Carving up the world was conducted by lecturer Michael honey and entailed the introduction of space, in the real world and on the wide world of the net. This envisaged the concept of a physical object taking up a real amount of space, therefore once it occupies nothing else can. Whereas the web is a different story of which basically has a infinite amount of space thus allowing unlimited amounts of duplication. He also went through orders of things, such as a book has a certain format or structure, pages start in a certain sequence, hence left to right and down in the majority of cultures, a manner of which has been adopted of history ancestors, a cooked chicken when we eat it we dismantle it in section so as it is easier to dissemble and eat, carving up the world, learning from others that have walked the path before us. There are two things when dealing with the Internet that are different to that of real space-distance is the difference between online and physical space and (physical) scarcity - only so much stuff can be kept in ‘real’ places unlike the Internet where it does not matter how much duplicating is done, there is always enough room on the Internet.
A quote which was mentioned in the lecture that I thought was very worthwhile was - “limitations provide context. Without limitations, structure is required.”
Something for me to remember, two really cool sounding words that one might use when one has a beer with friends, Folksonomy -a way of managing tags to categorise content and Taxonomy of which arranges hierarchical structure.
