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“Have to Get Better at Believing the Impossible” | a Look at the Future of the Web

Recently at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Kevin Kelly gave a great speech describing his thoughts on where the web is going.

He begins his presentation by stating that it was about 6500 days ago when Berners-Lee created the first web page. The internet began as something which linked computers. Next, web pages emerged and links were shared. Finally, the data within the pages began to become linked with each other. Mr. Kelly describes this process as un-structuring everything in the world down its most elemental form, and then restructuring it so that machines can read it. This restructuring…

TwitLit: Nano novels. Period. End of story.

I read about a recent Twitter-inspired story contest, and I decided to write this 140-character post about micro fiction. 140. With spaces.