Today’s lecture was amazing. A guest lecturer Jason Nelson, an American expert in digital poet/electronic literature icons gave the lecture. It was about Cyber utopia, Digital writing and dot com crash. Cyber utopia is a non –existent internet. It is a place where data could be sent any where to anyone in a matter of seconds.
The lecture was started with the visualization about search sites. It was interesting to know a list of social net network sites and the aims of these different sites. People have spent lots of money to build up these sites which help people to make or earn money. Elf town, vampire rave, Home star Runner and 4chain are some social net work sites for example.4chain is an enormous site as I came to know from this lecture. Wikipedia which is called free encyclopedia is a great example for collaboration because people could add or do what they want to and it has a lot of intelligent satire. Nelson spoke about the site Pirate Bay and said which is hidden under the umbrella of Swedish law and tracks
Bit Torrent files which is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files.
Also Nelson spoke about the Dot com crash and gave a brief explanation about digital poetry. He showed some games which he has been working on I found Nelson’s site “secret technology.com” about digital poetry which is a useful one. On the whole not only this lecture taught me new stuff but also it was an enjoyable lecture for me.
