[Sigia-l] microcontent - a definition?

[Eric Scheid]

On 16/2/04 1:05 PM, "Joy Schwarz" <schwarz at mail.winnefox.org> wrote:

> Marion Walton defines it as, "... the short bits of text which carry
> disproportionate weight on a website."
> <http://www.writing.uct.ac.za/user/writing5.htm>

Saw that too ... not too confident it's accurate though since a summary
*paragraph* would fit that definition.

What do you think of this:

"... the short fragments of text which..."
               ^^^^^^^^^

But even this excludes things like email subject lines, since they are not
"on a website", and subject lines are not "fragments". Hmmm ... I'm sensing
that microcontent has a *component/linking* relationship to larger content.
Email subject lines, by themselves, completely stripped of their associated
email message, are not really microcontent anymore, just a bunch of data.

Does this make sense?

e.