 | 
  • If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.

  • You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

View
 

FrontPage

This version was saved 14 years, 10 months ago View current version     Page history
Saved by Stowe Boyd
on June 2, 2009 at 4:13:01 am
 

Microsyntax.org (in 140 characters)

 

Microsyntax.org is a non-profit focused on identifying, researching and finding consensus on information syntax within Twitter messages.

 

Microsyntax (in one paragraph)

 

Conventions -- or information patterns -- for various sorts of information content in Twitter messages have appeared in many ways. The use of '@jennalee' to indicate a reply to or a mention of another Twitter user has been adopted by the authors of Twitter, but the great majority of future microsyntax will not undergo the same sort of standardization by fiat. Instead, a generalized sort of experimentation is going on, a sort of competition among various ideas for adding a higher degree of structure to the form of Twitter messages, like the emergence of hashtags ('#sxsw'), the adoption of stock tickers ('$AAPL'), and the newly proposed geoslash for location ('/San Francisco CA/'). These conventions are intended to be both human- and machine-readable, and our goal here is

 

  1. to identify microsyntax in the field, as users or applications begin to apply it
  2. to characterize the semantics of the microsyntactic conventions we find or community members propose, and
  3. to work toward consensus when alternative and incompatible conventions have been introduced or proposed.

 

In a sense, we are focusing very much on the tactical level here. We will link to theoretical opinions (see Theory), but the purpose of this wiki is to identify and characterize what is going on, organically, in the open web, and to create a forum where we can discuss how to find common ground when disagreements arise. 

 

More about Microsyntax

 

Microsyntax.org: A Messifesto 

 

Organization Of This Wiki

 

This wiki is designed to have four major subsections:

 

  1. Noodling - an open area where people can pose questions, interact in an unstructured way, and find their way.
  2. Sightings - reporting on new microsyntax appearing, and discussion.
  3. Proposals - structured pages, outlining ideas for microsyntax, with forum for discussion, and use cases.
  4. Brainstorming and Research - people suggesting that some microsyntax is needed, w/out a detailed proposal.
  5. Theory - Links to long-format posts on microsyntax topics.

 

 

 

Comments (0)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.

 
http://microsyntax.pbworks.com/w/page/20869381/FrontPage?rev=1243941181
microsyntax.pbworks.com
CC-MAIN-2024-18
20177
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:4NFAOWRPIDTIKGRFFYBYD6DMWFMHDEKY
<urn:uuid:540cc65c-5b25-42ee-b94d-9c95ed8bb223>
2024-04-15T22:07:40Z
208.96.18.237
application/xhtml+xml
sha1:GKIIKMOTWWI26HURCKD2B5ALQEI3KCYN
<urn:uuid:9b34fcbc-936c-4bb8-b68f-dd6672233c35>
http://microsyntax.pbworks.com/w/page/20869381/FrontPage?rev=1243941181
response
<urn:uuid:f3f1e327-c7b5-4747-ae2c-2e53d29b8c76>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2024-18
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2024
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-159
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.5-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/