There was a clown in the back yard of the dorm last night. He was funny of course provoking others. But he was kinda sad in his 'funnyness' as well... Making fun of oneself seemed always sad to me... Anyway it reminded me of Goffman's role theory where everybody appears to be an actor and through his acting he tries to make others act as public and the public - act the way the actor wants it to... Well every one of us tries to get into the actor's role so here's my play
Me (a good student): Today we've spoken about Netvibes, RSS and Google alerts. Netvibes is something good so it helps a person have an easy access to all the content he/she needs to operate with in one place. I think it will be of a great help to me in order to organize all the feeds I am using to find information and search for different oppinions in the topic I work on, my dissertation.
Others, especially professors (a good public): Oooooohhhh...
Me (a good student): RSS is something I didn't get too well but I've remembered there was an explanation in the textbook, so I've checked it there... it's said that RSS helps the content come to the reader instead of the reader retrieving the content... Well, I have to read it one more time...
Others, especially professors (a good public): Hummmmmmmmm...
Me (a good student): Google Alerts is the thing I liked most and I've already created almost 10 of them... It's a shame it only operates with and searches within English sources but not Bulgarian for example... Ergh, I'll survive I think... But it is cool anyway - you have all you need without having to go and search everytime and then search ahain within the pages that have* been found already...
Others, especially professors (a good public): Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh...
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*There I am not sure if it should be "have" or "had"... Perhaps I have to take a beach therapy... ;)
5 comments:
:( Me neither. I didn't understand RSS as well, but it doesn't matter, it goes step by step. I'll try to search for it on Google alers (yes!!) or i'll simply ask Bill to explain, but I prefer searching.
Hello to both of you,
Let me try to explain about RSS:
RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardized format.
Whan there is a new post or specific information on blog or page... If that page has this RSS - YOU GET THAT INFORMATION ON YOUR NETVIBES OR OTHER RSS AGREGATOR!
I really like yoot reflection Nikolay!
PROFESSOR: "Ahhhhhh" :)
Vasko
I didn`t understand that RSS thing as well, but I am not a techician, so I don`t think I need to understand it. I see that this system works, I use it, I like it and I thats enough for me.
Nice blog! :)
well, I've started to understand it finally... actually, it is when you want to keep an eye on particular things on a particular site, you just go and choose it and put it in your netvibes so you don't have to go to this site and make a search everytime you want to know something...
very instructive conversation here :)
and by the way.. reading your blog is very instructive too.. it makes me think much more of what is happening here and also reflect more in depth of what the things we learn here mean to us..
great blog!!!
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