Week 5:

Comments:

Blogger:

To Mel on her post about YouTube and Libraries:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2377332459864294084&postID=6417367062252901942&page=1

Courseweb:

On Evelyn McCarthy's Muddiest Point:
https://courseweb.pitt.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_9047_1%26url%3D

Data Compression

The introduction of Zip Files was one of the best things to happen in file compression and information transferring. It’s nice to be able to take a bunch of large files, compress them into one file, and then extract them onto your own computer wherever destination folder you choose.
Compression is valuable as far as transferring data from place to place. People use compression every day. It’s nice to be able to send multiple large files through email after compressing them. Graphic designers sacrifice picture quality and color loss using the lossy method while compressing photos in Photoshop. Families compress home video footage so that it can fit and be burned to a DVD.

Data Compression Basics

I appreciated how the author stated what he wanted to say in non-technical terms to make it easy to read and thoroughly understand. This article and the Data Compression article seem to go hand in hand with each other. This article sort of picks up where the other left off and reiterates what was previously discussed. It was interesting to see the different styles of compression. I had no idea that there were so many… and being a graphic designer it was nice to see how compression is applied to images. It kind of reminded me of being in past high school math and statistics classes for some reason?

Imaging Pittsburgh

This was a great example of taking old photos and digitizing them for archival and informational purposes. It’s a great way to preserve Pittsburgh’s heritage and allow people like myself to access these photos without having to go to several different places. Using a keyword search engine is also a great idea! I really want to check this out and see how the project further develops.

YouTube and Libraries

From personal experience, I’ve learned so much about graphic design and screen printing that I didn’t learn in the classroom through watching video tutorials on YouTube. I think that librarians organizing this information will make it easier to find on the site. I agree that video libraries on YouTube is a great thing!

Muddiest Point:

This week was a pretty good read for me. I could relate to pretty much everything and that's a big thing when it comes to keeping my attention. I wish that there were more pictures from the Pittsburgh Imaging project... unless I totally missed the link (comments welcome). I use compression quite often but I still don't get how you can compress something to lets say, send through and email, and then decompress it to its originality? Maybe I missed the memo, ha!