1) The document discusses the idea of a more "writerly web" where open writing and user-generated content is encouraged through various interfaces and conventions. 2) It explores different aspects of a writerly web including read/write interfaces, user comments, formatting options, linking, embedding media, and human-to-human communication through hashtags and retweets. 3) While some human-machine interactions are less generative, lowering the barriers to participation can still help accelerate a more generative and open web where people can readily copy, reproduce, and build on each other's writing.

1. Writerly web:
Writing as an open web interface
by @bact at Mozilla Drumbeat #NSC1

2. Open web should be a writerly web.
Encourage expressions & interactions.
Writing privilege to readers (p2p).

3. Writerly web has many aspects.
“The author is dead.” Read/write web.
User-generated. Remix.

4. Largest user-generated content:
Text comments.
Easy. Cheap. Potentially generative.

5. To express links, media, formatting:
Everybody [btns] <mrkups/>-literate?
Every devices <mrkups/>-friendly?

6. Writing is a very generative technology.
Many of us know how to write.
By looking how other people write.

7. Look @reply, RT, #hashtag.
Free text alone, can do semantics.
[[wikilink]], CamelCase, *bold*.

8. Filtering: #hashtag in blog’s title ?
Auto-generated aggregated ‘planet.’
Openly deal with info overload.

9. rel="tag" and Microformats might work.
But that’s a little more complicated.
(And not, say, texting-friendly.)

10. Annotation: Free tagging is cool.
But no room in UI like one’s for SMS.
Tag feld?: Pixels, key presses, not inline.

11. Hyperlinks: I don’t know.
Machine-aided? Convention?
URL as a word: compact and meaningful.

12. Embed media: oEmbed
Type vimeo.com/8033, got embedded.
Machine-aided via API.

13. Styling: Inline formatting, Markdown.
*bold* _underlined_ ==Head==
:’( T-T ( っ・ ω ・ ) っ

14. Commands: “d username message.”
Dream on: “This is me ++p :)”
‘++p’ will activate phone camera.

15. Human-to-machine ([[link]], oEmbed)
Directive – less generative.
Pre-programmed. Human adapted to machine.

16. Human-to-human (#tag, RT)
Communicative – more generative.
Collective convention. Machine adapted to human.

17. While man-machine texting is less generative,
it still lowering the cost to participate.
Accelerate a more generative web as well.

18. Word suggestions, T9, etc.
Could aid directive texting as web interface.
As they do with communicative texting.

19. No empirical evidence.
Cognitive science. Behavioural Science.
Experimenting it.

20. I'm too spoiled with command line?
[yes/no] $ _
Ubiquity, Spotlight, Windows too.

21. Writing is transparent.
Have the source (Gtalk, Wiki, Wave.)
More readily to copy.

22. I start writing HTML by copying code.
I start writing wiki by copying code.
I start retweeting by copying code.

23. Generation J: Journalism programs have
new media covered http://bit.ly/4t5f4s
v:@paulbradshaw cc:@theniw

24. Proposing. Rejecting. Failing. Accepting.
Goes norm. Use less cognitive energy.
And that’s even more generative.

25. Voice- & motion-based interfaces.
Diffcult to copy/reproduce/regenerate.
Keypad still the cheapest & most accessible.

26. Love to see people investigate
further on writing UI :)

27. Campaign for Open Writerly Web.
Semantic URL, oEmbed, common
wiki/markdown format, etc.

28. @bact Arthit Suriyawongkul
Pedestrian-in-Residence
opendream.co.th