CATFISH


Catfish is a TV Show is an American reality-based documentary television series airing on MTV about the truths and lies of online dating. The series is based on the 2010 film Catfish and is co-hosted by Nev Schulman and Max Joseph. It premiered on November 12, 2012. The fifth season premiered on February 24, 2016.

On the internet, catfish is a person who creates fake personal profiles on the social media sites using someone else's pictures and fake biographical information to pretend to be someone other than themselves.

Catfish is not just a film, it is the reality in our daily life. For the now days communication technology, we can easily to communicate with the others that we don't know, like their gender, hobbies, nationality, etc. It is a little bit dangerous for people who meet the others on the social media, we don't how is the personality of others, not every people like the actors Nev, and he is using his emotional experience with Angela. (Nev is the actor of catfish and Angela is the woman who create the identities)

7.9 New Zealand Earthquake

Telegraph reported that there was a 7.9 magnitude earthquake killed two people and caused massive infrastructure damage in New Zealand on 13 November 2016. Soon after  the earthquake, tsunami warning sirens were activated, with police and emergency workers going door to door to evacuate seaside properties.

The New Zealand Herald reported that one of the confirmed deaths was caused by a heart attack and that the other had taken place on a historic homestead near the beach town of Kaikoura.

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The news showed that how the earthquake affect New Zealand environment, how the earthquake devastation aftershocks and the tsunamis quickly followed. Social media can help the people who live in New Zealand or not live in there to receive the information, breaking news, such as Facebook, Twitter, they can separate the information very quickly to inform the others.

 

The Virtual Community

The author suggest that the computer-based communication has introduced a new form of human social life call 'virtual communities', a group of the people link with each other because they have the same topic and their participation in computer networks.

People in virtual communities use words on screens to exchange their own opinion, ideas and argue, engage in different issues.  Also they can share their own experience, share their emotion, find friends, create a forum to communicate. People in virtual communities just doing what the normal people do in real life but they leave their body behind.

Actually, i think the virtual community can help kind of the person increase their confident, communication skill and problem solving skill. There are some types of person, which are talkative, enthusiasm, sociable, but some are speechless, embarrass to talk with strangers, virtual community is a way to let them express their feeling and make some new friends on the internet.

For the TED Talk, i found out "8 Secrets of Success" is a quite interest one, so i choose this topic to sharing their ideas

In the video, the speakers  share 8 secrets of success, there are 8 of them on the below.

Passion: Do it for love, not do it for money

Work: It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But it have a lot of fun

Good: To be successful put your nose down in something and get damn good at it

Focus: It all has  to do with focusing yourself to one thing

Push: Push yourself, physically, mentally, you gotta push, push, push

Serve: It was a privilege to serve as a doctor

Ideas: Listen, observe, be curious, ask questions, problem solve, make connections

Persist: Persistence is the number one reason for our success

All of the people want to be successful, successful can give confident, benefit for the people, also it can provide happiness to the people. 8 of the skills share from the speakers are useful for ours, if we want to be successful, we can follow the speaker's 8 secrets.
https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success/transcript?language=en#t-184053

Hi guys, I'm Steve Jobs. I was born on February 24,1955, in San Francisco, California. i was start working on Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976.

In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counterculture lifestyle:romantic, youthful, creative. But Sculley, who was the Apple's CEO, he though I'm hurting Apple, and the company's executives began to phase me out. In 1997, I returned to Apple and became the CEO because i was success on Pixar Animation Studios and collective netted $4 billion. For the Apple's revolutionary products, which include Ipods, Iphone and ipad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.











So, here is the time to introduce my friends, the first one is David Kottke, he was my college friend who use drop acid with me and i think he is my closet friend in my life.
 

Bill Gates is my another friend, when i was sick he spent a lot of time with me, i am so thankful to him.



I got some of the hobbies which are about the new technology about technology communication, such as Iphone 7, Ipad, etc, There are five of the things that are really important in my life, Pixar, Music, my life, diet and transport. Pixar is one of my successful and affected by my passing. Music is my another hobbies, Bob Dylan is my favorite artist and i spent whopping $100.000 on a stereo system for my home. I like spending time with my family, they are the best in the world. I'm a vegan, starting from 19 years old, and i like German business and engineering, also I'm a supporter of Mercedes.

Hi guys, I'm Steve Jobs. I was born on February 24,1955, in San Francisco, California. i was start working on Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976.

In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counterculture lifestyle:romantic, youthful, creative. But Sculley, who was the Apple's CEO, he though I'm hurting Apple, and the company's executives began to phase me out. In 1997, I returned to Apple and became the CEO because i was success on Pixar Animation Studios and collective netted $4 billion. For the Apple's revolutionary products, which include Ipods, Iphone and ipad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology.

So, here is the time to introduce my friends, the first one is David Kottke, he was my college friend who use drop acid with me and i think he is my closet friend in my life.
 
Bill Gates is my another friend, when i was sick he spent a lot of time with me, i am so thankful to him.


I got some of the hobbies which are about the new technology about technology communication, such as Iphone 7, Ipad, etc, There are five of the things that are really important in my life, Pixar, Music, my life, diet and transport. Pixar is one of my successful and affected by my passing. Music is my another hobbies, Bob Dylan is my favorite artist and i spent whopping $100.000 on a stereo system for my home. I like spending time with my family, they are the best in the world. I'm a vegan, starting from 19 years old, and i like German business and engineering, also I'm a supporter of Mercedes.

The change of communication technology

Communication is a process that to increase the relationship of friendship and know about each other. There are the sender and receiver during the process, sender is to deciding the message and encoding the intended message, receiver is to perceiving the information, decoding and interpreting the message.

