How it all will go

HOME
On this page I will have the introduction that I wrote in one of the blog posts, as Pepper has said, I will have to talk about Manovich also. The way that I will introduce Manovich's principles is through short summaries and examples. I think that examples will help put his, sometimes boring, principles into an interesting, consumable form.

Modularity will apply to my homepage, because the homepage is the portal to all of the other pages. All of the other pages combined together make the site, and without them the homepage is nothing. I am combining many other elements to make one homepage (combining links to other pages of site), without the other components of the site the homepage serves no purpose.

HISTORY
On this page I will give a history as to why there is a rivalry between PC and Mac. The history needs to be know to understand the jokes, memes, hate sites, fan sites, etc. I will also include a bit of history of how the computer got started, between both platforms.

Variability will be applied to this page. The history page is the best place to showcase that because it is where it all got started, it can be added to also because the future that today was, will be history tomorrow. It is always changing.

FAN SITES, HATE SITES, MEMES, VIDEOS
This page will be devoted to the fanatic haters and lovers of MAC and PC. I will have links to other sites with short summaries of each site, memes that have been created both hate/love ones, and embedded YouTube videos of hate/love. This page will be exclusively for media that has been created by regular people (amateurs), not professionals such as companies, marketers etc.

Automation will be applied here because it is devoted to media created by regular people. I feel that this principle applies well because most of the stuff that will be showcased here will have existed digitally before these regular people (amateurs) got their hands on it. They just plug them into templates, algorithms, etc, to make their end product that doesn't require a lot of creativity to do so.

ADVERTISEMENTS/VIDEO REVIEWS
This page will be devoted to advertisements and video reviews made by professionals that pertain to each platform. I was thinking of specific commercials made by Apple (Hi I'm a PC and I'm a MAC ads), Apple bashing ads made by Samsung (iPhone 5 line queue where they are swayed to the samsung galaxy), older Dell commercials (Dell dude Ben Curtis). Reviews by CNet, PC Mag, Engadget of new products and older products.

Numerical Representation will be applied here because they will be taking old media forms (stuff made by humans) such as video, reviews that would have been in magazines and newspapers, and commercials for TV and print and encoding it into another form to be consumed by the masses in an online form (new media). They might also apply some effects in advertisements that were created solely by computer not by human authors. Numerical Representation is related to Automation (almost hand in hand), so I thought an amateur and professional theme would go nicely with these two principles.

COOL PRODUCTS
I though here that I would showcase some top of the line products that each platform has created to consume digital media, such as the iPad, iMac, Microsoft Surface, and Dell monitors. I would also talk about their impact on how people consume media.

Transcoding will be applied here because Transcoding is the computerization of culture. It is a blend of human and computer meanings. Since digital media must be consumed on computers, what better way to show Transcoding than through the top of the line devices on the market today!