hypertext

Does the hard back book matter?

The only way people could communicate on earth was through animate pictures, then language came into use with skilful writing, the only purpose of writing now is through text typing. Language has been the meaning of my life and is important to most humans in telling stories or making interesting stories keeping the book alive.

Writing and reading is a personal pleasure of mine through my mother’s personal library full of encyclopaedias, novels, biography, educational books, text books, (she’s a teacher) and my collection of magazines. I have always loved the look of my collection, the age, the colours, the different texts and images, has totally been wiped away with the lazy generation of a 290g Kindle. It takes the word minimalism to another level just needing a conventional chair;and don’t  even really need the table! These inventions are the e-readers- iPad, Sony Reader, Kindle, nook , Logic Que.

The collection of a great CD’s or movies are just epic. Going through someone home and see their personality its just like a perfume bottle collection just because the fragrance is finish doesn’t mean the bottle isn’t pretty. Everyone horde’s!

This e-reader of buying books online and keeping on one flat book is supposedly better than physically turning the page. The first time I read (well half a novel)on my phone, I just couldn’t do it. Scrolling down, every three words got annoying and the change of colour on the bright white screen didn’t help.

Cons

• ·         smaller saves space, lighter to carry

• ·         Having to charge it and more money, target of a thief, losing books by author

Pros

• ·          sight smell, cost, book stores, borrowing, cheaper, makes you look smart

• ·         Economical not good but it’s been around too long to notice

Hyper text has changed the meaning of literature from Aristotle simple matter of beginning, middle and end. Different theorists have different ways in the story structure and what belongs in a normal story (which is a representation of real life.) Even Propp’s list of characters is in all great stories and always will be in a great story. The natural structure of the simple nursery writing had evolved to Todorov’s Equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium breaking up the narrative.
Even though the story stays the same on the e-reader using the web can evolve the story. Games usually make the player go in one certain path, where as Heavy Rain the user has the option each time to make a new path, creating a whole different story. As I don't know much about games, this is a writer view on the game and its plots. But I find the plot brilliant in terms of a story and how it never ends; it just won three video game Bafta for its plot. This idea for a never ending story. Thumbs up to a good story line.

George Landow has a point made in 1989, “Designers of hypertext and hypermedia materials confront two related problems, the first of which is how to indicate the destination of links, and the second, how to welcome the user on arrival at that destination. Drawing upon the analogy of travel, one can say that the first problem concerns exit or departure information, and the second, arrival or entrance information.”

The web makes the narrative non-linear as it doesn’t have to be read or put together in the order to make sense. Barthes stated that the birth of the reader becomes the death of the author even with his semiotics codes and enigma in the 1950’s he understood how the evolution would change the new audience. 

The end of the book will not change but the lazy mind of the reader (evolving) will stop the imagination of the people, being too lazy to make their own story. The Truman Show film is a metaphor for the media and how instead of imagining a story, following a subject through is life and the story become real and never ending. This is includes hypertext and the media, and I feel that old-fashion can be good; stories can stay the same, because great text have no ending. The methods of how we read the story has change but can hypertext but the stop of the imaginative author.

Folksonomies (storage) and tagging

Has meta-data actually helped?

The general way to collection information has ceased from having to categorize by subject matter and then alphabetical filed. The internet has created a different form of categorizing, when it comes to social networks like Flickr, Tumblr and Twitter. Folksonomies and taxonomies is the new storage structure but for technology it could never be done.

Online storage has become a problem with sites that the user has the control to create the way the information is stored. Being able to tag people to this that have no connection to it; some pictures might be your leg and strand of your hair which is connected. Something’s that could be approved as random tagging is your mother, boyfriend or cat, because it has a straight connection. Tagging someone name into an update or link that has a benefit to that person, but silly pictures or events in Shanghai's has a complete irrelevance. This is the meaning of folksonomy; a total irrelevant way in a database. One thing I do like is the keywords on Facebook like typing in ‘Brighton’ and your friends that recently mentioned that word, will come up. This is how the search engine begins.

Google has the same ranking system which works well with one keyword but a more words cause problems. Instead of following the question exactly, it takes the words from different paragraphs in a site and just highlights the words even though there plenty of...  The problem when making a database is how general it has become like Pink Panther and the words would be pink, panther, cat, cartoon, yellow eyes, tail etc. YouTube can sort who it was made by, have a time frame of when it was uploaded to narrow down the search. 

Taxonomies have a rigid structure and which can’t be changed and facts and categorising stays the same. With websites things are set in a plan; fashion shows would be under fashion and beauty, not a scattered mess. Folksonomy are creative, but unreliable and creates an overload; tagging in blogs is important. I could tag to this post metadata, tagging, Facebook, totally brilliant which is my idea of how I would sum up this blog post. It’s being able to see the bigger picture and going beyond the normal collection of the human mind, which is the same for hash tags on Twitter.

This storage system in technology would have no point making life so much harder. This encrypted database would have no clue how things would work. As the user, I can make files to my use, but what the phone has filed I cannot change the filing. Example would be trying to store a MMS in Pictures just because it link doesn’t mean it will work.

This idea will never become redundant because it has a wider value on the internet, because it’s too big of a place to organise.  Just have to work with the storage plan; it isn’t Big Yellow.