Web Semantics: Visual Editions, an experimental publishing house of reading...
*I’m rather glad that people in the publishing business don’t enthuse about “hypertext” any more, but web-influenced chimeras like this thing are, in some ways, even more disturbing. *It’s a “reading...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: the Internet of Things
*Hmmm. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard Kevin Ashton credited as the guy who coined the neologism “Internet of Things.” That may even be true....
View ArticleWeb Semantics: a glossary of the key terms in the NSA-GCHQ Snowden leaks
*Every subculture breeds an argot. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25085592 (…) “Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) “The term used by the NSA to refer to efforts to exploit data gathered from its...
View ArticleAnd Now It’s Time To Hear From Estonia
http://www.president.ee/en/official-duties/speeches/9796-qrebooting-trust-freedom-vs-security-in-cyberspaceq/index.html “Rebooting Trust? Freedom vs Security in Cyberspace” 31.01.2014 Toomas Hendrik...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: the decline of Clinical Standard Written English
*The print-classical versus the electronic-vulgate. http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/11/such-dfw-very-orwell-so-doge-wow/ (…) “You cannot escape computers any more — and that fact has affected language in...
View ArticleThe National Cyber Awareness System and the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games
*I appreciate the effort made here, but this is really a strange cultural artifact. Imagine reading this in 1985, or 1995, or even 2005. There’s scarcely a sentence in here which lacks some alarming...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Doge
*This is quite interesting and insightful. It alerts me that “web semantics” are bound to be replaced by some newer vernacular language that’s less web-centric; in the case of “Doge,” it’s the choice...
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Dark Patterns: user interfaces designed to trick people
*It’s great that these wicked practices have terms-of-art. http://darkpatterns.org Bait and Switch Disguised Ads Faraway Bill Forced Continuity Forced Disclosure Friend Spam Hidden Costs Misdirection...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: some synonyms for the Internet of Things
*There must be other ones. Industrial Internet (GE) Internet of Everything (Cisco) Web of Things (Ericsson) Industrial Internet of Things (Echelon) Smarter Planet (IBM) life.augmented (ST) Digital Life...
View ArticleWeb Semantics: Cyberspace security glossary
*It’s from the Italian government in their recent document “National Strategic Framework for Cyberspace Security.” This certainly is written in some excellent, technically-aware English. The English...
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