The Emo-ness of MEDIA: Medium= enhances+reverses+retrieves+obsolesces??

yare yare~~men do sai....(in japanese means so annoying)...i kind of screw up all the timing for this blog assignment...all thx to my internet la !!! cheh....alright !!! let's speed up the engine and get going !!!

Here comes the topic of the day !!!

Using McLuhan's "Tetrad of Media" (see diagram below), choose a medium or media application or tool (e.g. newspaper, books, radio, tv, film, internet, computer games, handphone, instant messaging, blogging, online advertising, youtube, facebook etc.) and explain its media effects? Please refer to Week 9's lecture notes plus your own research to discuss this topic.

Alright.....as we know that blog is a type of website that usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as selling item or video. According to my best online friend, the Wikipedia, some blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject and most of the blogs are personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

Now, people can exchange their ideas and thinking through blogs but one of the blog's reverses is diary has been taken over by blogging. People would not write diary with hand writing anymore. Also, People can’t get their point across because sometimes their reader can’t read the feelings and expressions on the author’s face when posting on the internet. This may made people lose the desire to write. Blog need to keep it constantly updated otherwise people will lose potential readers too. So, it is easy to start, but hard to maintain.

I think is enough for the blog thing...as same as blog, internet is the most advance and fastest medium for us to seach for the information and communicate to others. The Internet is a virtual treasure trove of information. Any kind of information on any topic under the sun is available on the Internet. There is a huge amount of information available on the internet and the list is end less. The search engines like Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Sogou is at our service on the Internet. We can find almost any kind of subject that we are looking for. Besides that, the foremost target of internet has always been the communication. We can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. There are plenty messenger services in offering like MSN, Yahoo Messenger, e-Buddy and so on. With the help of such services, we can easily chat for hours with our loved ones, communicate with friends and share our thoughts. Internet provided entertainment too. We can downloading games, film and movies, music, animation, online advertising, and visiting chat rooms by using internet. All of these may be downloaded from the internet for free. This is why many people prefer to surf the Internet.

Huhu...although internet is commonly use today but.....*shaking fist* there is disanvantages of internet such as facing grave danger as our personal information such as name, address, and telephone number can be accessed by other culprits to make your problems worse and another example of the internet's disanvantages is the virus threat. (I hate u ,Stupid VIRUS !!!)

yosh !!! time for comment...for....the...class.....actually today's class was sooo un-energytic....ya...Mr.Radzi Bedu's slide is kind of LONG !!! and i feel annoyed cause i m not the type that can sit down and stay still for like 2 hours hearing people talking !!! (In other words, i m a hyperactive person which NEED to move ALOT !!)....ya..and thx to my 2 "humans" behind keep on saying "look that person is sleeping!!" "NOooo...he is not..." "Look la...he is sleeping !!" "Nooooo...he is listening to the lecturer la"....My heart was like " OITTTT !!! SHUT UP LA !!!" the class is boring enough to make people sleep i know !!! but can you just keep your MOUTH SHUT !!! cheh....