Carving Up This Blog Post

The lecture this week was ‘Carving Up the World.’ It was almost a philosophical way at looking at how the internet works. The lecture was looking at the different structures of thinking, which developed onto the way we form patterns. Juss like there are set structures of how to publish a book (the title on the front cover, with the authors name, the logo of the publisher on the spine, a blurb on the back, etc.) there are now structured ways on how to present a website. These structures form a convention, for example when creating a website, a home page with navigational elements is a smart idea to use. Sometimes these conventions are good to follow, for instance driving on the left hand side of the road in this country is a convention that should be wisely followed, but other conventions are sometimes worth breaking. When working with the html and CSS, it is good to try to develop different ways to form and present a site. These new ways, help to expand the capability of the internet.
‘Carving Up the World,’ was really just a way to discuss the conventions of society in reference with the internet. The lecture basically discussed carving up the internet and dividing it up into chunks; this could dividing it up with the use of tags, a form of indexing, to allow the creation of new websites with the wonders of API’s. With the forever expanding internet, new ways to form this medium will be discovered, and with that new ways to carve the internet with be developed naturally along the way.