Text is linear.
Text is unlinear.
Text is said to be unlinear.
Text is often said to be unlinear.
Text is unlinear when written on paper!
Digital text is different!
Digital text is more flexible!
Digital text is movable.
Digital text is above all.
Hypertext is above all.
Hypertext can link.
Virtual anywhere.
Anywhere virtually.
Anywhere virtual.
Most early websites are written in HTML.
HTML was designed to define the structure of a web document.
<p> is a structural element referring to “paragraph”.
<LI> is also a structural element referring to “ List item”.
As HTML expanded, more elements were added.
Including stylistic elements like <b> for bold and <i> for italics.
Such elements defined how content would be formatted.
In other words, form and content became inseparable in HMTL.
Digital text can do better.
Form and content can be seperated.
XML was designed to just do that.
<title> does not define the form. It defines the content.
Same with <link> an <description> an virtually all other elements in this content.
They describe the content not the form.
So the data can be exported, free of formatting constraints.
With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web.
There´s a blog born every half second.
...and it´s not just text...
XML facilitates automated data exchange.
Two sites can “mash” data together.
Who will organize all of this data?
We will.
You will.
XML+ U and me create a database-backed web.
A database-backed web is different.
The web is different.
We are the web.
When we post and then tag pictures we are teaching the machine.
Each time we forge a link we teach it an idea.
Think of the 100 billion times per day humans click on a web page.
Teaching the machine.
The machine is us.
Digital text is no longer just linking information.
Hypertext is no longer just linking information.
The web is no longer just linking information.
The web is linking people.
Web 2.0 is linking people.
...people sharing, trading and collaborating...
We´ll need to rethink a few things.
Copyright
Authorship
Identity
Ethics
Aesthetics
Rhetorics
Governance
Privacy
Commerce
Love
Family
Ourselves
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