A markup language is an artificial language that uses a set of annotations to text that give information about the structure of the text or how it must be displayed. The term ‘markup’ comes from the traditional publishing practice of ‘marking up’ a manuscript, what involves adding symbolic printer’s instructions in the margins. For centuries, this task was done by skilled typographers known as […]
Markup languages, from printer to the Web
diciembre 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Markup languages, from printer to the Web
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Second debate in the Moodle forum
diciembre 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Second debate in the Moodle forum
Human communication has suffered a constant evolution along the millenniums. When we study this process, the first idea that we should remark is the oral transmission of information. This ability is one of the most important characteristics of human race, allowing us to difference ourselves from animals and share knowledge in order to evolve.
According to […]
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Hypermedia, what are we talking about?
diciembre 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Hypermedia, what are we talking about?
The term hypermedia was used for the first time in the book No More Teacher’s Dirty Looks by Ted Nelson in the year 1965. We call hypermedia to the procedures to design contents including texts, videos, audios, maps… that are able to interact with the user. That is the main and most important characteristic of the hypermedia.
The first hypermedia […]
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Orality and writing, human communication step by step
diciembre 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Orality and writing, human communication step by step
Human communication has suffered a constant evolution along the millenniums. When we study this process, the first idea that we should remark is the oral transmission of information. This ability is one of the most important characteristics of human race, allowing us to difference ourselves from animals and share knowledge in order to evolve.
According to professor Walter J. Ong we could distinguish different […]
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Discovering Kevin Kelly
noviembre 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Discovering Kevin Kelly
When we think of people that have revolutioned the field of computer science, one name that always crosses our minds in first place is Kevin Kelly. Mr. Kelly is a world wide recognized conservationist, photographer, writer and, above all, digital culture expert.
Kevin Kelly has worked and published for extremely prestigious newspapers and magazines (New York […]
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According to Kevin Kelly, which have been the main transformations that have occurred in the transition from the Web 1.0 to the modern Web 2.0?
noviembre 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on According to Kevin Kelly, which have been the main transformations that have occurred in the transition from the Web 1.0 to the modern Web 2.0?
Kevin Kelly, author that we have been studying in class and editor of Wired magazine, has recently talked about the first five thousand days of the Web in an informal meeting at the EG 2007 Conference, where he, also, shared with all of us through a revealing video his main thoughts about how he thinks […]
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Let’s find out the hypertext
noviembre 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Let’s find out the hypertext
When we talk about hypertext we are basically refering to text on a computer screen that will redirect the user to other related information. Hypertext has recently become a huge innovation to user interfaces because it has been able to overcome some of the limitations that traditional written text presents. Instead of remaining static, hypertext […]
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