Discourse of Attention

This article was a very insightful perspective on the influence of media by adaptation to the “attention span”.  I found it very interesting that Sesame Street was produced to adapt to the attention of the children watching.  Growing up, I never watched Sesame Street so I can’t reflect on it, however the article explained the debuting episode and it seems like the show had rapid changes in scenes. The results of the testing they did even proved that Sesame Street was able to keep the viewers attention from external distractions.  It’s kind of creepy that this show was intentionally manipulated to capture and keep the attention of children, but at the same time it is fascinating how it worked!  It seems that ever since then, the way television shows are created use similar techniques to keep the attention of the views in all age ranges.  It amazing how there is a science in attracting people to staying in tune with television programming and the pilot program was Sesame Street!

The World Wide Web

Wow! This was a pretty interesting article.  I never knew what all those acronyms were until I read this article.  HTTP, HTML, and URI (or now commonly know URL) are all intertwined within each other.  It sounds sophisticated but in actuality it makes simple sense.  Also, I did not know that CERN was at the center in the creation of the Web (I thought Al Gore created it…just kidding).  Because the use of the World Wide Web is completely of the norm, I never really thought about how the different systems works together to bring a pool of human knowledge together.  I found the projection of the future of the Web extremely accurate to what we have today.  All of the points identified have happened for the most part.  After reading this article, I have a much better understanding of what hypertext is, and what was presented in previous reading of hypertexts in hyperspace.