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Everyday, Internet users visit all their sites of interest looking for new content, usually to find out that only a few of them have been updated. Since updates rarely follow a schedule, the users are forced to go through every address, often wasting much of their time unnecessarily.
Some years ago, email subscription was the only […]

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Even though HyperText Markup Language has been the most extended markup language since the appearance of the Web, recent steps towards semantic integration brought up the necessity of a new tool capable of administrating data. This led to the creation of eXtended Marked Language.
While the sintaxis of XML and HTML is similar (they were both […]

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Paraphrasing has its value too~
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Walter J. Ong, well known for his studies in oral and written communication, coined the term “secondary orality”, describing it as “essentially a more deliberate and self-conscious orality, based permanently on the use of writing and print” [1].
Ong calls the electronic age an age of secondary orality. These are the main […]

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Walter J. Ong presented the dichotomy between oral and literate cultures in his book Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. In this book, he coined the phrase ‘secondary orality’, describing it as “essentially a more deliberate and self-conscious orality, based permanently on the use of writing and print”. Ong calls the electronic age […]

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Scarcely revised version of this article, now with a more accurate title.
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Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He is considered by some an expert in digital culture.
In his talk at the EG 2007 Conference, Kelly estimates that today’s Web has […]

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In earlier cultures, when writing was something only a very few could do, considering it a technology was not so difficult. Nowadays, it’s so present in our societies, that we have forgotten it’s a human creation, and we seem to take it as something granted, that is simply there naturally.
Walter J. Ong discusses this matter […]

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Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He is considered by some an expert in digital culture.
In his talk at the EG 2007 Conference, Kelly estimates that today’s Web has about the complexity of a human brain and by the year […]

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Web 2.0 is a term coined in recent years that describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to […]

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Hypertext, made famous by the World Wide Web, is most simply a way of constructing documents that reference other documents. Within a hypertext document, a block of text can be tagged as a hyperlink pointing to another document. When viewed with a hypertext browser, the link can be activated to view the other document.
History:
Recorders of […]

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The web, as it is right now, can only understand the meaning of specific words individually. It doesn’t have the ability to relate terms to each other and understand the meaning of a whole sentence, and thus it can’t answer questions by itself.
Let’s say we were to perform a search on Google, and ask “What […]

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Hypertext, made famous by the World Wide Web, is most simply a way of constructing documents that reference other documents. Within a hypertext document, a block of text can be tagged as a hyperlink pointing to another document. When viewed with a hypertext browser, the link can be activated to view the other document.
Hypertext can […]

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Web 2.0 is a term coined in recent years that describes the changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aim to enhance creativity, information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to […]

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