After reading this document and being extremely confused I gained the following information. “It is intended that after reading this article you will have an idea of what W3 is, where it fits in with other systems in the field, and where it is going. There is much more to be said, especially about providing information,but this is described on the Web itself. Also in the “Web about the Web” are lists contributed research and development work and ideas, and pointers to work in progress, so that those interested can work together.”

A W3 “client” program runs on your computer. When it starts it displays an object normally a document with text and possibly images. Some of the phrases and images are highlighted in blue, or boxed, or perhaps numbered, depending on what sort of a display you have and how your preferences have been set.
“Highlighted “anchor” causes the client program to retrieve another object from some other computer a “server” so the process of navigation continues. When viewing some documents, the reader can request a search, by typing in plain text (or complex commands) to send to the server, rather than following a link. In either case, the client sends a request off to the server often a completely different machine in some other part of the world, and within (typically) a second, the related information, in either hypertext, plain text or multimedia format, is presented. This is done repeatedly and by a sequence of selections and searches one can find anything that is “out there”
I assume it’s talking about the program and I just hope there’s not too much of this awful article on our final exam, it had way too much tech jargon which I cannot follow.

After reading this story Virtual Death- A real Dillema, I say…wow. So this woman Debbie Swenson, a resident of a small town in Kansas, created a false person, Kaycee Swenson, and led people to believe Kaycee was real. Kaycee was portrayed as a girl with leukemia and on her blog gained friends and as her battle went on the number of people involved in her story grew. What is crazy, and made me say ‘oh my god’ after reading, was that a woman named Debbie Swenson actually made this character up, and didn’t reveal the hoax until after Kaycee’s ‘death’. People felt hurt and angered, and understandably so. Let this be a warning to all of us, a stranger is still a stranger, even more so on the computer. Something we are told growing up is not to talk to strangers. I don’t understand why people think that should go away as adults?

Marketers will find you

"All the internet really does is give those same market research firms more data to work with. What did we click on? What web page did we visit and for how long? Where did we come there from and where did we go next? This information helps create a behavioral model about us. It doesn't matter how sensitive the data; the imprint is just as real.” Hallarious the tivo comment that the viewer mentions his tivo predicted he’d like gay shows, because of the types of shows he likes I don’t think the commercial privacy bill of rights needs to restrict it’s campaign efforts although when it comes to sexual orientation, advertising sex or relationships (the infamous zoosk.com) and financial and health care we need to be protected. I don’t see the harm in them predicting I’d like devil wears prada because I liked princess diaries, or that I’d like a striped sweater because I bought a striped purse. These things can be beneficial and also I’m so interested in the field it’d be a shame if they illiminated it altogether.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Douglas Rushkoff.
the link is below-
https://sjsu.desire2learn.com/d2l/common/navBar/externalLink.d2l?ou=47388&k=c_16126

After reading the article about blooging and privacy, it seems the main topics people keep private are details about relationships arguments religion finances sex or emotions or postings about other people. When I think of privacy I think of hackers in my information, not keeping my thoughts personal. Because I remain anonomous I would love to express myself through blog, however I am extroverted. For some people it's not this simple."Therefore, the disclosure of personal information by bloggers appears to pose very unique privacy threats as expressive privacy plays a fundamental role in our lives. It enables us to choose and dictate the way that we will live, it promotes the creation of our self identity,and it allows us to enjoy a wide variety of social relationships and roles, including intimate relationships. " How private we are or arent on our blog either opens or shuts the door for other commmenters and social interactions.

it's as relative as the 'falling apple'

Something I gained from the reading ‘end of books’ was that hyperspace and text are two different realms, and the writer for hypertext must write for their audience accordingly. With the advent of kindle, ebooks and blogging I find the article really relevant for todays students, and the author makes a point to mention she isn't accostomed to online text(using a mouse) This quote from the article sums of her idea of what authors run into online-

"There is still movement, but in hyperspace’s dimensionless infinity, it is more like endless expansion; it runs the rist of being so distended and slackly driven as to lose its centripetal force, to give way to a kind of static low-charged lyricism-that dreamy gravityless lost-in-space feeling of the early sci-fi films. How does one resolve the conflict between the readers desire for coherence and closure and the text’s desire for continuance, its fear of death? Indeed,what is closure in such an environment? If everything is middle, how do you know when you are done, either as a reader or writer?” I love this quote because it’s relatable, and I love how the author mentions online, we tend to ramble I can so relate to this quote! I also loved the last two paragraphs of the article which mention the text needs to fit it’s audience, a change in mind and text, that’s as relative as the ‘falling apple.’ Hyperspace is a one way street, that leads to a culdesac, unlike text which is a two lane highway- this is the conclusion I’ve drawn from the article.

expressive power for the ordinary user

Wait…so the coupling of laptop meets ipad was invented in the 1970’s but never made headway? Really? I am confused as to whether this Dynabook ever made the market, but from the sounds of the article it was simply an idea. Using a pen on a display screen to draw This is so far in the future for an invention from the seventies! The macbook meets photoshop meets etc- a-sketch meets doctor databases.

