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The World-Wide Web
April 21, 2009 | Tagged baylor_nms09 | 1 Comment
has gone a long way.
Who knew how complicated the internet is? The tool that seems to be the very center of many aspects of our lives actually started off with technical terms and goals set.
Pg. 797 “The Web does not yet meet its design goal as being a pool of knowledge that is as easy to update as to read.” This has definitely come to life.
I believe, in fact, that all the goals stated have been met.
Just as we do not call the web “W3″, I find it hard to relate to all these technical terms but find it very interesting to see how complex the web really is.
Project: I’m working my way through it. I have technical issues getting some music videos onto the site because all of them seem to have banned embedding.
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Interesting analysis. You’re absolutely right about the complexity, and how hard it is to see that complexity when the Internet is as ubiquitous and nearly as easy-to-use as air, sometimes.
Let me know if I can help with the project. I’d advise summarizing the content, and providing maybe one or two detailed transcriptions with detailed analysis. The embedding ban is actually an interesting sign of intellectual property issues. You could easily make these issues part of your larger analysis–and in fact, you probably should.