Monday, February 26, 2007

Notes on Ch. 2 of "Small Pieces Loosely Joined"

SPACE

-"McCollough Effect"-similar to an optical illusion... last for days though. Bill Cheswick (ex-Internet security guru) tricks you and just says type in "Cheswick"- not magical, just the browsers doing their job.
-He showed an image of fireworks or chaotic starbursts-- "This is a map of the Internet"
-the Net organized by clusters of connections, "space freed of geography"
-Tim Bray of Yahoo.. different map of Net
Ches vs. Tim = the global network that enables the Web vs. the Web = hardware vs. Web sites (software)

Is the Web spatial? yes
Is it measuring spacial or living spacial? Measuring in measuring link to link and memory and such. More living though because it is created and embodied by our thoughts and experiences.

-"Am I a Document?"
-3-D
-not a container where space is filled-- space is created-- can get as large as it wants to

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