“Expressive power to be useful to an ordinary user. At that time we became interested in focusing on children as our “user community.” We were greatly encouraged by the Bolt
Beranek and Newman/MIT Logo work that uses a robot turtle that draws on paper, a CRT version of the turtle, and a single music generator to get kids to program.”


“Second, the kids love it! The interactive nature of the dialogue, the fact that they are in control, the feeling that they are doing real things rather than playing with toys or working out “assigned” problems, the pictorial and auditory nature of their results, all contribute to a tremendous sense of accomplishment to their experience. The kids, on the other hand, are used to finger-paints, water colors, color television, real musical instruments, and records. “
This quote makes me think of Leapfrog the educational computer game for children. Even books with talking characters, the Disney books that have a button with the Lion King on it roaring gets the attention of a child because it’s interactive, they make something happen and get a result!
Working with kids for most of my adult life, I’ve noticed how addicted children get to video games, and that their attention is kept much longer doing things interactively. It makes complete sense, as adults we can spend hours shopping, online or in a group meeting discussing ideas, but get us in a room solitary doing one task, our minds tend to wander. I believe this same concept applies to children, but the idea that resonates with me was….
“Mathematics could become a living language in which children could cause exciting things to happen. “ I’ve seen programs on the Mac home computer that have games where a child can be an animal in the forest ‘discovering’ things in a scene of their choice. The scene is an opportunity to do math, using their character of choice. They find five butterflies in a jungle or un-turn flowers in a specific order ect.

“What would happen in a world in which everyone had a Dynabook?.A composer could hear his composition while it was in progress, particularly if it were more complex than he was able to play. He could also bypass the incredibly tedious chore of redoing the score and producing the parts by hand. Learning to play music could be aided by being able to capture and hear one’s own attempts and compare them against expert renditions. “This conclusion was striking and undeniable. We have ultimately created many of these ideas, however the key difference I noticed in the article was that children-teenagers were given the chance to program and bring ideas to workshops. I love love love this idea! I especially loved the music program that you can orchestrate with a mouse and then replay with the keyboard and alter the music this way.

The internet is an index, not a catalyst

Han continues to talk about physical space and how electric messages on television and broadcast meeting new modes of deliver defy that limit. It was a tough decision which page to site from~ I found two parts of this article especially intriguing, and the article rang the same bell as the Licklider paper earlier in the semester.”the Internet is an index not a catalyst of democratization and modernity a sign of the neo(liberal) west’s triumph over Soviet East communism. “ With the advent of the internet rural areas have the ability to offer services (and scams galore! online)

”Even our technologies foster democratic practices!” I iove this quote! I’d say that an index gives the backbone, but not the brain. I’d say the catalyst would be the brain in this analogy, and this paragraph really questions what is ‘true’ online. Just because it’s on the internet doesn’t make it honest, true, valid or well versed. The title of this article Technomedia made me wonder, what is technomedia? According to Han, it’s the marrying of media and it’s instrument (tv meets computer, tv meets gas station, radio meets tv and computer meets phone.) “Prior to the popularization of the Internet, media and technology were considered to be distinct entities.” The definition has come a long way from photography, radio on am, and film.”Technomedia is unlike prior media and technologies precisely because of its ability to break down and reconstitute the classic categories of knowledge, space, time, subjectivity, and politics upheld by philosophy information, and systems theory,””These changes allow us to scrutinize what it is that technomedia do. Are technomedia means of communication? If so, what do they communicate-human ideas or just “information’’? Furthermore, are information and human ideas mutually exclusive? By using language to transfer ideas so we actually talk to create new ideas and talk about our new ideas, it’s a cycle really. When I’m at work I talk with my boss about what project we will pull together by the deadline, then I think about the ideas we’ve spoken of. This allows me to make the distinction that yes, ideas and information are mutually exclusive, we need both to do either, but without one, lacks the foreground to the solution. This weeks article was my favorite thus far. Thanks for reading my mix mash of thoughts:”)