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Content About Content

   Content is more than just the words that you see on the screen. Content, when written for the web is about not only the words that you see on your screen but the ability of those words to interact with the internet. The Internet is an interconnected contextual web. The ability of HTTP or the hyper text transfer protocol is to interlink related concepts. HTTP was developed as a method of more easily referencing academic papers between geographically separated people. HTTP has moved on from its core beginnings and is now able to link together related content across the entire world. Content then becomes more than just the words that you see but also includes it's meta data, or the data about what the content itself is about. When writing for the web it is imperative that the content about the content is included. This is normally done via meta data and the hyperlinks that are within the content pointing themselves to related content, creating that interconnected contextual web. Fo