Forget the Matrix

[Matyuv]

^ looks crap ^

[Newray]

Then stop using Firefox for that site..

[th3()ne]

Still looks crap. Take it as a compliment.

[Jona]

Firefox pwns why the fuck you make site better for ie

[th3()ne]

True. Why the fuck do people still use IE?

[neo]

Because it comes with the most current windows computers. I use it!

[Matyuv]

mozilla should start making computers, operating systems and stuff.

[Jona]

Because it comes with the most current windows computers. I use it!

That's no reason to use it, it comes with practically every computer in the world. Just use Firefox.

[th3()ne]

This paper is about culture, in particular that aspect that deals with visual language, both pictorial and written. I write not as a traditional art historian, but as someone who was exposed early on to the Metropolitan and the Modern Museums in New York, and who went the way of the artist at first, then designer and art director, brand strategist and currently design professor.

[th3()ne]

Y'know what! If you look at the M logo for Mozilla, it looks simple and cool, if that were developed into a case for a computer, they could do well!

Then again, I wounder what OS they would use, or would they develop their own?

[th3()ne]

Five years ago, when there were far less people on the Internet than there are today, people were wary and skeptical about forming virtual relationships. The fact remains that online, it is very easy to create a character or persona very much different from you. One cannot be completely sure if the people they befriend in chatrooms are who they claim to be. As the years went by, the population of Internet users grew, and new softwares and innovations made online interaction easier and more convenient. The latest and most popular to date is Friendster, which was created by Jonathan Abrams, an engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, and launched in March 2003. Friendster took the Philippines by storm on July and got anyone with access to the computer so addicted to it that reports say Friendster been growing at 20% per week since then (Smalla). Because of its ability to build friendships through “friend-of-a-friend” referrals, Friendster makes online interaction more personal and easier to carry onto the offline world than other forms of online communication.

[th3()ne]

A refugee from Florida and Ohio, I was in a beach house in Oregon overlooking a foggy coastline and the Pacific Ocean. I placed a call to the academic department director at the Art Institute of Portland who was to hire me to develop a course in the history of graphic design, in order to finalize the arrangements and get started on the project. She proceeded to relate to me what had happened to the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. The rest of the weekend was spent in a fog – literally, a heavy one, in front of my eyes – punctuated with assaulting and arresting visual images of the attacks on the monoliths.

[th3()ne]

A Private Network, the network where my arse is classified under, deals with referrals and existing connections. For instance, Ana want to meet Sam who is a friend of her friend, John. Ana then asks John to introduce her to Sam. This is very similar to the face-to-face social situation where one meets new people through the friends they already have. On Friendster one can only view the profiles that person is connected to.

[th3()ne]

Today there is a new kind of online community called Social Networking Models. When an online community is powered by a Social Software, the software is designed to place certain limitations on the users and how relationships are formed, particularly when two strangers make initial contact. The number one advantage of this is the users’ behavior is regulated because the software sets a limit on the amount of contact they have with each other, as opposed to the physical world where the boundaries of interpersonal communication and appropriate behavior lie on societal norms and etiquette, which can easily be broken.

[th3()ne]

You can do all your training on a non-Windows computer like a Mac. However, some of the examples in our advanced classes require a newer version of Windows, like Windows 98 or Windows 2000.

[Matyuv]

Develop theyre own, they are rox.

[Jona]

Yes, they pwn hard.

[Matyuv]

Firefox is far better than stupid Ie

[Jona]

Yeah, IE is so terrible, it like draws viruses to your computer.

[Matyuv]

No, you're wrong there.