the evolution of writing on the internet

the evolution of writing on the internet
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This illustration says a lot about the evolution of writing on the web and our decreasing attention span.

A Very Brief History of Micro-Media. Credit: David Armano.
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over 3 years ago fabio liked this post.

over 3 years ago J.F. Ayel responded:

Yes, but long texts do not mean value... value is about links... so even very short re-tweeting is good if at least there is one link inside...

over 3 years ago Multagonal responded:

Funny and very true. Linking is just a means to getting to content. Content/text IS the key and the true value.

over 3 years ago J.F. Ayel responded:

Knowledge is a graph: nodes are contents, vertices are links. A graph without nodes or vertices goes nowhere. So links are as important as contents...

over 3 years ago Multagonal responded:

Knowledge is information, not a graph. Without this you have no intrinsic value. Linking to a blank page has no value. You need the content first, THEN you bring people to read it with links. Websites with no value to readers fail no matter how many links they contain. Links are important to connect the content to the web in general but if you place their value as equal or greater than content I think you make a mistake.

over 3 years ago J.F. Ayel responded:

Thank you for your good arguing, I love that, hope you too... your thinking is only weak about "knowledge is information": what is information... You cannot dissociate content and links... of course links without contents are poor value, never said the contrary, but as much as contents without links... Just try to think of one piece of knowledge in your own brain which is not linked to something else. Before hypertext, texts were very poor about links, that's where Internet makes the whole difference with printed books... Would you like to talk next time about retweet and why it is not zero value?

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