Writerly Web: Writing as an Open Web Interface (Mozilla Drumbeat)
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1) The document discusses the idea of a more "writerly web" where open writing and user-generated content is encouraged through various interfaces and conventions. 2) It explores different aspects of a writerly web including read/write interfaces, user comments, formatting options, linking, embedding media, and human-to-human communication through hashtags and retweets. 3) While some human-machine interactions are less generative, lowering the barriers to participation can still help accelerate a more generative and open web where people can readily copy, reproduce, and build on each other's writing.
![To express links, media, formatting:
Everybody [btns] <mrkups/>-literate?
Every devices <mrkups/>-friendly?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/writerly-web-arthit-20091212-091215063405-phpapp01/85/Writerly-Web-Writing-as-an-Open-Web-Interface-Mozilla-Drumbeat-5-320.jpg)
![Look @reply, RT, #hashtag.
Free text alone, can do semantics.
[[wikilink]], CamelCase, *bold*.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/writerly-web-arthit-20091212-091215063405-phpapp01/85/Writerly-Web-Writing-as-an-Open-Web-Interface-Mozilla-Drumbeat-7-320.jpg)
![Human-to-machine ([[link]], oEmbed)
Directive â less generative.
Pre-programmed. Human adapted to machine.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/writerly-web-arthit-20091212-091215063405-phpapp01/85/Writerly-Web-Writing-as-an-Open-Web-Interface-Mozilla-Drumbeat-15-320.jpg)
![I'm too spoiled with command line?
[yes/no] $ _
Ubiquity, Spotlight, Windows too.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/writerly-web-arthit-20091212-091215063405-phpapp01/85/Writerly-Web-Writing-as-an-Open-Web-Interface-Mozilla-Drumbeat-20-320.jpg)
Writerly Web: Writing as an Open Web Interface (Mozilla Drumbeat)
- 1. Writerly web: Writing as an open web interface by @bact at Mozilla Drumbeat #NSC1
- 2. Open web should be a writerly web. Encourage expressions & interactions. Writing privilege to readers (p2p).
- 3. Writerly web has many aspects. âThe author is dead.â Read/write web. User-generated. Remix.
- 4. Largest user-generated content: Text comments. Easy. Cheap. Potentially generative.
- 5. To express links, media, formatting: Everybody [btns] <mrkups/>-literate? Every devices <mrkups/>-friendly?
- 6. Writing is a very generative technology. Many of us know how to write. By looking how other people write.
- 7. Look @reply, RT, #hashtag. Free text alone, can do semantics. [[wikilink]], CamelCase, *bold*.
- 8. Filtering: #hashtag in blogâs title ? Auto-generated aggregated âplanet.â Openly deal with info overload.
- 9. rel="tag" and Microformats might work. But thatâs a little more complicated. (And not, say, texting-friendly.)
- 10. Annotation: Free tagging is cool. But no room in UI like oneâs for SMS. Tag feld?: Pixels, key presses, not inline.
- 11. Hyperlinks: I donât know. Machine-aided? Convention? URL as a word: compact and meaningful.
- 12. Embed media: oEmbed Type vimeo.com/8033, got embedded. Machine-aided via API.
- 13. Styling: Inline formatting, Markdown. *bold* _underlined_ ==Head== :â( T-T ( ãĢãŧ Ï ãŧ ) ãĢ
- 14. Commands: âd username message.â Dream on: âThis is me ++p :)â â++pâ will activate phone camera.
- 15. Human-to-machine ([[link]], oEmbed) Directive â less generative. Pre-programmed. Human adapted to machine.
- 16. Human-to-human (#tag, RT) Communicative â more generative. Collective convention. Machine adapted to human.
- 17. While man-machine texting is less generative, it still lowering the cost to participate. Accelerate a more generative web as well.
- 18. Word suggestions, T9, etc. Could aid directive texting as web interface. As they do with communicative texting.
- 19. No empirical evidence. Cognitive science. Behavioural Science. Experimenting it.
- 20. I'm too spoiled with command line? [yes/no] $ _ Ubiquity, Spotlight, Windows too.
- 21. Writing is transparent. Have the source (Gtalk, Wiki, Wave.) More readily to copy.
- 22. I start writing HTML by copying code. I start writing wiki by copying code. I start retweeting by copying code.
- 23. Generation J: Journalism programs have new media covered http://bit.ly/4t5f4s v:@paulbradshaw cc:@theniw
- 24. Proposing. Rejecting. Failing. Accepting. Goes norm. Use less cognitive energy. And thatâs even more generative.
- 25. Voice- & motion-based interfaces. Diffcult to copy/reproduce/regenerate. Keypad still the cheapest & most accessible.
- 26. Love to see people investigate further on writing UI :)
- 27. Campaign for Open Writerly Web. Semantic URL, oEmbed, common wiki/markdown format, etc.
- 28. @bact Arthit Suriyawongkul Pedestrian-in-Residence opendream.co.th