a way that the government can collect data and obtain information through the mashups. In our readings, one is about the Hong Kong government and how they made a considerable improvement in developing online services.

The mashups will enhance government to serve a better, cheaper, and effective service for the citizens.

Here is CIA link, any country you select, the web-site will provide you every single statistic matter you look for.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Young Hoon Yoo

My map

I am not sure if I am doing my map right…

http://www.mapbuilder.net/libs/FCKeditor/editor/fckdialog.html

If you go to that link, it shows my neighbourhood, and my favourite restaurant.

Thanks

Young Hoon Yoo

I see the link does not work

so I tried it again, and made a capture!!

What does global civil society look like? Where are the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ forces located, and how do they achieve their ends?

What does global civil society look like?  Where are the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ forces located, and how do they achieve their ends?

A global civil society is a nongovernment structure that has an effective influence on physical government in terms of social chagnes. Warkentin Craig, Mingst Karen mention in their essay of ‘International Institutions, the State, and Global Civil Society in the Age of the World Wide Web,’ Lipschutz’s arguement; “there is emerging a global civil society–that is, a parallel arrangement of political interaction, one that does not take anarchy or self-help as central organising principles.”

To answer what the global society looks like, I personally think that it depends on how you look at the society and what ways you think about it.

If you are a realist, or neo-realist; you will see the global civil society as a non-physical place which can be turned into a battlefield in a short time.

If you are a liberal, or neo-liberal; you will see the GCS as the collaborating society which gathers people to help each other. I am more of liberal, so I think the global civil society looks like connections among whom possess the same meanings or wills, and groups they organize can effectively influence the physical government itself. A great example would be the Lebanon case which was mentioned in Professor Reilly’s class, the Lebanon case which internet activists are interested is a protest formed by Lebanon woman who are married to foreign man and cannot pass their citizenships to their children. The foundation of the protest is important because they imform themselves via the social media networks, enforcing the creation of the global civil society, hence affecting the actual government.

I brought up only basic International Relations theories, but the point is that the global civil society is shaped in a way of which you see the society and how you think about it.

To answer where the ‘bad’ and ‘good’ are located, we cannot say what is bad or good.

It is depending on your thoughts and what side you are standing of. We cannot say the Lebanon government is bad because they don’t allow their woman to pass their citizenships to their children. The laws that are initially created are very critical because cultures, society issues, and also religions may be included (Although I know nothing about laws). Thus the endings of the global civil society are complicated, and different case by case.

Here are my thoughts, please comment if you have different ideas.

Thanks

Young Hoon Yoo

Does Internet Democratize the Consumer? Is privacy a concern?

We are now living in a world that the internet is so closed to our physical world. Mobile phones or net-books (smaller than laptops) are great examples. And this falls into the Technology Spread which explains that new technologies change the way how we do things, and shopping is definitely one of the things that have been changed because the Internet certainly democratized the consumer.

In the world where people try to do one thing while thinking about how to do the next thing, Consumers are trying to find what they want as quickly as possible. The internet hence provides the consumers help finding what they want and how they want. Such as Dell, the global-computer company gets all orders via the internet, and they produce personalized computers throughout the world. This definitely shows a phenomenon of how the internet democratized the consumers.

Another aspect of the phenomenon is that we as the consumers have gained a lot more choice of where to buy than we used to have. We still go to big malls and shop from the stores, but we do not think that is only place we purchase our needs. Because the internet exists, we can purchase our needs from anywhere in the world. The Ebay is a great example of how democratized we became as the consumers. If we type a word of ‘Globalization’ in the Ebay website, we receive thousands of products related to the Globalization.

Another issue that can be raised through the phenomenon is the privacy. Because people shop through the internet, using their VISA cards, or any other payment methods, companies can record our information. Especially companies which deal with memberships, they even contain personal information from their members in their data base.

The privacy cannot be a concern as much as our local crimes, but when it comes to hacking and selling personal information to others, it is a global problem that all nations have to solve together. In fact, there are black markets where our personal information is on auction. A great example would be an e-mail sent to you with your name on it, from a company you never heard of. Therefore, we need more specific internet governances, to get rid of black markets, and rather have safe private shopping via the internet.

