Translation

Original English Sentence:
"Translate a phrase from English to another language and then back again"

Translated into Chinese Sentence:
"翻譯一個短語從英語到另一種語言，然後再回來"

From Chinese back to English:
"Translate a phrase from English to another language, and then come back"

Result:
Google Translator is professional, the result is almost identical compare to the original sentence.

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Translation Tools - week 6 Scrapbook

Translate a phrase from English to another language and then back again. Post the result to your blog.

Post a blog entry: What are the main arguments in the two readings for this week? What version of historical change do you believe in and why?

Podcasts - From week 5 Scarpbook

What are the main arguments in the two readings for this week? Which one do you prefer and why?

The main idea in Charles’s article “Cosmopolitan Ideal or Cybercentrism?” is democracy and cosmopolitanism; both terms have significant relationship in the communications field nowadays. Democracy can be defined various due to the values of different nations. The emergence of the internet created a brand new way for communication, which created no borders and all people around the world can together as a whole, they can sharing the same visions and values, and create cosmopolitanism together. The mini version of this cosmopolitanism would be the western society we are living right now, we are now having the freedom of speech, we can get to choose the leader of the country, to have relationship with worldwide people and etc. we did everything not only for our culture, ourselves, but as the whole country. This new form of communication will definitely improve our daily life from both economically and politically. But still, for some countries in the world, their governments are still trying to keep their citizens away from the internet information and the western media. The more recent example would be the conflict between the search engine Google and the Chinese government.

The second article “The Enclosure of Cyberspace” written by Ronald V. Betting talks about internet from more social perspective, more related to our daily life. The author is turning information as a commodity goods which all dealing with advertising and selling. We should all agree that money is becoming powerful in out life, internet not only provides an opportunity to sharing and creating information to the world but also creating mass of business opportunity around the world to let many of people make money.

For me, I totally agree with both articles but for the second one, it seems more convince me, since we obviously cannot avoid the power of money now a day, I always do trading on the internet, and I study information (knowledge) from the internet to fulfill my needs, and hope that I can use these knowledge again in my future career to generate money. Even schools are going to use internet as a way to presenting themselves, while more students applying for the school, more funding their will get. Therefore, what Ronald V is saying is more convince me.

Folksonomy - From week 4 Scarpbook

What determines the structure of a folksonomy and why? The code, the content or the "physical technology"? What does your answer to this question suggest about how we can "think about" globalization?

To me, the word "Folksonomy" is new. After I had read some websites, I started to have some idea about what folksonomy actually is. According to the Wikipedia, the definition of Folksonomy is

"A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content."

Tagging is the characteristic of web 2.0, it makes users more easily organize information by the "keyword", and it is conveniences for users get information from the web page. The code, the content and the "physical technology" must work together to make this happen. According to the experiment I did in the tutorial, I have to put the java-script into my HTML code first, then I have to determine the weight of each word within the content, in order to tag it as the "keyword", and of course we need our "physical technology" such as desktop for us to actually access to this folksonomy, so they are essential and dependent on each other. But in comparison, I think the content will do more for folksonomy since the process of getting the keywords are based on the content, or folksonomy will not exits. During the experiment, I found out that folksonomy does provide benefits. First, we can get to choose which word should be tagged, more personalization information. Secondly, all tagged words are sharing over the web, so everyone only needs to type in the keyword at the search engine, all the information that have been tagged with the same keyword will appear to users, and the keywords will actually direct users to the right place. Lastly, by the time you look at the tagged word in a web page, the bigger the size of the word means it is more often being used, it could be an important word within the content. Globalization is a big word for us, we are in the process to globalization, folksonomy defiantly plays a role in this transitional process, and we can think of folksonomy as a basic idea that we can make further development to make our communication wisely and effectively.