copyediting question: capitalize www?
Hi Everyone, Please excuse any repetition if this has been answered recently. I know that people are coming around to not capitalizing the word "internet" (this is my preference too). But what about "world wide web"? Best, --J
I believe you should capitalise both the Internet and the World Wide Web. I know this is a losing battle against journalists, but that is my view, Bill On 1 Nov 2011, at 09:32, Jonathan Sterne, Dr. wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Please excuse any repetition if this has been answered recently. I know that people are coming around to not capitalizing the word "internet" (this is my preference too). But what about "world wide web"?
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I hate to disagree with Bill, but I'm going to. I have stopped capitalising Internet, simply because just about everyone else (except for academic copy editors) has stopped doing it, a general shift which indicates the internet's mundane rather than Special or Unusual status. I use World Wide Web on occasion but depending on audience, usually "the web", for similar reasons. Cheers Jean On 01/11/2011, at 19:37, "William Dutton" <william.dutton@oii.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
I believe you should capitalise both the Internet and the World Wide Web. I know this is a losing battle against journalists, but that is my view,
Bill
On 1 Nov 2011, at 09:32, Jonathan Sterne, Dr. wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Please excuse any repetition if this has been answered recently. I know that people are coming around to not capitalizing the word "internet" (this is my preference too). But what about "world wide web"?
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William H. Dutton Professor of Internet Studies Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS UK
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Hi Everyone, el Tue, 1 Nov 2011 09:36:31 +0000 William Dutton <william.dutton@oii.ox.ac.uk> decía:
I believe you should capitalise both the Internet and the World Wide Web. I know this is a losing battle against journalists, but that is my view,
I fully agree. There's more internets than the Internet. IMHO, it's not like "telephone", "television" or "satellite" because there is just one big public common internet, "the Internet", and many private corporate internets which are not part of the Internet. The same applies to "the Cloud" and private cloud computing services. We can create our own cloud computing-based services ("private clouds"), but if we provide them to third parties "as a service" (i.e., SaaS, IaaS, PaaS), they will be part of the Cloud. I also use "web" and "Web" in a similar way. An intranet is a web that is not on the Web. Best, -- Pablo Garaizar Sagarminaga Universidad de Deusto Avda. de las Universidades 24 48007 Bilbao - Spain Phone: +34-94-4139000 Ext 2512 Fax: +34-94-4139101
As i recall, AoIR as an organization, we discussed this and decided somewhere back around 2005 that internet wouldn't and shouldn't be capitalized. I think that is a done deal. I personally don't think world wide web should be either. there is no 'the internet' nor is there a unified world wide web other than abstractions, and they aren't proper names either. there are a plurality of networks and internets, much like there are a plurality of webs.
Ok, Here's the link to Tim Berners-Lee webpage where he indicates how it should be spelled. I guess I would have to take that as the ultimate authority. (as fond as I am of the small-i internet). http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Spelling Cheers, Denise Dr Denise N. Rall, Research Assistant, School of Health & Human Sciences Artist-in-residence - Lismore Art in the Heart Presence at the Rocks PUP SEPTEMBER 14- 25 Wed-Sun Noon-7 PM 75 George Street, The Rocks, Sydney. Denise N. Rall, Mobile +(61)(0)438 233344 Fax +(61)(0)2 6624 5380 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Sterne, Dr." <jonathan.sterne@mcgill.ca> To: "<air-l@listserv.aoir.org>" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 1 November 2011 8:32 PM Subject: [Air-L] copyediting question: capitalize www? Hi Everyone, Please excuse any repetition if this has been answered recently. I know that people are coming around to not capitalizing the word "internet" (this is my preference too). But what about "world wide web"? Best, --J _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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