Sunday, September 21, 2008

3rd Response

3. Describe the tools you used and why you selected them. This should include:

A. Why a blog:
To find the best place for sharing my diaries and daily basis life. Also, it has a free space in the Internet so I can show my writings to the world.

B. Why Blogger:
Blogger might be because it has the gmail account so would be easier. Also, it's very famous and common among the Internet users.

C. Why wiki:
To create my own encyclopedia that contains all the information I come across without specifying any limited subjects or areas. Exchanging information from others are also one of my interests in creating a wiki.

D. Why PBWiki:
It is fairly common among Internet users as well as it has so many tools that one might need in creating a wiki. It's easy to use and free too.

2nd Response

2. What are the your goals and/or purposes driving the selection of the new web tools, in setting the policies and determining the content?

- Well, as stated in my first response my goal or purpose of my web 2.0 environment is to establish my diaries online so I can see what and how people think and exchange thoughts and ideas together. Also, I always have this determination of starting publishing my ideas and theories online; yet I hope this will not be considered kinda arrogance. Basically, I always have this dream.

Not much policies or strict rules are existed here, so I may have all sorts of opinions. However, this does not mean I wont delete any of the comments; actually I will once I found it impolite or it has any sort of discrimination.

My philosophy in this web 2.0 environment by making it open as much as possible is to accept all sorts of different backgrounds and beliefs, so we can find a place that we can talk.

My Responses to the Workshop's Questions

1. Describe your library, users, and/or situation you to establish who will be using your new web tools?

- Well, my main goal for establishing this web 2.0 environment is to write my diaries online which I started writing in the last six months, yet there were not online. Actually, I was also thinking about my previous writings whether I should include them in here though they were from past, or I should just do the new diaries from the day I started writing in this blog. I have not decided yet, and I wish it would be wonderful experience too.

- Another important reason for establishing this web 2.0 environment is to give my friends the vision of how my life is going especially during my staying here in the United States.


Friday, September 19, 2008

My First Entry


This is me.



  • A huge RTC-like government garbage can that banks can throw all their toxic balance-sheet waste into. (This time, the transfer will be made before they go bankrupt, unlike the case with the first RTC -a.k.a. the Resolution Trust Corp., a government agency created in the late 1980s to liquidate the assets of failed Savings & Loans)A temporary ban on shortselling. (With the unfortunate implication that shorts are the cause of all this)A federal guarantee on money-market accounts. (Including non-recourse loans to banks to buy high-quality commercial paper and meet money-market obligations.)