Mirror, mirror?
We are very fortunate to be at a time in the internet’s ‘life cycle’, where we have the benefit of hindsight and can learn from the mistakes and challenges of the past (eg Goffer, Microsoft vs Netscape, Napster, Kazaa) and we can see a very bright future for communicating (Facebook, You Tube, Digg, del.icio.us, My space).
Web 2.0, ( 3.0...etc) and the semantic web will be fascinating developments in the next 5 years – will students studying Second Life in 10 years think that it’s naff? (remember how we feel about Blinkenlights and its Star Wars version now!), what will the first (developed world) generations to grow up with computers and the internet as normal seek and develop? How will the access gap to information for the populous of developing nations narrow in the years ahead?
How will society develop its communications in response to the internet? Which according to Vint Cerf, is "...a reflection of our society and that mirror is going to be reflecting what we see," (Ward,2004)
I have learned much about the emphemerality of the web, seen first-hand how active communication generates identity awareness (Go Owen!), discovered what metadata actually is, tried to shed light on and diminish the invisibility of difference and keep up with fast data and the paradox of the world wide web, become more aware of the rules of netiquette and attempted to make my communications more effective by combining technical and communicative competence (Allen, n.d.). Reflected on why a traditional library is so very different from the web, had a peek into the deep web and found whole new worlds of resources.
I’ve new and older technologies and put them into practise - eg blogged for the first time and created a very fundamental web page using html, gained an appreciation of the ‘pioneers’ of internet technology and applauded the geeks who invented because they required it , as Tim Berners-Lee states "A lot of ideas,...were developed by geeks who needed them...and I use ‘geek’ as a term of high praise..."(Farndale, 2008).
I am not sure that I am yet an 'advanced internet user', however, throughout this course I have developed even more of a fascination for the internet and its possibilities which, fortunately for us, all, are only limited by the human imagination.
Enjoy the future!
Cheers from Lulu : )
References
Allen, M. et al, n.d. Internet Communications Concepts Document (WebCT, Net 11 Studies) Retrieved 6 June, 2008, from http://webct.curtin.edu.au/SCRIPT/305033_b/scripts/serve_home
Farndale, N. (2008, June 21).World Wide Wizard. The Sydney Morning Herald. Good Weekend p. 50.
Ward, M. (2004). What the net did next.
Retrieved August 28, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3292043.stm
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Module 3 - Initial investigations
HTML, SGML, HTML - OR - The case of the curiously disappearing vowels…
I approached this task with great interest as, at work, I am usually writing content but it is manipulated and published by others. I (currently) have a very limited understanding of HTML (eg I knew that strong = bold in my parlance!) So this will be a great opportunity to understand how it works for ‘the other side’ of the process.
Before I started the tasks, I think that the differences between HTML and blogging are; with a blog you need to concentrate on your content – how you express yourself and you can let the ‘system’ take care of the formatting.
Using HTML, you need to also concentrate on the formatting the code is intrinsically related to (or combined with) the content (text, links text) “form and content became inseparable in html” Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us (Wench, M. 2007).
Using mark up which is “character text or binary codes 'added to' data content in order to convey particular information about that data.” (What is SGML, 1997) you have much more creative freedom in an html page that you create and also with usability and navigation elements.
Mark up is used to describe “ the nature, function, or type of content” (What is SGML, 1997) and not “…how that data content should be displayed, printed on paper, or otherwise processed” (What is SGML, 1997).
Blogs are restricted to what the blog software can offer you or what the application owner wants you to be able to do.
With HTML, you can create you own CSS (cascading style sheet) which is portable. It also means that identical content can be manipulated quickly and easily using a CSS.
A great example of this is the Zen garden, (Zen garden, n.d)
where the same content can be manipulated into various styles.
“Blogs …combine elements of hypertext with what is in many ways a much more ’linear’ form than most websites. This is because new posts are organised chronologically“. (Contributing to the Infosphere: e-writing?, n.d) is this a reason why blogs are so popular – because humans can relate easily to them back to them back to books?
References
Wench, M. (2007) Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us.Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Module 3, Contributing to the Infosphere: e-writing? (n.d).Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://webct.curtin.edu.au/SCRIPT/305033_b/scripts/serve_home
What is SGML? (1997). Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://www.isgmlug.org/sgmlhelp/exetwhy.htm
Zen garden (n.d)
Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://www.csszengarden.com/
I approached this task with great interest as, at work, I am usually writing content but it is manipulated and published by others. I (currently) have a very limited understanding of HTML (eg I knew that strong = bold in my parlance!) So this will be a great opportunity to understand how it works for ‘the other side’ of the process.
Before I started the tasks, I think that the differences between HTML and blogging are; with a blog you need to concentrate on your content – how you express yourself and you can let the ‘system’ take care of the formatting.
Using HTML, you need to also concentrate on the formatting the code is intrinsically related to (or combined with) the content (text, links text) “form and content became inseparable in html” Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us (Wench, M. 2007).
Using mark up which is “character text or binary codes 'added to' data content in order to convey particular information about that data.” (What is SGML, 1997) you have much more creative freedom in an html page that you create and also with usability and navigation elements.
Mark up is used to describe “ the nature, function, or type of content” (What is SGML, 1997) and not “…how that data content should be displayed, printed on paper, or otherwise processed” (What is SGML, 1997).
Blogs are restricted to what the blog software can offer you or what the application owner wants you to be able to do.
With HTML, you can create you own CSS (cascading style sheet) which is portable. It also means that identical content can be manipulated quickly and easily using a CSS.
A great example of this is the Zen garden, (Zen garden, n.d)
where the same content can be manipulated into various styles.
“Blogs …combine elements of hypertext with what is in many ways a much more ’linear’ form than most websites. This is because new posts are organised chronologically“. (Contributing to the Infosphere: e-writing?, n.d) is this a reason why blogs are so popular – because humans can relate easily to them back to them back to books?
References
Wench, M. (2007) Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us.Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Module 3, Contributing to the Infosphere: e-writing? (n.d).Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://webct.curtin.edu.au/SCRIPT/305033_b/scripts/serve_home
What is SGML? (1997). Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://www.isgmlug.org/sgmlhelp/exetwhy.htm
Zen garden (n.d)
Retrieved July 13, 2008 from http://www.csszengarden.com/
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