For the first communication technology is cave paintings which discovered in France, 30000 BC. There was a huge improvement in 105 AD, Tsai Lun of China who developed the paper, it can let people write on it. Newspaper and telephone were develop in 1650 and 1876, first of the television came out in 1927.

Internet came out from USA in 1994 and blogging is 1999. Currently, we are using the facebook, twitter, youtube, all of them are common from 2004 until now.

Communication technology are keeping improve and they are more convenience for us, we can chat to each other in anytime, whatever different culture, country. But there are few of the weakness of the new communication technology, we know what the others want to talk about but we don't know what are their exactly feeling, also we will misunderstand the others word.

For myself, face to face communication is the method that i like the most used to, it is the comfortable method to communicate to each other, we can know others feeling, emotion, and what they actually want to explain.

CD ROM 1990

CD ROM is an adaptation of the CD that is designed to store computer data in the form of text and graphics, as well as hi-fi stereo sound.From the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s, CD-ROMs were popularly used to distribute software for computers and video game consoles. Some CDs, called enhanced CDs, hold both computer data and audio with the latter capable of being played on a CD player, while data is only usable on a computer.

MiniDisc 1991

The MiniDisc (MD) is a magneto-optical disc-based data storage device offering a capacity of 74 minutes and, later, 80 minutes, of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte of Hi-MD data. The Sony brand audio players were on the market from September 1992 until March 2013.





Betacam 1982

Betacam is a family of half-inch professional videocassette products developed by Sony in 1982. In colloquial use, "Betacam" singly is often used to refer to a Betacam camcorder, a Betacam tape, a Betacam video recorder or the format itself.





Micro Cassette Recorder 1969


A Microcassette is anaudio storage medium introduced by Olympus in 1969. It uses the same width of magnetic tape as the Compact Cassette but in a much smaller container. By using thinner tape and half or a quarter the tape speed, microcassettes can offer comparable recording time to the compact cassette.








Jog-dial VCR remote 1894

In 1894, the first example of wirelessly controlling at a distance was during a demonstration by the British physicistOliver Lodge, in which he made use of a Branly's coherer to make a mirror galvanometer move a beam of light when an electromagnetic wave was artificially generated. This was further refined by Guglielmo Marconi and William Preece, at a demonstration that took place on December 12, 1896, at Toynbee Hall in London, in which they made a bell ring by pushing a button in a box that was not connected by any wires.

Super-8 film 1965


Super 8mm film is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format.The film is nominally 8 mm wide, the same as older formatted 8mm film, but the dimensions of the rectangular perforations along one edge are smaller, which allows for greater exposed area. The Super 8 standard also allocates the border opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded.


Dial-up modem 1992


Dial-up Internet has been around since the 1980s via public providers such as NSFNET-linked universities and was first offered commercially in July 1992 by Sprint. Despite losing ground to broadband since the mid-2000s, dial-up may still be used where other forms are not available or the cost is too high, such as in some rural or remote areas.


Floppy Disk 1960

The first floppy disks, developed in the late 1960s, are 8 inches (200 mm) in diameter, they became commercially available in 1971 as a component of IBM products and then were sold separately beginning in 1972 by Memorex and others. These disks and associated drives were produced and improved upon by IBM and other companies such asMemorex, Shugart Associates, and Burroughs Corporation. The term "floppy disk" appeared in print as early as 1970, and although in 1973 IBM announced its first media as "Type 1 Diskette" the industry continued to use the terms "floppy disk" or "floppy".


Hi-8 Video Camera 1983



Sony released the first consumer camcorder in 1983. The Betamovie BMC-100P used a Betamax cassette and rested on the operator's shoulder, due to a design not permitting a single-handed grip. That year, JVC released the first VHS-C camcorder. Sony introduced its compact Video8 format in 1985. That year, Panasonic, RCA and Hitachi began producing camcorders using a full-size VHS cassette with a three-hour capacity.



Rotary Telephone 1919

This desk set was the first free-standing dial telephone and was introduced in 1919.
It began an era of rotary dial telephone sets which would span the rest of the 20th century.

Timeline of nine of the technologies

Jog-dial VCR remote 1894

Rotary telephone 1919

4.5” Floppy disk 1960

Super-8 film 1965

Micro cassette recorder 1969

Betacam 1982

Hi-8 video camera 1983

CD ROM 1990

Mini Disc 1991

Dial-up modem 1992

Second Life is an online game that relate to 3D virtual world, it is a 3D online digital world imagined, created and owned by its residents.  The first version was publish on 2002, and the test version released in 2003 to the public. The users can build the things they want in the game, i think this is the reason that Second life become popular.






Second Life runs on servers owned by a company called Linden Lab That is based in San Francisco, California. For now day, Linden Lab become a very famous company which they are developing the VR (Virtual Reality). Ebbe Altberg is the current CEO of Linden Lab, he work more than 25 years in Linden Lab and creating software used by hundreds of millions of users.

Second Life is a online game,so it can only play on the internet not the mobile, desktop, computer and laptop can play this game. The user can play this game to meet some new friends because Second Life allow the user interact with other users, including chatting in text or voice, the pretty much cool functions in the game is you can use your voice to chat with friends and build up the geometric models. 

For the strengths of Second Life, the user can build the building in the game, they can meet some new friends which can develop their communication skills. Learning other countries culture because they can travel other countries without leaving the home, they just need the computer and internet. Also the architect can show their product to the others and ask them hows their product. 

For the weaknesses, the image quality is very low in Second Life, their are many competitors such as GTA, minecraft, their image quality are quite good compare to Second Life