Barabasi

1. The main factor for Paul's success in spreading Christian message was how he used the connection of people effectively. He traveled the large communities to share the message with as many people as he could. Another factor was that because Paul was originally persecuting Christians, he knew about how his opponents were managing to do so. Therefore, Paul knew what majors he needed to take in order to spread the Christian message easier. His understanding of both sides of the issue, and his effective use of connection of people made his success.

2. I do not think it would be easy for this to happen again. Today, large communities are connected globally, and people, goods, and information travel among them everyday. I think Paul was able to establish his great achievement because there were not much information shared by the communities yet, and perhaps because the Jews were not able to communicate with distant communities enough to keep them satisfied and have good understanding of their beliefs. Therefore, Paul was able to persuade and have the people in such communities make understanding of the Christian message. However, now, all of the communities literally have the potential to get access to all of the information that exists. There is not much of a gap of information among the large(ecconomically strong)communities. Furthermore, each community has its own values based on its cultre or tradition, so I do not think it would not be so easy to spread one belief to many people these days.

3. How the understanding of each company in Silicon Valley turned out to help the understanding of Silicon Valley itself, or how the connections of species in ecosystems have turned to help the understanding of the effecect humans have on the environment. I would love to see how the understanding of Linear Algebra can help the understand of Psychology(as some mechanics and psychologists are working together to figure out).

4. They have revealed that eventhough each factors are quite complicated, they are surprisingly simply connected. I do find this surprising because learning small segments of things and feeling each of them are quite complicated, it is funny that they should be connected simply.

5. Barabasi mentions that most of the scientific research in the 21st century is about segmenting and trying to understand each part. The problem with this is that you get to know about the pieces, but it is quite difficult to put the pieces back together to understand as a larger piecet, and it is even more harder to understand the whole.

6. The coming era will be about integregation. I think this will become very important, especially in natural science, because I sometimes feel segmentation has gone to far. Each branch has been divided in to so many little pieces that some say that it is difficult to find more than 5 people working in some certain fields. In other words, only 5 people have good understanding in that world. This becomes a problem not only that discoveries will not have enough people to inspect if it is truely a discovery or not, but also in a sense that not enough people would be able to understand discoveries or advanes scientists have made in order to stop things from going to far. For example, cloning, embryo stem cells, are issues that highly need to be discussed by many, various groups of people, and because it is a big topic, they are. But what if some discovery, just known about, by 5 people has the power to change something int he world? Therfore, I think it is time we start connecting each segment, as segmentation goes along even further.

Lesson 4: Delicious as a Personal & Social Study Tool

THINK

1. a) 5% b)40% c)90%

2. Bookmark to the browser, maybe even make that a home page, or write down the key words I used to find that page.

3. Copy the URL and send that by e-mail.

EXPLORE

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c121095r: wikepedia, japantimes, and mango

c121657a: japantimes and mango only

natsumiscicu09: japantimes and mango only





DO

I had learned earlier how I could tag my pages. The great thing about this is that it is like one page belongs to many files that I would make in my bookmark files. One page could have multiple tags, which makes the pages more effective for my learning. Another great thing is how I can send my pages to a friend without copying, pasting, or even opening my mail box. The most useful thing about Delicious for me is how you can search web pages using MULTIPLE tags. I can search down for just the page I need.

EXPLAIN

In order to use social bookmarking, you simply need to be able to use the Internet. The best thing about social bookmarking is how you can carry all of your bookmarks with you, anywhere you want. You could be using the Internet anywhere, surfing anywhere, and you could simply add them to your list of good websites. Even more, you could tag effectively, they will be very easy to search for you, and for anyone else. I, myself could search for a website through Delicious, which would be much more effective than using just a search engine. Being able to look for good sites using MULTIPLE tags enable us to do almost the same search on search engines. This saves my time a lot. Social bookmarking has allowed me to cope with the digital age more effectively.