Essay 2--smarter filtering

I have my own blogger with the topic of Swedish design with my nickname.I'm now going around stockholm to collect Swedish design and photographs information to represent them to China.I am doing this for interests and not taking business into consideration. The website is http://cookiedesigner.blogspot.com

Actually I think quality issue is difficult to define and I do not agree that quality of content really differiated between trational media and social media. Since their content both have high and low quality. I have read two books which are previously blogger and then published into books. On the other hand, traditional media may not always trustworthy since there maybe some policy control behind it and they can not tell story from a neutral position.

However, I think nowaways, we can use both these two media by different but maybe overlap purpose. Professional writers can give us more trustful informations but we can have more fun with more interesting, open and creative opinions in social media.

Generally speaking, the quality of traditional media is higher than social media. But the content quality of social media is going up. From the point of my view, social media is the future because social media has a lot of advantages compared to traditional media. The hyperlink technology make social media easy to understand and follow up. For example, if you meet with a difficult or professional word in newspaper, it is not so easy for you to find explanation immediately. But in social media, you can have a link to the explanation easily and it saves you a lot of time and energy. Another strength of social media is the new thinking of classified method which is tag or label. It is no need to have chapter name and catelogs. Instead, type key word in search engine, you can find relevant information easily. From my own experience of using BLOGGER, I have a thinking that why Google who owns BLOGGER do not give them simple catelog functions? The answer is simple, if you can find the information you need from search, why do you need chapters?

Another issue bother social media is the risk of anonymity. Actually from my point of view, no matter you use your real name or nickname or any symbol, it does not really make difference since any kinds of name is just a symbol of you. I will be responsible for what I am saying because the symbol is mine. But in general, people will feel less pressure when anonymy and it may cause more free or less trust which is impossible to measure.

In conclusion, I think the quality issue can be solved by person filter both in trational and social media. Social media is the future and the real problem to handle is to have smarter search enginee to help people find what they really want.