Response to two articles.

EverQuest: 77th Richest Country / The Blogs of War

I already know lots of online games though I am not a player. In Korea there are many online game players, and there are some problems between ‘virtual reality’ and ‘real reality.’ After I read this article, I searched “Virtual Realit” on online. I could find a game named “second life.” It is also an online game, but very different from others. According to my researching, there is no story in Second Life. Players can use anything as their avatars. In other words, the society in this game seems like real community. And in this game, there is virtual dollar named linden dollar. One real dollar is about 250 linden dollars. So, players can buy their estate or start their business using linden dollars. As the title of this game ‘second life’, players can build their second life. Second life is real ‘virtual reality.’ As this game is growing, some problems are growing as well. There are relations between real economic actions and virtual ones in the game. But it is hard to control virtual things in Internet. There are no specific rules between virtual economy and real one and it is invisible what rules we need. In my opinion, the biggest problem is that these are occurrences that are happened through Internet. Nobody can control Internet actions by now. As we can know through ‘The Blogs of War’ article, Internet information is very hard to control. And does this control is really necessary? If the answer is yes, then we have a major challenge: how can we achieve it? What is the right policy when it comes to Internet?

Internet is another big world. Everyone involves it. But the growing direction of Internet is equivocal. And Internet world and real world are very different things. Finally, can real reality control virtual reality?

Medialab

medialab.ifc.com

Among YouTube, GoogleVideo, film.com and medialab, I like the former's design most. The environmemt of medialab is very neat and is so arranged, so I could concentrate on videos easily. The other sites have so much information on the screen page that videos are playing and it bothers my sight when I watch videos. And medialab has very good quality short films. I found many videos about our daily life in YouTube or GoogleVideo, but in this site, videos are almost completely directed rather than just happened. I really enjoyed having an appreciation of these videos but I did not feel posting my video. Because mine is so amateur compared with them. Medialab is also big UCC site, but it does not have comfortable atmosphere that anyone can post any kinds of video like YouTube.

film.com

film.com

In this site, I could find out a lot of information about movies, TV, DVDs, entertainment etc. And information's format is like a newspaper. I could comment any kind of articles, and I could recommend it as well. The subjects of this site looked like very specify in terms of entertainment like movie, TV, etc. So we can get deeper and more practical information from this site.

Google Video

Google Video

Google is the biggest searching portal. When I visited google video for the first time, I could find very useful information. Although there are a lot of videos, information is organized very well. And google video has large range information from the entertainment video to educational video. But I could find people's private stories in YouTube more than google video.

This is Google Video main page.


After I logged in,


I could upload.




After about 3 minutes, my video was completely uploaded.


Here is my video in Google Video!

YouTube

YouTube_"YouTube – Broadcast Yourself."

Before I take this class, I’ve never posted videos on any sites. I heard YouTube is the biggest UCC site. So I decided to try to post on YouTube!

This is YouTube main page.

To upload my video, I clicked the ‘upload’ button.
But I had to log in.

I logged in. After that I could get a upload page.

I wrote some information and finally I uploaded my firstvideo.

Including the loading time, I took about 8 minutes to do it.

So easy!

Here is my firstvideo in YouTube

After I posted my video, I understood why YouTube is the biggest UCC site after. The process of posting was very easy even though this is my first time to post something. There are a lot of video, but these are categorized very well. Also I saw brief information of each video before I showed them. Most of all, I could feel very confortable to post mine because there were lots of amateur videos about daily life. YouTube keeps an open space to anyone and any kind of videos even though they are amateur videos and does not have an important message.

FirstVideo_Link_high quality

Click here to watch my First Video!

My First Video

09 / 17 / 2007 at the Tisch School