In addition to the thematic matter, the initial commissioned authors were invited to submit chapters using a blog or wiki format.
The networked book is a form that helps us reconstruct and understand the prolific and increasingly granular world of information that surrounds us.
The piece selects the most frequently used words from the major news networks to assemble an hourly "portrait" of our world.
The human editor/programmer creates the search and visualization function and the machine then collects, edits, and presents text and images according to criteria built into the program.
It is useful, in this case, to compare the processing of a networked book to the standard editorial procedures found in print culture.
The networked book is assembled, in whole or in part, by a community of authors according to the thesis imagined by the editor/author and within the space created by the designer and programmer.
In a networked book, content is generated and revised by the community and the various iterations of the text are often saved and can be returned to and discussed.
The readers have no part in this process and the revisions are only examined and debated in special cases, and then usually by scholars or authors, not by the general readership.
After the content has been generated by the community within the framework of the network book's thesis and architecture, the reader/editor implements strategies for marking out meaningful pathways through the material using search engines and visualization applications.