Art Deco

Well, this last week has been very hectic what with trying to complete my research proposal, literature review and Vis Comm presentation. I just about got on top of them all, and now must return more focus on my website for Internet authoring.

My presentation was on the Art Deco design movement. Here are some more pictures I took in the Art Deco district of Miami Beach last March.

Here's a link to more info on Miami's Art Deco district:

http://www.mdpl.org/

Are bloggers parasites??? :)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/mar/15/comment.media

Is Second Life Environmentally Friendly???

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php

This is an interesting list of "People, places, ideas and trends you need to know":
www.wired.com/geekipedia

Here is some great graphic art I found while researching my Vis Comm presentation. The name of the artist is Paul Sizer. I really like the use of illustrations with real photo backgrounds. The lighting effects are also superb. Check them out here:
http://www.paulsizer.com/bpm/bpm_front.htm

I was looking around the web for definition/explanation of Web 2.0 and found this list.

Web 1.0 was about reading,Web 2.0 is about writing
Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags
Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales
Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications
Web 1.0 was about screen scraping, Web 2.0 is about APIs
Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

This differentiates the two in a simple and effective way. What do you think?