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Brief 328 isn’t really brief at all. I got email from someone who has been resisting this whole Internet thing. I admire her restraint, but I’m glad she’s giving it a go. She asked me to explain the Web and RSS and Digg and Widgets. I decided to devote an episode to explaining it all, the way I understand it. Hopefully, the explanation is something you guys would like to pass on to your less connected friends and family. I’d also like you to add anything you think I missed in the comments.
I start by explaining the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web. I talk about packet data and the Web before the bubble burst. To me, that’s important to know before you can begin to understand Web 2.0. I talk about RSS and give an example of RSS in action, and I close by explaining Digg and Widgets.
For more detailed explanations, visit CommonCraft.com.
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March 15th, 2008 at 9:41 am
So Cali,
She couldn’t be that good at “… resisting this whole internet thing.”, if she sent you an email. Was it perhaps a letter delivered by the post office? May be it was a stone tablet delivered on an ox cart.
March 15th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Great brief, made my mom watch to help her understand what all here grand children are always doing on the computer.
thank you very much your podcast is one of the better video podcast, you are upbeat and very informative.
shane
March 15th, 2008 at 10:11 am
This was a cool one(y).
I did not need it, but I know that LOADS of people struggle to keep up with what is going on there on the web, ore on a PC at all.
Good one!
March 15th, 2008 at 10:12 am
PS: good pick up of speed (y)
March 15th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Suggestion: To show more potential customers that your Podcast is seen internationally at a glans.
You could show wear the person leaving a coment is located (I know, privacy problem), and what there time is with the time in your time zone.
And it would just look cool ;-)
March 15th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Wow Cali,
that was a good show. I still get a lot of those questions all the time and oftentimes I don’t even know the textbook answers to those questions – although I’ve been working in IT before and have been part of the crazy internets ;-) for 15 years now.
Cheers, Hans
March 15th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Cali, you always do such a great job with explaining difficult things… so bravo, yet again. I’m going to email my Mom and Dad this video cast as I know they’ll be able to use it and take a few things from it and actually APPLY it.
Also, thank you for giving us the opportunity to see some other really cool tutorials from Common Craft. What an awesome gift to share with your subscribers!
I’ve even posted one of your shows to my blog so that all my friends will know WHY they need to USE twitter!
So thank you Neal and Cali! Have a great weekend -
Jeff
http://www.jeffmccord.org
March 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Wow Cali, that was really great. I suggest you do a show like this every so often, just covering an expanding range of topics and geared to the technology newbie. Your primary audience for something like this might not be following your show, but the rest of us will make sure they see it. I’m getting together with family tonight, and I’m going to be showing this to them. One thing I go round and round with people on is that email isn’t a web site (unless of course it is, obviously there’s some blurring). Maybe in the future you could cover web-based email versus that received by a client application, and the advantages of each. Also, it never hurts to get people thinking about FTP, while they’re thinking about other technologies that enable the web. Absolutely awesome show.
March 15th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
So. Now i fully understand the web-thing everybody is talking about …
Perhaps, you can help me with this one :
At my computer i frequently get get this Message :
“NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory”
might this hurt my liddle computer ? Is this is virus ? Will it cause danger to my neighborhood ?
;)
btw nice show
March 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Wow….loved this thing. Next thing before you know it my parents will be doing the World ummm Wide thickness Thing
March 15th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hehe.
“This is not a phone.”
Great discription as to what the WWW and the Internet in general is. You covered most of the basics. Go Cali!
=)
March 15th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
haha, I’ve had at least 20 different people ask me if my N800 is a phone. I don’t know what it is, but EVERYONE seems to think it is a phone automatically o_0.
Anyways, i’m definitely NOT a vista advocate, and I’m almost ashamed of myself for correcting this, but I did just wanna point out that in vista widgets live on your sidebar not your desktop. Ack, I think I need to wash my hands now 0.0
Anyways, that was great. maybe you should do one on the basics of facebook? I’m so tired of hearing people complain that it’s too ‘complicated’, and use this crappy excuse to keep using myspace instead >_ utilities. Click on ‘Macintosh HD’ (or whatever you may have renamed it to) on the left and hit Verify Disk on the lower right corner to see if anything shows up. You’ll have to boot from the install discs that came with your computer if you come up with any. If not, try hitting Repair Disk Permissions instead to see if that helps.
March 15th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
hmm, seems my last post got cut due to formatting errors. Picking up from where I left off at ‘to keep using myspace instead’…
Oh, and Jens: it sounds like a disk error (nfs being your file system) Try using the disk utility under applications -> utilities. Click on ‘Macintosh HD’ (or whatever you may have renamed it to) on the left and hit Verify Disk on the lower right corner to see if anything shows up. You’ll have to boot from the install discs that came with your computer if you come up with any. If not, try hitting Repair Disk Permissions instead to see if that helps.
March 16th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I feel like a total retarded for watching this podcast…
GBTV 328 = worst episode ever
March 16th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Great explanation; I’ll keep this one handy next time someone asks me this sort of question! Thanks. However, the pedant in me takes slight issue at your explanation of packetisation. It’s not the case that packets increase speed by allowing alternative routes to be taken advantage of — although this does happen on some networks, it’s the exception rather than the norm. The real reason data is split into packets is so that multiple simultaneous connections can use the same link (cable, fibre, radio, whatever). Unfortunately I’m failing to think of a good analogy in layman’s terms for this one…
@Jens: (just in case that was a serious question:) It’s not an error, it’s an informative message which can safely be ignored. Although if you really are a beginner who wants to play with Linux, I would recommend a more friendly distribution which doesn’t expose such unnecessary details :-).
March 16th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Best collection of information ever and I have watched every single episode! Please slip in some universal basic tidbits into every episode. In this manner,some viewers (like Sipk?) may be slightly annoyed yet most viewers will be way happy. Never underestimate the value of basic knowledge!
March 17th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
cali this was excellent I think you maybe could make videos about the web and all that kind of stuff and sell it for presentations or just people to lazy to explain what web 2.0 is but just to say this was a great brief
March 18th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Great job explaining things. I need to point a couple people over here to get up to speed.
Keep it rocking guys,
Chris
March 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Hey Cali and Geek Briefers!, Loove the show, just wanted to show you this little video I posted on my blog about a year ago!, its a nice little paper puppet explanation about blogs!, hope you enjoy it! Thanks for ur show!, keep up the good work!
http://drawing-dreams.blogspot.com/2007/12/que-es-un-blog.html