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Orality, writing and hypermedia

Posted in - IST, ● Littera, tagged , , on January 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Communication is a very important part of our lives. It keeps us in contact with the happenings in the whole world, but which types of communications can we find nowadays?
We could say that there are three ways of communicating: Orality, writing and hypermedia.
Orality is a verbal expression, and Walter J. Ong (American Jesuit priest, professor [...]

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RSS technology

Posted in - IST, ● Littera, tagged , , , on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

RSS are the initials for many different names such as “Really Simple Syndication” or “Rich Site Summary”. It is a web content that feeds the web by, for example, alerting users about new content on their websites or in other websites where they are subscribed.
 
This technology is usually used in sites that are usually updated, [...]

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HTML codes

Posted in - IST, ● Littera, tagged , , , , on January 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

HTML are the initials for HyperText Markup Language and it is the language that is used in the Web pages. It has nothing to do with what we see on our screens as it’s just different codes that make the structure of the site and make us possible to put a image in it. The [...]

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Web 2.0

Posted in - IST, ● Littera, tagged on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Web 2.0 is the representation of the evolution of traditional applications to web applications focused to the final user.
It was formed by Tim O’Reilly in 2004, and it refers to a second generation in the history of the Web, based in communities of users and in a special range of services, such as social networks, [...]

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Web = Internet + Hypertext

Posted in - IST, ● Littera, tagged , , on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Nowadays is almost impossible to imagine a society without computers and Internet. But, how do the webs we surf in really work?
We all know that in the beginning of an URL (Uniform Resource Locator) we always put www, but not everybody knows what those initials mean World Wide Web (we usually call it Webs to [...]

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Kevin Kelly

Posted in - IST, ● Littera, tagged , , , , , , on November 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Kevin Kelly was born in 1952, in Pennsylvania. He was dropped out of his university but his writings were published anyway in many important newspapers such as the New York Times or The Economist. He also became, some years later, the director of his own magazine, called Wired Magazine, and he even won a National [...]

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