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The Big Picture | 13 | |
Looking at What, Not How | 14 | |
Structure of the Book | 16 | |
Part I | ||
The Telephone Company for Computers | 21 | |
Computers | 22 | |
The Telephone Network | 27 | |
Clients and Servers | 27 | |
Summary: The Telephone Company for Computers | 30 | |
Files | 32 | |
Signals | 32 | |
Suck It and See | 33 | |
Files of Words | 35 | |
Visualizing Discourse | 36 | |
A Changing Relationship with Text | ||
Mesopotamia dot COM | 37 | |
The Solitary Reader | 39 | |
The Logic of the Book | 40 | |
The Flavor of Text on the Internet | ||
Hypertext--Connection Made Manifest | 42 | |
Breaking Down Barriers | 43 | |
What We Were After All Along? | 43 | |
Files of Pictures | 45 | |
Image File Guts-Pictures as 0s and 1s | 46 | |
Pictures are Cool | 47 | |
Visual Knowledge | 48 | |
Photographs | 49 | |
Art | 50 | |
Files of Sound and Motion | 52 | |
Sound as 0s and 1s | 52 | |
Streaming Audio | 53 | |
MP3 | 54 | |
Internet Radio | 56 | |
Broadcasting Internet Radio | 58 | |
Video on the Web | 59 | |
Files of Logic | 61 | |
Smart Servers | 62 | |
Smart Servers-Business to Business | 65 | |
Smart Clients | 66 | |
Downloading Programs | 66 | |
The Telephone Company for Computers | 67 | |
Part II | ||
Open Standards | 71 | |
Standards and Communication | 71 | |
File Types | 72 | |
File Standards | 73 | |
Standards and the Birth of the Web | 73 | |
Standards Today | 74 | |
Open Standards | 75 | |
Open vs. Proprietary Standards | 76 | |
Open Standards and Growth | 77 | |
The Power of Cooperation | 78 | |
Searching the Web | 80 | |
Push vs. Pull | 82 | |
Catalogs, Search Engines, and Portals | 83 | |
Mechanizing Meaning | 85 | |
Metadata | 86 | |
Sort of Meta | 87 | |
Real Metadata | 88 | |
Bandwidth and the World Wide Wait | 91 | |
The Local Loop | 92 | |
The Internet | 95 | |
The Internet Service Provider (ISP) | 96 | |
Traffic on the Internet | 96 | |
Bandwidth | 97 | |
Speeding up the Internet Network | 99 | |
Speeding Up the Local Loop | 100 | |
In the Interim | 101 | |
Speed in Both Directions | 102 | |
Broadband Solutions | ||
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and the Poor, Deaf Phone Company | 103 | |
Cable TV | 105 | |
Fiber Optics | 106 | |
Wireless Options | 106 | |
Accessibility Issues | 107 | |
Cost and Convergence | 108 | |
Why Bandwidth Matters | 108 | |
Content and Connection | 111 | |
Bundling | 111 | |
Bundling in a Broadband World | 112 | |
Bundling Access and ISPs | 113 | |
Public Networks Connect | 115 | |
Content, Connection and Convergence | 115 | |
History Repeats Itself | 116 | |
The Pricing Issue | 117 | |
The Infrastructure Challenge | 118 | |
Part III | ||
Individuals in Conversation | 121 | |
Communication and Exchange | 121 | |
The Power of Publishing | 123 | |
The Power To Exchange | 124 | |
The Creator's Tool of Choice | 124 | |
Using Files for Communication and Exchange | 125 | |
Visualizing Discourse | 127 | |
Internet Time | 128 | |
Discourse and the Shaping of Content | 129 | |
Sharing and Amplifying Intellectual Capital | 130 | |
Formation of Community | 132 | |
Conveying Presence | 133 | |
Reaching the Niche Audience | 134 | |
A Small Corner of Cyberspace | 135 | |
Victorian Email | 135 | |
Enhancing Physical Communities | 136 | |
The Virtual Corporation | 137 | |
The Community that Created the Internet | 138 | |
Doing Good and Showing Off | 138 | |
Open Source | 139 | |
Transparency and Complexity | 140 | |
Cyberspace is Earth | 141 | |
Conversations Driving Change | 143 | |
The Free Flow of Information | 144 | |
Access Changes Structure | 145 | |
Everyone's an Operator | 147 | |
The Price in the Marketplace | 147 | |
The Marketplace Itself | 148 | |
A Market of One | 149 | |
An Outbreak of Sanity | 151 | |
Illumination and Formalization | 152 | |
Transparency | 153 | |
Epiphanies of Context | 155 | |
Welcome to the Renaissance | 157 | |
Glossary | 161 | |
Bibliography | 167 | |
Index | 169 |
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