Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
The Nugget In David Weinberger’s article, The Internet that was (and Still Could Be), he outlines the web’s greatest original attributes and how they have changed under the impact of dominating social media platforms. David describes the internet’s ‘original architecture’ and how the internet we see today still operates through similar principles. The platforms of … Continue reading Three. The Nugget
Even before I had made any presence on the web or on social media, I had an idea that the condensing of information into easily accessible tidbits or video, that are made popular by social media, were the future. It was largely the only internet that I had ever known and it seemed to make […]
I came under the weather on Wednesday with a severe migraine and proceeded into two days of a 101+ fever and high heart rate (thus the cause for delays and such). This is also the second domain name/blog that I began for the How the Web Works course, I cancelled the first attempt because it … Continue reading *Temporary Editors Note
Who Am I? My name is Alexandra Guess. I am a senior at Austin College, studying Classical Civilizations and Mathematics. The dream is to become an actuary, and my goal is to have the first two actuarial tests completed within the next six months. I look forward to documenting both my actuarial exam journey and … Continue reading Two.
“The Internet transmits information. The Web enables (stimulates, encourages) a set of connections that, from the first link to the enormous set of links we now experience, symbolize ideas about relationship.” The Internet is a way that computers connect to each other, but the Web is the way people communicate and share information to one […]
Sound the alarm! It’s the first short story post on this blog! I originally wrote this back in Halloween, but since the rest of my short stories are undergoing some revision I decided to post this one first. This story was inspired by a discussion I had with one of my artist friends and she … Continue reading Sansh’n ‘lglith →
In his article, “Iran’s BlogFather: Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are Killing the Web” Hossein Derakhshan speaks about how the hyperlink is losing its value, and social media sites want to keep users within their realms, treating the hyperlink more like an accessory than a necessary thread. “Blogs were gold and bloggers were rock stars back … Continue reading But What is a Blog?: Nugget Assignment
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This nugget is from “Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web” by Hossein Derakhshan. “Six years was a long time to be in jail, but it is an entire era online. Writing on the internet had not changed, but reading – or, at least, getting things read – had altered dramatically. I’d […]
“The foundational commitment in both the Internet and the World Wide Web is the same: both are built as “open, permissive” structures (to use Naughton’s words). These structures are not unlike the distributed (neuroplastic) design of the brain itself, one that, as it happens, permits all the higher orders of cognition to emerge, higher orders […]
