What Things are Called

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A quick note on what various things should be called.

Web3 Publishing:

What to call the revolution of tech-tools that promises a seismic shift to the publishing landscape?

When applying artificial intelligence, blockchains, a decentralized ethos, and a zoo of other elements, Web3 is the term du jour, but the edges of that term are still fuzzy.

What were the two things that came before? Can you have a Web3 work that’s not published to the blockchain? Can you have a work on the blockchain that doesn’t fit the spirit of Web3?

The term is still a moving target. Consider it a working title for the canvas on which we create.

Wordler Vignettes:

These Wordle-inspired stories started as descriptions to accompany my character art, but have evolved into a compelling world with deepening lore and a growing stable of recurring characters.

They’re little snippets in draft form, rough and typo-ridden, that may someday be cleaned up, expanded, and released in a longer form, but for now they’re just vignettes.

The vignettes differ from most other stories on the websites or Kindles. Unlike gated content or ebooks, these digital works can be collected and owned, traded or sold, given away or passed down through generations, just like physical books.

Cryptoversal:

I’ve been using Cryptoversal as an imprint, extending the brand from the Mythoversal project I started during the Plague Times.

“Crypto” means hidden, secret, or coded, evoking a set of computer instructions or a means of conveying secure messages that reach only their intended audience.

“Verse” can mean prose, but that word’s ancient root include many relatives that relate to turning or transforming. Verse in the sense of transformation appears, for instance, in “conversion” a process that turns one thing into another.

Cryptoversal as a pseudonym evokes creative prose driven by computer code, securely delivered, and having a transformative impact on its readership. When I’m working in the Web3 space, I am Cryptoversal and Cryptoversal is me.

ToMCAL:

Get ready for this. The ToMCAL is a Token-Mediated Co-Author License. It licenses non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide IP rights in a story or story world to the holders of a defined set of NFTs. The NFTs and the ToMCAL are linked together on a blockchain.

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