by KimBoo York | Jul 5, 2012 | History of Text Technology, Information Science
Two completely separate blog posts recently drove home the question of defining a text’s format. Is it a book? A document? A source file? Together they reveal the shifting nature of the definitions we use when we talk about publishing…or writing, or website...
by KimBoo York | Jun 2, 2012 | Information Science, History of Text Technology
Anyone who studies language knows of the intimate between symbols and letters, images and words. Egyptian hieroglyphs are the most recognized “ancient” language where those lines are blurred; the logosyllabic writing system of the Chinese and Japanese the familiar...