Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
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
After some work I finally got a subscription system set up for my website! Woot!
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Short story post soon to come. Keep it …
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 […]
I value traditions so new technologies always concern me as they are replacing all of the “old-fashioned” values. Kids no longer go out and play around with their peers as they have their own tablets, ipads… what-so-ever, you name it! Friends, sitting at the same table, do not talk to each other because they are busy with commenting and liking…
As a peripheral, unassigned-for-class blog post, I thought I’d share some possibly helpful stuff to do with indie video game development, which is a hobby I’ve recently gotten into. Since July of this past year, I’ve been developing a Pokemon game for PC. Obviously, since Pokemon is copyrighted material, I’m not doing this for money. […]
