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Text is not what it used to be, and many things have changed with it.
Text is linear
Text is unlinear
Text is said to be unlinear
Text is often said to be unlinear
Text is unlinear when written on paper
Digital text is different.
Digital text is more flexible.
Digital text is moveable.
Digital text is above all…hyper.
Digital hypertext is above all…
hypertext is above all…
hypertext can link
hypertext can link
here
here
or here…
virtually anywhere
anywhere virtually
anywhere virtual
The WayBack Machine http://yahoo.com Take Me Back Oct 17, 1996 Yahoo View Source
Most early websites were written in HTML
HTML
HTML was designed to define the structure of a web document.
p is a structural element referring to “paragraph”
As HTML expanded, more elements were added.
Including stylistic elements like B for bold and I for italics
Such elements defined how content would be formatted.
In other words, form and content became inseparable in HTML
Digital Text can do better.
Form and content can be separated. http://www.cnn.com RSS XML View Source
XML was designed to do just that. http://www.cnn.com/?eref=rss_topstories
same with CNN.com
and
and virtually all other elements in this document.
They describe the content, not the form.
So the data can be exported,
free of formatting constraints. Latest News Anthro Blogs (124) Savage Minds 8apps: Social Networking for Productive People WORLD CHANGING ANOTHER WORLD IS HERE Antrho Journals (124) University of California Press Journals Digital Publishing Current Anthropology AESonline.org Google
With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web, I’m Feeling Lucky Create Blog Name Your Blog Beyond Etext http://beyondetext.blogspot.com Choose a template Your blog has been created! Monday, January 29, 2007 Hello World! POSTED BY PROFESSOR WESCH AT 8:14 PM 0 COMMENTS
There’s a blog born every half second
and it’s not just text…Search YouTube Broadcast Yourself This is a video response to The Beauty of Being Human flickr Ahoy mwesch! Upload Photos Anthropology club Created by you. KSU Anthropology club Club Photos Google
XML facilitates automated data exchange
two sites can “mash” data together flickr maps I’m Feeling Lucky Limelight Fluffy and white Brushy Creek Tokyo Delve’s Sushi B..
Who will organize all of this data? TAG del.icio.us
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Who will organize all of this data?
We will.
You will. Google
XML + U & Me create a database-backed web
a database-backed web is different
the web is different
the web
we are the web I’m Feeling Lucky WIRED
We Are the Web by Kevin Kelly
“When we post and then tag pictures
teaching the Machine to give names,
we are teaching the Machine.
Each time we forge a link,
we teach it an idea.
Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a Web page
teaching the Machine”
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the machine is us
Digital text is no longer just linking information…
Hypertext is no longer just linking information…
The Web is no longer just linking information…
The Web is linking people…
Web 2.0 is linking people…
…people sharing, tracing, and collaborating… Wikipedia Web 2.0 edit this page
We’ll need to rethink a few things…
We’ll need to rethink copyright
We’ll need to rethink authorship
We’ll need to rethink identity
We’ll need to rethink ethics
We’ll need to rethink aesthetics
We’ll need to rethink rhetorics
We’ll need to rethink governance
We’ll need to rethink privacy
We’ll need to rethink commerce
We’ll need to rethink love
We’ll need to rethink family
We’ll need to rethink ourselves.
by
Michael Wesch
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University
Digital ethnography
@ Kansas State University
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