Graph Narratives

BY PAUL FORD

A Graph Narrative is a special case of Hypertext, in which the structure and super-structure of the document is expressed as semantically typed links. Where you might see a book as a set of pages, a Graph Narrative is a set of nodes with connections between them. In truth, the term Graph Narrative may go away, but I had to call this something, since it is not a weblog by all but the broadest definition of weblog. So I'm going to go with Graph Narrative for a while and see if it sticks, or see if I can come up with something better.

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20030720160949-9401468210In a fit of pretentious pique, Paul Ford coins the term Graph Narrative because he can't stand the word “Weblog” any more.

A Graph Narrative is a special case of Hypertext, in which the structure and super-structure of the document is expressed as semantically typed links. Where you might see a book as a set of pages, a Graph Narrative is a set of nodes with connections between them.

In truth, the term Graph Narrative may go away, but I had to call this something, since it is not a weblog by all but the broadest definition of weblog. So I'm going to go with Graph Narrative for a while and see if it sticks, or see if I can come up with something better.