Sunday, September 20, 2009

The Machine is Us/ing us

This video is a good way of demonstrating the theme in Turnley's piece that the medium is an important part of the message. Using new media to demonstrate the evolution and power of new media is effective. I particularly like when he went into the source code to briefly explain the change from HTML to XHTML to XML.

Also, toward the end when he highlights blurbs from text about how we "teach the machine" when we click on links and tag information, I was reminded of Bush's "As We May Think," and his idea of an associative trail through information rather than something indexed and linear.

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