Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp for Publishers in Chicago. WCPub is an industry-focused WordCamp, held in different locations each year, which makes it a bit unique.
The “challenge” issued by the organizers for 2018 was the topic of “Taking Back the Open Web,” and they wrote that they wanted presentations “that touch on whether an open web actually ever truly existed, what state it’s in now, consequences of a closed web, and how publishers may protect and encourage an open web.” So I took them up on that challenge.
It ended being a fairly complex talk, as I tried to link together Benedict Anderson’s take on nationalism from Imagined Communities to a number of concepts about what might make an “Open Web.”
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