Distance No Object » 404 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar Gina's E-learning and Digital Cultures site - part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:58:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Page not found http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/01/31/page-not-found/ http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/2013/01/31/page-not-found/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:56:51 +0000 Giraf87 http://edc13.education.ed.ac.uk/ginar/?p=716 Anyone reading online has experienced the ‘Page not found’ moment.

It is accompanied by a computer message revealing the number  404 … is this the internet’s doomed number…?

It is a curious event both for the ‘visitor’ and the ‘visited’…. in this timeless and digitally spacious medium, we are confronted with a closed door policy, a change of mind, an out of date, a rupture in communications.

High expectations are abruptly stopped, sales lost, ideas re-routed…

All of a sudden, we enter the world of databases, tags gone wrong, categories lost, protocol AWOL…

Administrators are notified.

A narrative that drifted.

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