The Brave New Text, my book of essays about the metamorphoses writing and textuality undergo on the Web, is out in the world. It is now an artefact, a corpus of texts looking to find its own way into the giant intertextual fabrics of the Web. Now that I finished the boom, I have anotherContinue Weaving
Towards a Semantic Web Ethos [Book Excerpt]
Beneath every website, application, email, even under the tiniest tweet flow tons of data. Once linked, not unlike the documents we connect through hyperlinks, these data can create a whole new layer, woven in the Web’s fabrics. This layer is called the Semantic Web. Many paths enter the understanding of the Semantic Web concept. MostContinue Weaving
From Odes to Nodes [Book Excerpt]
“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans”, rhythmically went the first line of the Iliad, imprinted in the minds and hearts of generations of rhapsodes. It was the dactylic hexameter (the rhythmic scheme) of the poem and the poetic workings (the rhetorical power )Continue Weaving
The Very Essence of Writing Is: You Want to Tell Someone Something
I don’t have a formula for writing. What I have is something I learned from my professor in Creative writing. It goes like this: the very essence of writing is in your desire to tell someone something. So go ahead. Say it! Say it to me, explain it, don’t think about writing, think about transferingContinue Weaving
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