• High Resolution Addressability,  Implicit Linking

    Draft 2 for ‘symbol manipulation session’

    When presenting the keynote address at the World Library Summit in Singapore in 2002, Doug Engelbart remarked on his impression of the computer when he first came across it. This was in the era when computers were still used simply to compute, to crunch numbers. He said: symbols “I saw that we have a tool that does not just move earth or bend steel, but we have a tool that actually can manipulate symbols and, even more importantly, portray symbols in new ways, so that we can interact with them and learn. We have a tool that radically extends our capabilities in the very area that makes us most human,…

  • hyperGlossary

    Fast HyperGlossary Attachment

    Often when I write I want to refer to something a point I have made earlier in a blog post/article, such as a definition, an explanation or a point of view. I could of course switch over to my web browser, find my blog, click on whatever option lists what I have referred to as Glossary Entries or other relevant categories, then trawl through new and old and then copy the link, return to my word processor and add the link I think it would be far superior if I could create an organised list of HyperGlossary entries where I add a short and a long definition, along with relevant…

  • Authoring,  hyperGlossary

    Textual Symbols VS. Other Media

    I wrote this in order to have something to point to when someone (invariably) starts talking about text as it if will be superseded soon. This is the kind of post I would like to be able to cite/link to/hyperglossary when I am writing articles. How can we do that? How can I bring a long list of my previous work to be inserted at need? Speech Firstly, I’d like to address the notion that there is more information in speech than text and that speech is therefore somehow richer or more useful. In his groundbreaking book Sapiens (2014), Yuval Noah Harari wrote that writing was invented to solve very…