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- I design and build things with HTML, CSS, Javascript
- I’ve done work for VC firms, Fortune 500 Companies, and startups
- Sites with million+ visits per day
- Study of meaning
- Important for digital designers because...
- There is no limit to what you can do in digital
- We need things to make sense
- HTML is just a plain text file, formatted in a specific way. A "semantic way".
- The web is built on this simple idea
- Take content, make it meaningful, network it: that’s the web
- Cool things happen. I found this by searching “awesome”
- Open, Meaningful content is useful content
- Searchable
- Accessible
- Interoperable
- Every meaningful description is a facet you or a computer can use
- More information = better markets = better-off people
- The grand vision of the web: share our information
- relationship between info is meaningful
- EXAMPLE : Google
- US govt (NOAA) publishing machine-readable semantic data
- Data.gov
- Everyblock
- Future of journalism?
- Looks at LiveJournal, MySpace, Blogger, Flickr, etc
- Irony: it’s closed
- OpenScience
- But maybe your goal is as simple as getting eyeballs on your product
- Semantics helps you do that by making it make sense to computers
- With HTML!!!
- What is a markup language?
- How many of you use Twitter?
- What is a hash tag?
- Hash tag = markup language.
- A plain-text pattern that makes sense to humans and computers.
- Lets you add information to content
- <head> describing what the page is about
- Attributes: more specific description
- Standardized names for things
- hNews received Knight fellowship
- I design and build things with HTML, CSS, Javascript
- I&#x2019;ve done work for VC firms, Fortune 500 Companies, and startups
- Sites with million+ visits per day
