Johnny's Web 2.0 Journey

There is a famous Chinese idiom "friends attracted to each other by mutual tastes," and I believe this two thousand years ago idiom vivid describe the nature of our modern popular notion "Personal Learning Network." Acc ording to Wikipedia, the PLN is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a PLE. In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that regard. "Personal Learning Networks can be described as 1.0 and 2.0. In the 1.0 stage, participants are mainly consumers of information. In the 2.0, stage participants are actually producing/creating information."  According to Lisa Nielsen. This viewpoint reminds me of another notion - "Produsage." More or less, we all carried "Produsage" tag living in the 2.0 era. "Produsage" and "PLN" are co-operating as indivi...

We all know that exercise is good for your health. That is no great secret. As the person who earned the undergraduate degree in physical education major and used to be a personal trainer, I believe I gained a greater awareness of the need for physical and mental fitness.  But with the development of social media, no matter you noticed or not, our personal excise activities have been subtly influenced by social media.  I am pretty sure you have seen some "Devil killer body" pictures on your social media at least one time. Or maybe you have read articles or posts some like "The best personal training plan ever,""How to lose 10 pounds in two weeks", these kinds of titles. People who title them as "fitness expert" always post their hot body pictures on Instagram to attracting more followers or "show off" their perfect fitness plan or records on twitter, youtube or facebook to get more "likes." Although those posts perh...

No cash? No credit? No wallet? That's not a problem at all. As long as you have your smartphone, your "WeChat" app, and your "WeChat wallet" connected with your bank account information; then you are ready to go.  WeChat is a Chinese social media mobile application software developed by Tencent company, which originally designed to send text messages, hold-to-talk voice message, video conferencing, video games, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing. But now,  WeChat users who provided bank account information are able to pay bills, order goods and services, transfer money to other users and pay in stores if the warehouse has WeChat payment options. In China, we have the tradition to hand out "Red Packet" to family and friends  and offer their best wishes  during the big festival or special date. We used to put cash in the red packet, but now we just need finger swipes on the screen, our family and friends can receive "Red Pack...

I went to the Aaron Bessant Park, Panama City yesterday for the so called the greatest 4th of July firework show in the gulf coast area. The Aaron Bessant Park was decorated with flags, banners, and other decorations embedded with the elements of national flag's colors. People who joined this great celebration equipped with national flag colors' face painting, national elements' cloth, national elements' garniture, and, of course, their smartphone. From two hours before Panama City Firework Show until the party was over. People kept twittering, posting pictures on Instagram, texting on the Facebook, sending messages, and hosting live stream. No matter what they were doing, there was only one topic that is "4th of July". I noticed that people were creating a magnificent carnival embedded with nationalism at social media in that 3 hours firework show party. Whenever and wherever you are, with your phone or other appliance which is online av...