I got up bright and early this morning to attend my 1st NCT lecture. It was basically a very vague rundown of what we will learn about this semester. As far as I can see (and I may be wrong) out we will be learning about how the internet has changed the way we communicate.

Our lecturer, Josh, took us through all the ways we have learned to communicate. We started with oral communication and finished off with twitter and social networking sites like facebook and myspace. I HAVE set up a myspace page, but that was way back when it was cool and I've only ever looked at it like twice after I did set it up. Other than that I've never really bought into the whole social networking thing. It makes me feel a little bit out of the loop, but at the same time I'm just not interested.

Josh brought up a point that somehow clicked with me near the end of the lecture. The internet had been expanding our horizons as far as new information is concerned. These sites have lately been narrowing them. He didn't elaborate too much on the point, but it reminded me of this video I saw a couple weeks ago while just wandering around the interwebs.

Christopher Wiengarten is a freelance writer at Rolling Stone. He expects to be out of a job by this time next year. In this video he says some really interesting stuff about the blogger 'hive mind" and why it will kill off traditional critics and also how social networking is throttling our vision for new and interesting things.