The Web Is… Read/Write

A presentation at The Web Is in October 2014 in Cardiff, UK by Owen Gregory

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The Web Is…

Read/write

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Except that it isn’t.

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To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs. — Georges Perec

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Georges Perec “Tentative de description d’un programme de travail pour les années à venir”

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When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort. — Sally Kerrigan

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Write about obscure things but don’t write obscurely. — W G Sebald

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Get off the main thoroughfares; you’ll see nothing there. — W G Sebald

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Sir Thomas Browne Musæum Clausum, or Biblioteca Abscondita; and The Garden of Cyrus

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W G Sebald Die Ringe des Saturn

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Writing is about discovering things hitherto unseen. Otherwise there’s no point to the process. — W G Sebald

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Frank Chimero “What Screens Want”

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Wilson Miner “When We Build”

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By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment. — W G Sebald

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Words are innocent. By using them without imagination, it’s us who make them hateful. — Umberto Eco

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Learn to recognize the approach of an ending, and when one appears, grab it. — Paul Graham

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Thank you