DocumentCode
1383138
Title
From Talmud folios to Web sites: HOT pages, COOL pages, and the information plenum
Author
Weiss, Edmond H.
Author_Institution
Fordham Graduate Sch. of Bus. Adm., New York, NY, USA
Volume
41
Issue
2
fYear
1998
fDate
6/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
97
Lastpage
106
Abstract
Home pages and Web sites remind us that once, before the printed page was HOT in the McLuhan (1965) sense, there were also COOL, nonlinear, interactive pages. Interfaces and Web pages resemble Talmud folios in interesting ways. Moreover, HOT pages and COOL pages represent competing notions of communication: the Hellenistic model, in which the world is an information vacuum to be filled by the communicator, and the Talmudic model, in which the world is an information plenum, absolutely full of knowledge and requiring guides and navigators
Keywords
Internet; hypermedia; technical presentation; Hellenistic model; Internet; Talmud folios; Talmudic model; Web sites; cool pages; home pages; hot pages; hypertext; information plenum; interactive pages; technical communication; Books; Marine technology; Navigation; Oceans; Printing; Professional communication; Temperature control; Web design; Web pages; Web sites;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0361-1434
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/47.678550
Filename
678550
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