{"id":1596,"date":"2013-06-10T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2013-06-10T15:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:09:43","slug":"see-the-connection-toward-a-wysiwync-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2013\/06\/see-the-connection-toward-a-wysiwync-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"See the Connection? Toward a WYSIWYNC Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keynote from Ted Nelson<\/a><\/p>\n

Talking about electronic literature for over 20 years. Felt alienated from the web because of ‘what it is not’.<\/p>\n

Starting with the question – “what is literature”? For TN – a system of interconnected documents. But the web supports only ‘one way links’ – jumps into the unknown. Existing software does nothing for the writer to interact with this concept of ‘literacture’.<\/p>\n

Constructs of books we have recreates the limitations of print – separate documents. Standard document formats – individual characters, scrambled with markup, encoded into a file. This thinking goes deep in the community – and TN contends this is why other ideas of how literature could exist are seen as impossible.<\/p>\n

For the last 8-10 years, TN and colleagues working on a system that presents an interconnected literature (Xanadu Space). Two kinds of connection:<\/p>\n