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11:54 AM
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Top Ten for Hypertext
10) PLEASE Avoid busy backgrounds.
I was looking at things to avoid on Mark Markel's webpage. There was a background so busy that I couldn't even read the words, which defeats the whole purpose of the site. Yes backgrounds are nice but they aren't the purpose of the hypertext, so be careful when choosing a background, nothign too busy.
9)Use Effective Text
Don't have text so small that people who can normally read pages online, have to enlarge the view just to read it. And also don't put som much text on the page that we have to arrow down all day long. There's a limit to the amount of words that should be on one page, well there shoud be.
8) Create clear links
Since this is a hypertext that we are making, this tip will be very important. Links is what our hypertext is going to made up of so we need to do our best to make them presentable. Don't put things like "click here" for a link, be more specific. Where will htis link take the reader?
7)Avoid web cliches
6) Help the reader navigate the site.
You can't just create a site without any sort of direction. That would be like going to Magic Kingdom without having one of the maps that they give you. How would you be able to fine Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain. Basically how can people find what they want on the site. That is the helpful thing about hypertext, you don't have to read what you don't want like in a book.
5) Have a design or layout for how you want the hypertext to look.
4) Determining sequences for the article components.
3) Don't have banners that take forever to download.
2) Be simple.
1) Include extra tools someone might need.
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3:18 PM
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Respodong to Aub's Blog on MUDS and MOOS. This topic seems to be growing among many internet users. Thanks for the explanation because I was a little confused. I think this should be a very interesting paper since little is known about (or is that just me). I wonder why people join these things. I guess you're right people go there to escape reality and find pleasure in it. It seems alot like these virtual games, people are able to be anything they want and do things they never dreamed of doing. Being able to hide behind a fake identity really works for some people. It's the only way they get to relax.
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The Internet and all its advantages have truly made life easier in so many ways. We've come to doing business online, talking to close friends online and trust that it is and remains private. Little do we know who is out there watching and keeping track of what's being done on our computers? I think people have taken on the idea that they have the ultimate privacy online, but this is far from the truth.
A lot of people transfer information via the web, though it may get to its desired destination there is no guarantee that it hasn't been dropped off elsewhere. I didn't even know that could happen. I too had the understanding that everything is well secured.
Well having security is very important, but when someone invades your privacy online, little can be done. There are laws against viewing other people's email messages under certain circumstances. For many companies, employers can legally view employees email. I'm assuming they think that confidential business is at stake. I'm wondering are people really using email to sabotage the company they work for.
If so many online services offer some sort of privacy or security then why do they track the online activities of consumers. Just because they are providing the protection do, they have the right to protect from everything but themselves.
Security measures can also be made in the home. With many of these internet carriers parents can set up controls to prohibit their children from viewing certain sites. I think this is a plus of online security. Presently, the same situation is occurring but with public libraries. People are questioning if libraries have the right to restrict certain websites. I think they definitely can, it is a public place where kids can be found.
I remember when I was in high school the computers there were also secured to the extent where I couldn’t even playing online games. But of course, I would expect for them to monitor student’s activities.
Even if Internet Service Providers are aware, of what their customers do what can they do or what are they going to do with the information. I guess its all about principles. Consumers just want a safe and secure service, it’s no one else’s business what they do online. Not to mention the confidential information that other people are viewing.
I’ve heard about so many people becoming victims of credit card fraud, due to giving out their credit card number online. Another issue is these computer hackers that think its fun to steal other peoples information and use it. That is just as if they picked someone’s pocket and stole their wallet. Bigger steps should be taken to protect web surfers from all crime lurking out there in cyberspace.
It seems like this privacy and protection can work for us but it can also work against us too. It’s like we pay all this money to secure our online activities but the people we are paying are the ones looking in on us and our information.
This thing was like listening to church, lol. It was kind of confusing though. Lawrence Lessig was talking about what Walt disney did to Disney world. SOmehting about how they took terrible stories and turned them into fairy tales. Anyway he started talking about the whole peer to peer/file tradign situation. He was saying that sales went down only 5% with all the tradign tha occured in the past year.
He siad we need to change our battle, we can send all the emails, have all the blog sites we want but we need to go to the governmetn. I guess he wants us to send money so that we can be heard. I am really not completely understanding what is going on in this speech. I am going to read the transcipt to better understand whats going on.
Ok, he is talking about free culture. Free culture was born when copyright ended, some long time ago. Walt DIsney "stole" the idea of Mickey Mouse from this guy steamboat Bill. Walt "parroted feature-length mainstream films to produce the Disney empire, and we see the product of this. This is the Disney Corporation: taking works in the public domain, and not even in the public domain, and turning them into vastly greater, new creativity." I guess this is simiar to what we are doing today with all this file sharing.
Nowadays things aren't the same. we don't have the freedom to do like it wsa done many many years ago because there is so muc protections against creativty nd other people's work.
Richard Stallman in the right to read makes some good points. Times have changed so much and things are very much stricter than before, even in technology. I think the more people try to control it, the more other people try to get around it. Anyway he talks about how years ago publishers didnt charge money to access the work.
Well he talked about lending a friend a computer, which he could have been expelled for because he gave her his passowrd. So this was illegal at the time. It seems that back then they were able to monitor students whereabouts on the computer. Now adays this isvery much on effect but you don't really knwo who's watching. They were even punished as students for things that I'm assuming wasnt school work.