Nardy and Oday

 The article by Nardy and Oday is a very interesting one. Before reading this article I only knew the term ecology as a scientific one. This article took the term ecology and created a new meaning to the word based on todays society. Information ecology is basically described as an environment that uses technology to build a relationship. Many might think this type of environment is a community, however that is not the case. Information ecology is a place where a common desire for learning and growing take place. This place could be a library, classroom or even an online website. Information ecology explains the foundation of exploring the importance of technology. With the growth of technology and its constant use, information ecology demonstrates the complexity and similarities we share with each other through these technologies. Information ecology is broken into components: diversity, coevolution, systems, keystone species, and locality.

Wikitravel is an example of an information ecology. The components of this website are all part of a system. It is a public website for anyone to access. You can visit wikitravel to learn and explore new things or your can visit it to add your own personal knowledge about a place. It is a diverse environment where people take their knowledge and share it with others. The best part of this information ecology is that it is a website. You can access this through a computer with the freedom to update, change, or add information. This explains technology in a nutshell (its constant change of information).

I am part of an information ecology here at the University of Rhode Island. I attend classes with other students in my major and we share the same goal. We are all following the universities criteria to graduate and we all share the passion to learn. We all go through changes together (webmail/gmail) and we are all constantly learning and growing.