10 Questions!

In class task:

This was a little tricky, trying to find these answers without Google or Wikipedia!

The answers to these questions were found through a variety of different websites. I believe them to be the most accurate out of what I was able to find. I also verified my answers with online encyclopedias.

Question One: Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?

The “Love bug” computer virus is a virus which steals passwords. It was created by a Filipino man named Onel de Guzman, aged 24. Guzman studied at a computer school and claimed it was an accident that the virus was sent out, however he was still charged for credit card fraud.

SOURCE: http://premium.asia.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/29/philippines.lovebug.02/index.html


Question Two: Who invented the paper clip?

There is more than one person who was believed to invent the paper clip. For example Norwegian Johan Vaaler who actually registered his creation. At the same time, a man from the U.S named Cornelius J. Brosnan was issued with a U.S patent for his version named the Konaclip.

SOURCE: http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20031120.html

Question Three: How did the Ebola virus get its name?

This was a tricky question to find the answer too. The virus is named after a virus which affects humans, The Ebola Virus. This is a sever virus which was named after an African river where the virus is commonly found.
SOURCE:
http://www.answers.com/topic/ebola?cat=health

Question Four: What country had the largest recorded earthquake?

In 1960, the largest ever recorded earthquake was in Chile. The earthquake created over half a billion dollars in damage. It also created a tsunami, adding to the death toll and the amount of damage.

SOURCE:
http://www.extremescience.com/GreatestEarthquake.htm

Question Five: In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?

A Terabyte is actually 1 024 gigabytes, making it approximately 1073741824 kilobytes.


SOURCE:
http://malektips.com/computer_memory_definitions_0003.html


Question Six: Who is the creator of email?

The creator of email is Ray Tomlinson. It was created in late 1971 when he was working as a computer engineer.

SOURCE:
http://inventors.about.com/od/estartinventions/a/email.htm

Question Seven: What is a Storm Worm?

A storm worm is a computer virus which is made up of a family of trojans. It is a very bad virus which does things such as:

- Stealing e-mail addresses

- Turns computers into spam bots.



There are about 10 million computers infected by this virus, according to experts.

SOURCE: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/10/the_storm_worm_maelstrom_or_te.html?nav=rss_blog

Question Eight: If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way?

The most efficient way would be to contact him at his official contancts, the address and phone numbers are found at this site:
http://www.alp.org.au/people/qld/rudd_kevin.php

Also, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has a My Space profile found here:
http://www.myspace.com/kevinrudd

Question Nine: Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of?

Stephen Stockwell plays the Keyboard for the Black Assassins.

SOURCE:
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm
http://live-wirez.gu.edu.au/staff/stephen/
http://blackassassins.net/

Question Ten: What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?

Web 2.0 is a term used to compare how the internet has evolved. How there have been new inventions and more advanced inventions such as Google and Limewire. It is the new form of the internet, the second stage of the web.

SOURCE:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html

Using New Communication Technologies to communicate with friends and families.

The only form of New Communication Technologies which I use to keep in contact with my family would be the telephone. This is mainly what I use for communicating with my elder relatives, being my grandparents and my great grandparents as they are apart of that age group that are not up to date with using new communication technologies, however in saying this my grandpa has recently been given a laptop from his work and is now mastering how to use e-mail. To communicate with younger family members such as my Mum, Auntie and Cousins, we use our mobile phones, often with my Mum I will call her when I need to communicate with her but with others I just send an SMS.
I mainly use New Communication Technologies to communicate with my friends. Since I have just moved from Sydney, I find it really hard to communicate with my friends without the Internet. We keep in contact via MySpace, I honestly don't know if I would have any contact with them without MySpace. MySpace allows me to post photos of what I am doing up here on the Gold Coast, this allows them to see my new friends and see the places that I go out and visit, of course it also allows me to see what they have been up to since I have been gone! MySpace allows us to send private messages or comments which is a quick way to ask how my friends are going and if anything new is going on with them! I also sometimes use SMS to keep in contact, if i have some sudden news I want to share I just write an SMS and send it to all of my close friends! Also its great to send a quick picture of something, for example my good friend Alice got engaged and she sent me a PXT of her engagement ring! Also with MySpace, it has enabled me to make a good friend Katrine who I have never met before but still talk to a lot through both MySpace and Facebook and i still consider her a very good friend of mine. These two networks also allow me to keep in contact with a good friend Greg who lives in America who I met when he did an exchange. The next thing for me is communicating with my friends up here on the Gold Coast, I often just use SMS but sometimes its just easier to give my friends a quick call, I do find that I go through WAY too much credit! Thank God for Vodafone's $29 Cap. Also I find that in comparison to my friends in Sydney, my friends here on the Gold Coast tend to use Facebook rather than MySpace, I think this is a regional thing as most of my friends here are European or American and tend to use Facebook. In using MySpace and Facebook there are some privacy issues, for example the photos which I post are only for my friends to view and until recently on MySpace, they could be viewed by anyone with a MySpace account, that there is where my only issue arises. Both MySpace and Facebook profiles can be kept private but it wasn't until last weeks New Communication Technologies class that I was concerned with putting MySpace on private. In the class, the issues were addressed of people placing things on their MySpace for anyone to see and this is not always a safe thing to do, and during that week I set my profile to private.

As read, I make use of many different New Communication Technologies. Things such as mobile phones I have used since I was around 12 years old, I mainly got one when I was starting high school as I would meet lots of people and it was also a thing about fitting in. I started using computers when I was very young, around 7 years old as my Mum owned one and in primary school they were starting to teach us how to use them. Networks such as MySpace and Facebook I have been using for around 2 years, I joined them as I saw others using them and they seemed to enjoy them a lot.

Overall, New Communication Technologies are a big part of my life and without them I would not be able to have as much social contact with my friends and family as i do now.

About Aimee

Hi my name is Aimee Hurst and this is my blog for New Communication Technologies, a subject I am taking for my Bachelor of Journalism at Griffith University on the Gold Coast. This particular class, caught my eye because the different types of communication are highly important for a journalist. I hope to learn about a variety of new programs which will become useful in the future with my life as both a journalist and a student.

A little bit about me:
I've just moved up from Sydney, a family move, not a move to attend university, and so far, life up here is great! I enjoy writing, spending too much time on the web looking at the latest celebrity blogs and on myspace/facebook. I hate the debate between myspace and facebook, I can't chose which i like better, because both have their ups and downs, personally it would be ideal if they could be combined. I also enjoy watching movies, I like most genres, however I really do get scared for a week or two after watching a horror film.
I do call myself a busy person, I am at uni 3 days a week and working 3 days also, my only "free" day is a Sunday. But in between work and uni i spend a lot of time with my boyfried Nicolai, from Demark who is also taking this class.