Alison Ruth


Thoughts on the nature of life, the web and everything.


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This page is a collection of my ideas about the World Wide Web.  Wienberger (2002) perhaps sums some of my ideas up quite well when he states:

The result is a loose federation of documents - many small pieces loosely joined.  But in what has turned out to be simply the first cultural artifact and institution the Web has subverted, the interior structure of documents has changed, not just the way they are connected to one another.  The Web has blown documents apart.  It treats tightly bound volumes like a collection of ideas - none longer than can fit on a single screen - that the reader can consult in the order she or he wants, regardless of the author's intentions.  It makes links beyond the document's covers an integral part of every document.  What once was literally a tightly bound entity has been ripped into pieces and thrown into the air. 

This is one of those things that I wish I had said.  Be that as it may, my views on the web are that we do create and recreate it all the time.  This is one of the reasons I have chosen to focus on Wikis and their influence on our interactions in virtual environments.

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