HTML,  Hyper Text Markup Language, is important because it is the backbone of every webpage. HTML is a computer language that computer understand and generate websites which can be viewed to the public.

• HyperText is the method by which you move around on the web — by clicking on special text called hyperlinks which bring you to the next page. The fact that it is hyper just means it is not linear — i.e. you can go to any place on the Internet whenever you want by clicking on links — there is no set order to do things in.
• Markup is what HTML tags do to the text inside them. They mark it as a certain type of text (italicised text, for example).
• HTML is a Language, as it has codewords and syntax like any other language.

and now for some tags:

Bolded text

1. <b>Text goes here</b>
2. <strong>Text goes here</strong>
Italicized text
1. <i>Text goes here</i>
2. <em>Text goes here</em>
Underlined text
1. <u>Text goes here</u>
Changing font color
1. <font color=”red”>Text goes here</font>
2. <font color=”#0099ff”>Text goes here</font>
Changing font size
1. <font size=”12px”>Text goes here</font>
2. <font size=”large”>Text goes here</font>
Adding links
1. <a href=”http://www.URLgoeshere.com” target=”_blank”>Link goes here</a>
1. target=_blank indicates that the link will open in a new browser window; you may remove it if you’d like the link to open in the same window
Adding images
1. <img src=”http://imageURLgoeshere.com/image.jpg” border=”1px #000 solid” align=”right” />
1. border=”1px #000 solid” will put a black border around your image generated by each visitor’s web browser. The first value (1px) refers to the thickness; the second value (#000) refers to the color, which can be replaced with any web-based color name or RGB hex code; the third value (solid) refers to the pattern of the line, which can be replaced with dotted or dashed
2. align=”right” will manipulate the image to align with the text in a specified way; you may replace right with left, center, or justify
Adding a horizontal divider between sections on your webpage
1. <hr />
Adding a line break
1. <br />

 

yeah, thank me later~ teehee.

 

For all that, the book that
changes every time you read it, responding to your moods, your
whims, your latest fetish is, perhaps tellingly, a fantasy that has never been explored in print

with that said, this reading talks about how print and hypertext are different in a sense that for hypertet the outcome is variable because it allows the reader and the author to interact whereas in print, it is ‘set in stone’ which actually reminds me of the book examples adrian uses in our symposiums, print media is bound up by it’s fixity, the changelessness of its text. but hypertext allows choices as it is liquid.

Hypertext is a  network of texts and links, that is the form of technology, which in part two of the reading Douglas, J. Yellowlees mentions

Even a hypertext action as brief
as Joyce’s “Twelve Blue,” with ninety-six segments of text bound by 269 links, contains multiple sequences that feed into other strands,crisscross them, loop endlessly, or arrive at points of closure, with no single reading exhausting the branching and combinatory possibilities of the text.

Unlike print narratives, where each chapter builds upon the preceding one and leads to a single, determinate conclusion, the narrative strands in hypertexts can lead to numerous points of closure without satisfying the reader. Or the reader can be satisfied without reaching any point of closure at all.

it seems to me that hypertext allows users to have a choice and that it is the new and improved book that allows the viewer to decide on the ending that they want. However, i feel that books should not have a ambiguous ending where the reader decides, it’s like a open conversation that never ends because of the back and forth interaction, it’s just a little… mind boggling that we as human do not want closure.

This weeks symposium questions focused on about the art, culture and technology, the potential of hypertext and if we will ever be satisfied with it.

1. Can technology progress independently of art and culture?

Technology => Art => Culture The tutors had a discussion about it, one of them said that technology and culture are not separate and that technology came from artistic desires. I remember in one of my communication module i had a reading on what is technology and what i remembered from it was that Technology, is a body of knowledge that creates tool, develop skills, and extract or collect materials therefore, everything is technology, culture and art. Art is just a technology practice.

2.What is the untapped potential of hypertext? Will we ever be satisfied with it?

