15-11-07

today we spent the lecture looking at what exactly media is. there were some creative ideas, but we agreed that a medium is a channel for transferring information, either directly or offset in either space and/or time.
we then put together a list of common internet platforms and made a first pass at classifying them based on whether they are offset in time

1. blogs
2. mashups
3. second life / virtual universes
4. wikis
5. chat
6. ip telephone
7. flickr
8. online games
9. auctions
10. mail
11. file sharing
12. commerce portals
13. tag clouds
14. sharing
15. video sharing
16. podcasts
17. bookmarking sharing
18. location based / geodata based
19. forums