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MDST 3703 F10 Seminar 4
- 1. Seminar 4 The World Wide WebIntroduction to the Digital Liberal ArtsMDST 3703 / 7703Fall 2010
- 2. BusinessProject meetingsBe sure to sign upReading responses going forwardLog into the course blogCreate a postAssociate post with the category for the class, e.g. 09-14 ResponsesQuestions?
- 3. OverviewConclude Hypertext II by reviewing HyperlandBrief history of the Web as culmination of hypertext period and beginning of Web 1.0
- 4. HyperLandA documentary on the future of hypermedia created just as Tim Berners-Lee is inventing the World Wide Web
- 5. Digital RepresentationSee two examples: Music and Stories(Hyperland Quotes on course site)What do these have in common?
- 6. Both show shapes of timeeverything is informationshape = structure = code
- 7. Digital representation allows you to “see structure”shape = synchrony = everything-at-once
- 9. Hypertext?
- 10. Guernica example as hypermedia in both form and content
- 11. How does Hyperland envision the solution to too much information?
- 12. Agents
- 13. (agents are like angels)
- 14. Do the projects and technologies described in Hyperland resemble what we find on the web today?
- 15. A Brief History of the Web
- 16. The history of the Web is a story with three major subplotsNetworksHyerptextCommunity
- 18. Arpanet 1969First two nodesA military project (DARPA) to develop a network that could survive a nuclear attackhttp://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/ivh/chap2.htm
- 20. 1971
- 21. 1971
- 22. 1977
- 23. Hypertext
- 24. Nelson 1963
- 25. HyerpText
- 27. “From the moment people have connected computers to one another, we have been using them to talk to one another” Ethan Zuckerman
- 29. A paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your lifeSteve Jobs called it the conceptual forerunner of the World Wide Web and the Bible of his generationStuart Brand, 1968--1972
- 31. Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link 1985An early BBS, outgrowth of the WWC
- 32. HTML, HTTP, and World Wide Web
- 33. Berners-Lee brought the three subplots together
- 34. World Wide Web 1989Involves all three dimensions
- 35. How it works …Hypertext = HTML A language for documentsNetworks = HTTP A language for computers (clients and servers)CommunityPurpose from the beginningFocuses on how people use informationBoth HTTP and HTMP build this requirement into their architecture …
- 36. What is the problem Berners-Lee was trying to solve?
- 37. “the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems”The problem of knowledge management“Many of the discussions of the future at CERN … end with the question -- Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project?”“When two years is a typical length of stay, information is constantly being lost. “
- 38. How does the shape of data in the web match its intended social use?
- 39. [Although CERN is] nominally organised into a hierarchical management structure, this does not constrain the way people will communicate, and share information, equipment and software across groups.The actual observed working structure of the organisation is a multiply connected "web" whose interconnections evolve with time.The system must allow any sort of information to be entered. Another person must be able to find the information, sometimes without knowing what he is looking for.
- 40. Hierarchy = appearanceNetwork = reality
- 41. How is it possible to connect networks, hypertext, and digital community?
- 42. Networks connect computersHypertext connects documentsCommunities connect peopleEach mode of connection shares a common cultural logic (in spite of cultural differences)
- 43. A weird mix of military, hippie, hacker, and academic cultures
- 44. . . . sharing a common cultural form
- 47. Effect 1The social dimension overtook the computational oneWe still don’t have agentsNo true hypertext (according to Nelson)Instead, filtering has become socially mediated
- 48. Google 1999
- 49. Facebook 2006
- 51. We are left with social-semantic space
- 52. Effect 2The Network is the MediumLaws of the RealmMetcalf's LawPage RankThe Long TailConnectedness
- 53. Metcalfe's Law
- 54. Page Rank
- 55. The Long Tail
- 56. Six Degrees
- 57. How is content filtered in this new space?
Editor's Notes
- #30: The Whole Earth Catalog Now Onlinein Books | January 10th, 2009 2 Comments 0Share10Between 1968 and 1972, Stewart Brand published The Whole Earth Catalog. For Kevin Kelly, the Catalog was essentially “a paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your life.” For Steve Jobs, it was a “Bible” of his generation, a kind of Google 35 years before Google came along.
- #45: Sharing a common cultural form