What Adrian said in the symposium to ans this question really resonated with me as I never thought about it this way before, he said that on the world wide web, everything is equidistant meaning to say that in a book for example, chapter 10 on the web, will be of same distance as chapter 4, 3 , 2 , 1. and this leads us to the concept of hypertext where there is a reciprocating function unlike a link and it works in the past, present and future. Will we ever be satisfied with the potential of technology? I say no. definitely not. We are evolving, our needs are evolving and therefore there will always be a demand for the next shiny new toy. one will never be satisfied hence greed is one of our 7 deadly sin.

 

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This is the first HTML page that I’m writing for network media. I have a blog and a second simple webpage too.

i am enrolled in network media in the School of Media and Communication.

              

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. Using an FTP client is a method to upload, download, and manage files on our server. 

FTP Clients:

• Cyberduck
• Fetch
• Filezilla
• Feign

However, we are using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)

Instructions to log in:

Server: proxy.rmit.edu.au

Port: 1080

Username password: student ID

 

I finally caught the hyped about show Lucy. I must say it really questions human abilities and also it reminds me of when i went to Dr. Michio Kaku’s (celebrity physicist) talk. The difference between humans and animals is the fact that they have no concept of tomorrow however, a dolphin is smarter than us using a higher percentage of their brain  and using sonar to navigate the seas and objects in them. Dolphin brains also have many features correlated with higher brain functions similar to human brains. Research has shown that they comprehend language, at least certain whistled commands. Captive dolphins also have been taught to answer yes or no when asked simple questions with about 75 percent accuracy.

If we can only access 15% of our brain imagine the  things we can do and how our society would be more advanced, Dr Kaku did mention that the internet is just a communication tool for the future, if we access 15% we can actually communicate with sonar waves. The possibilities are endless.

 

Edit: Today in symposium we talked about this electrowaves thing which kinda links to what i said here, we have electromagnetic waves flowing through all of us and we a re fueling the internet in a sense we are worker ants working for the queen ant aka internet.

First and foremost i would like to state after reading Team 3’s blog i believe that i am a failure of a blogger and a student. I went to Nicola‘s blog and i was pleased with her “Neslon” post as she inputs her thought about the reading and how she thought Theodore Holme Nelson would want us to read his published papers as well as that GIF where Voldemort is doing “I’m a slave 4 u”  <3

As for Marcus, i liked the fact that he post what happened in class discussion on single and double loop and what elliot had said in class on the train example which, by the way kinda makes sense. sort of. I too, like the fact that he was honest about not understanding even after discussion and how he was unproductive in class.

 

doesn’t mean you can write stuff doesnt mean you are network literacy.

form and content?  a substrate.

we all have literacy just not enough.

to be network literate you need to know more of the topic in depth?

we constantly rely on third party expertise to make our life easier.

Network literacy is, in a nutshell, being able to
participate as a peer within the emerging knowledge networks that are now the product
of the Internet, and to have as ‘deep’ an understanding of the logics or protocols of
these networks as we do of print. – Adrian Miles

Being Network Literate means to be able to link with individuals with the use of online resources. We are actively participating in this process unconsciously by acts of sharing post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.  like Adrian said, everything is weaved together like a blog post has various types of media on it but they all came from an individual source that I as the author of this post “weaved” it together by finding and putting it in a place and my blog post may become an individual source for another person and they’ll extract what is needed and weave it again. (come to think of it, it is called the internet for a reason. huh. lightbulb moment)

But i feel network literacy has a another simplified term which is know as Remix. Yeap, remix. I want to state that there is a difference between plagiarism and remixing as a copy cannot introduce anything new while a remixed artifact always brings in a new understanding. I feel that copyright laws is a wall that is blocking people from creative freedom. After all, media has been remediated all this while why try to stop it now?

Richard Dawkins on Memes and Genes and how they are actually similar. (it’s also about remixing)