Objects are not building materials of the content in the Net because the two components of a network are nodes and links. I suppose subconsciously I have thought of the node as an object. In recent weeks I have learned things that make me realize that the node is not a container but a connector. I suppose we could call it a connecting object, but it is certainly not essentially a content object. Like the origin of the meaning of the word “node,” it is a knot. What we engage as meaning in the Net is not one or more objects; what we engage as meaning is a pattern that emerges as a pattern of connections among nodes.
Perhaps we do routinely create Net content (webpages, etc.) as content objects. At the least, we should always make such objects into connectors as well as containers. That would mean tagging them and SEOing them. Much more on this soon . . .
