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Feb 06 2011

Chapter 1 — We Are All Web Workers Now

Posted by rpaul2 in Assignments (Chapters), tags: , , , , ,

“Previous generations of journalists — and other workers in all industries — had the luxury of expecting some supergeeks in their organizations to take care of the digital duties for them. For better or worse, those days are gone.”

I really enjoyed the way in which author Mark Briggs began the first chapter of JournalismNext. He immediately outlines the things he’ll teach — how Web browsers work, how to make RSS (Really Simple Syndication) useful, how FTP (file transfer), HTML (HyperText Markup Language), CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and XML (Extensible Markup Language) work. In a nutshell, the chapter explains how to create a blog and an RSS feed (as well as how to subscribe one).

The chapter also outlines how Web pages are documents created with HTML codes stored on a computer that is running as a Web server and how a Web browser retrieves that Web page from the Web server. Additionally, Briggs adds that “in short, CSS makes Web sites look cool” by giving “Web designers the power to realize their creative visions in Web browsers.”

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