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The Good ‘Ole Days

I confess– before class on Tuesday, I had no idea what the difference between the Web and the Net actually was. Matter of a fact, going back to my last post, you will see that I used them interchangeably. That is going to be harder and harder to do as the days pass, apparently. And [...] Continue reading

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RIP Web

One of the first things I thought of when I read “If we’re moving away from the open Web, it’s at least in part because of the rising dominance of businesspeople more inclined to think in the all-or-nothing terms of traditional media than in the come-one-come-all collectivist utopianism of the Web.” in today’s assignment The [...] Continue reading

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Is the Web “dead”?

Responding to our latest prompt, “Is the Web dead?” has been quite challenging for me, which is why I’ve waited so late to blog.  To help answer this question, I tallied some arguments for and against the death of the Web from The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet. Some reasons that the Web [...] Continue reading

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Assignment #4 The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet

After reading Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff”s article entitled “The Web is dead. Long live the Internet” on Wired.com I really started to think about the truth to the “Blame Us” side of the discussion. As the number one consumers of the Internet and web we are to blame for the slow disappearance of the [...] Continue reading

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Assignment 4: The Web is Dead.

Today I read Wired‘s article entitled, “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet”. After reading, I was intrigued. I hadn’t really ever given much thought about how little I use the “web,” which I have recently learned is different … Continue reading Continue reading

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Assignment #4

I thought this article was really interesting. I never quite thought about how the things that I use online are actually applications, and not the web. I’ve been using facebook and skype for years thinking that I was using the internet- therefore I was on the web. But I guess this isn’t the case. In [...] Continue reading

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Assignment 4

If I had to pick one side of this article to agree with and give the blame, I would put the blame on us. We as consumers love anything that will go on the internet and bring information from the web to us in a simplified version. It gives us Facebook with just a single [...] Continue reading

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Google a Philosophy and the Web’s Younger Brother

There was a part in the article explaining that Google’s success was a result of letting go of controI, I realize this was a really small portion of the article, and I am probably going to focus too much on it, but when I read it I really thought how enlightening the concept is and [...] Continue reading

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The Web is shrinking and the Internet is growing?

I feel that saying the web is dead is a bit dramatic. Sure people are getting and using tons of apps on there phones, ipads, and whatever else but here I am sitting at a PC and blogging. And so are all of my classmates. The use of the Web is steadily decreasing but I [...] Continue reading

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The Web Is Dead Debate

The article The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff makes a valid point.  This article goes into the fact that people these days are not using the web like they used to.  Society has grown into the “apps” stage, where a lot of people are using their applications [...] Continue reading

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