Picture is from Derek Tsang’s Blog: http://blog.dtsang.ca/2007/01/internet-shopping.html

Exploring I-phone Apps

As I am an user of I-phone, I regularly check what’s new on the App store,

and…

here are the BEST Iphone apps for UNIVERSITY STUDENTS!!
(This is very personal, just keep that in mind haha)

1- Dictionary!: this is a ‘free’ app from the App Store, you can find any definitions of any words!!!

2- SpendingLite: this is also the free app, you can keep recording your spendings. Just let you know that this is a Lite version of the app, there is a full version which you can have various accounts; so you can divide your spendings; cash, Visa, American Express and so on.

3- Docs: this is also free, however, you need to unlock your Iphone to get this app. This app lets you read MS words, Excels, even powerpoint slides.

4- MxTube: This is Youtube-geared app which allows you to download everything on Youtube. So you donnot have to search what you want to see everytime you want to see, your favourite musics or music videos are in your I-phone! (Once again, you need an unlocked Iphone for this app too.)

5- Winterboard: This is very powerful app that can your change your I-phone. Once you download this app, you are in the whole different world.
This powerful app, ‘Winterboard’ lets you change the systems of your Iphone (Confusing eh~).
I will not say much, rather I will show you.

Here is a screenshot of my Iphone,

You can change characters of all apps,

you can have any pictures as a wallpaper (Notice it is not black)

You can have 5 or 6 apps on the dock (mine’s five)

I like to see the time often,so I made a watch on the right corner.

I am using TELUS but I decided to put my initial instead of TELUS on the top bar.

With these systems, you can have  one and only Iphone for yourself, very personal!

So, here are the best five apps for University students,

you will like them if you try them once.

P.S: The three apps on the list of five are from Cydia which is just like App Store but Unlocking your Iphone is required. Therefore, if your Iphone is unlocked, you are explored to even more various apps, even more existing apps. However, the problem is that unlocking is very risky, you are avoiding the Apple Security System on the Iphone. Hence you can download what’s not appropriate, or something you donnot want.

Thanks for reading

Young Hoon Yoo

What are the main arguments in the two readings for this week? What version of historical change do you believe in and why?

Manuel Cartells’s article, ‘Toward a sociology of the network society’, the author starts his article with saying that sociology should be studied and used as our guideline to global success, and then finishes his first section with emphasizing on network society.
As he explains his means in Network society, there are five important paradigms;
 technological paradigm
 social change
 the enclosing of dominant cultural manifestations
 a consequence of the global networks of the economy, communication, and knowledge and information
 progress in scientific knowledge
Manuel concludes his article that new society is created and bounded with dynamic networks.

In constrast of Manuel’s five paradigms, Allison Fraiberg focuses three perspectives on post-modernity in her article, “Of Aids, Cyborgs, and Other Indiscretions: Resurfacing the Body in the Postmodern.”

We live in the ecstasy of communication. And this ecstasy is obscene. . . . today, there is a whole pornography of information. –Jean Baudrillard
There has been a mutation in the object, unaccompanied as yet by any equivalent mutation in the subject; we do not yet possess the perceptual equipment to match this new hyperspace . . . –Fredric Jameson
We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. –Donna Haraway

With these underlying perspectives, Allison explains how structural society would act in relevance to each perspective, and she exhibits how different those perspectives are in terms of the same issue. The example Allison chose is AIDS,
Jameson’s thoughts would be “the ‘general public’ can contact HIV ‘as well.”
Baudrillad’s thoughts to AIDS would be to “keep the ‘halos’ on, the ‘unclean’ out, and the private crucially ‘protcted,”
Haraway’s thoughts would be on the balance between “potent fusions” and “dangerous possibilities.”

What version of historical change do you believe in and why?

