Posted by: Ayanta on: February 6, 2009
The World Wide Web Consortium is an international association founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web), since October 1994. It has many offices all around the world, the central one being hosted by MIT/CSAIL in the USA.
The W3C is in charge of establishing web standards and developing programs related to [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: December 14, 2008
Even though HyperText Markup Language has been the most extended markup language since the appearance of the Web, recent steps towards semantic integration brought up the necessity of a new tool capable of administrating data. This led to the creation of eXtended Marked Language.
While the sintaxis of XML and HTML is similar (they were both [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: November 28, 2008
Paraphrasing has its value too~
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Walter J. Ong, well known for his studies in oral and written communication, coined the term “secondary orality”, describing it as “essentially a more deliberate and self-conscious orality, based permanently on the use of writing and print” [1].
Ong calls the electronic age an age of secondary orality. These are the main [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: November 17, 2008
Walter J. Ong presented the dichotomy between oral and literate cultures in his book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. In this book, he coined the phrase ‘secondary orality’, describing it as “essentially a more deliberate and self-conscious orality, based permanently on the use of writing and print”. Ong calls the electronic age [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: November 13, 2008
Scarcely revised version of this article, now with a more accurate title.
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Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He is considered by some an expert in digital culture.
In his talk at the EG 2007 Conference, Kelly estimates that today’s Web has [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: November 9, 2008
In earlier cultures, when writing was something only a very few could do, considering it a technology was not so difficult. Nowadays, it’s so present in our societies, that we have forgotten it’s a human creation, and we seem to take it as something granted, that is simply there naturally.
Walter J. Ong discusses this matter [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: November 5, 2008
Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He is considered by some an expert in digital culture.
In his talk at the EG 2007 Conference, Kelly estimates that today’s Web has about the complexity of a human brain and by the year [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: November 5, 2008
Web 2.0 is a term coined in recent years that describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to [...]
Posted by: Ayanta on: November 5, 2008
Hypertext, made famous by the World Wide Web, is most simply a way of constructing documents that reference other documents. Within a hypertext document, a block of text can be tagged as a hyperlink pointing to another document. When viewed with a hypertext browser, the link can be activated to view the other document.
History:
Recorders of [...]