Rachel Nevares

The title of the first chapter in Mark Briggs book, JournalismNext, is “We Are All Web Workers Now”. He starts off the chapter explaining how important the Internet and World Wide Web have become in the life of a journalist. One quote that sticks out to me is:

“But if we take online technology for granted, we can miss some important opportunities to leverage it to gather information better, to communicate better and to create better journalism”.

Listed below are the main points I took away from this chapter:

• The Internet is a network of connected computers that share lots of information while the World Wide Web is a way to access all this information throughout the network.
• A cache is kind of like a temporary storage file that saves all your downloads while surfing the Web.
• RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS serves as an information tool that delivers information directly to you via an RSS reader or Web brower. Saves TIME and puts everything in ONE place.
• FTP stands for File Tranfer Protocol. Basically it’s a process for moving files that are too big for simple e-mail to handle.
• HTML is the collection of various tags that tell a Web browser how to display it’s information on any given Web page. Ex: To bold a word you’d enter <b>word</b>.
• CSS is Cascading Style Sheets. CSS enables one to make changes to the outlook and design of a Web page.
• XML is Extensible Markup Language. XML serves as a complement to HTML and is basically customizable tags to deceifer what certain data is.

 

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Tags: Briggs, Internet, WWW