Hello everyone!
I begin this week with a discussion on digital text. From the shifthappens page, I click on the discussion titled, "Web 2.0...the Machine is Us/ing Us" and watched the Youtube video it presented. What started out as a video about digital text versus written text, it soon shifts into a four minute episode on the revolution of the digital world into the mainstream. There is talk of HTML, codes, and the internet in its early days, but the author, Michael Wesch, further paints a texted picture (ha, nice pun ;O ) via talk of teaching the "Machine" through tagging, web searches, and similar user inputs. It's really quite fascinating (with some extremely catchy music to boot) if you have a few extra minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
I begin this week with a discussion on digital text. From the shifthappens page, I click on the discussion titled, "Web 2.0...the Machine is Us/ing Us" and watched the Youtube video it presented. What started out as a video about digital text versus written text, it soon shifts into a four minute episode on the revolution of the digital world into the mainstream. There is talk of HTML, codes, and the internet in its early days, but the author, Michael Wesch, further paints a texted picture (ha, nice pun ;O ) via talk of teaching the "Machine" through tagging, web searches, and similar user inputs. It's really quite fascinating (with some extremely catchy music to boot) if you have a few extra minutes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
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