My personal believe would be more on Allison’s, because it is more realistic and it is what is happening now. I certainly do not believe all the perspectives Allison is mentioning, especially Haraway’s idea of cyborgs, But I cannot disagree to Baudrillard and Jameson, when it comes to our unsolved problem of AIDS.

Translation☞ Tim Hortons profit rises to $91 million

THE CANADIAN PRESS

OAKVILLE–Tim Hortons Inc. brewed up a bigger profit in its latest quarter.

The coffee, doughnut and sandwich chain says its net income was $91 million, or 51 cents per diluted share in the fourth quarter – up 32 per cent from last year.

Revenue increased by 9.2 per cent, to $615.3 million in the three-months ended Dec. 31 from $563.7 million a year earlier.

Sales at Canadian Tim Hortons stores accelerated each month of the quarter and the momentum continued into the current year.

Same-store sales, which compare locations open for at least a year, were up 3.4 per cent in Canada during the quarter.

Same-store sales growth was somewhat slower for Tim Hortons in the United States – rising by 2.1 per cent.

Translated into ‘Korean’

커피, 도넛과 샌드위치 체인의 당기 순이익 백만 달러 또는 희석 주당 51 센트 4 분기에 있었던 – 최대 32 %로 지난해있다.

매출은 9.2 %로, 6억1천5백30만달러에게 3 개월 12월 31일 5억6천3백70만달러 올해부터 증가했다.

캐나다 팀 호튼 매장에서 판매 1 분기의 각 달 및 추진력을 가속 현재 올해로했다.

어느에 대한 비교 위치를 열어 동일 점포 매출, 올해 적어도 3.4 %로 캐나다에서 4 분기 중에있다.

동일 점포 매출 증가율이 다소 팀 호튼에 대한 미국의 느린했다 – 2.1 % 상승.

Coffee, donut and sandwich chain, or one million U.S. dollars of net profit in Q4 was 51 cents per diluted share – up 32% last year as is.

9.2% of revenue, the 615.3 million U.S. dollars for three months December 31 563.7 million U.S. dollars from this year has increased.

Tim Hortons stores in Canada, one quarter of sales each month, and the momentum has accelerated in the current year.

Open position in which same-store sales comparisons for the year to at least 3.4% during the quarter, four are from Canada.

Same-store sales growth was somewhat slower in the United States team for the hoteune – 2.1% increase.

There are some wording changes within a translation of English to Korean article, causing changes in the translation of Korean to English article.

Podcasting

This podcast is Farell’s epidsode-18, named as “Selling a Business via blog.”

His podcast clearly shows as an example of ‘Technology Spread.’
 Emergence: The internet is created.
 Access: The internet is available to those who have excess.
 Adoption: People make use of the internet.
 Appropriation: Some people realize that the internet can be a great place to do business.
 Familiarity: The users of the internet shope via internet.

http://farrellkramer.com/talkingcommunications/2007/01/22/episode-18-selling-a-business-via-blog/

Folksonomy!!!!!!!

What determines the structure of a folksonomy and why? The code, the content or the *physical technology*?What does your answer to this question suggest about how we can *think about* globalization?

We first have to know what a word of folksonomy means; it is a system which allows the web-users to create and manage tags, hence it is easier as well as faster to classify and find information. Also, it is a word combination of “Folk” and “Taxonomy.”

The structure of the folksonomy is determined by the content. Web users often use key words within search-engines to find what they want, whether it is information, pictures, videos news and so on. Hence they are looking for contents related to their search. This phenomenon is also applied to the folksonomy, people tag the key words (contents), so that other people can find the information right away. If you type a word in Google, endless ‘Goooooogle’ page will be uploaded on your screen. The folksonomy has given a solution to this problem by allowing web users to create and manage tags. Therefore it is the content which determines the structure of the folksonomy.

Hmm.. my answer does not really suggest to think about globalization. BUT, in term of globalization with the folksonomy. The folksonomy may help the globalization through bringing people together to use same informative tags, or share their ideas on the tags.

Sorry for not bringing exact answer to each question!

But once again, thank you for reading!

Young Hoon Yoo