"[S]emiotics is the study of meaning itself -- or rather how images and words (like _semiotics_, for example) come to mean anything at all." (Via Steven Johnson, who says it's a good intro.)

"An international journal of semiotics and sign processes in culture and nature."

Introduces Lotman's concept of "the semiosphere". Three parts: "The Text as a Meaning-Generating Mechanism," "The Semiosphere," and "Cultural Memory, History, and Semiotics."

I learned that it's about semiotics, and this is just a random review to remind me to look it up further. (Thanks, Kjell.)

"[S]emiotics is not limited to interface design but may also contribute to the proper design of program texts and yield predictions about the interaction between computer systems and their context of use." (PDF)

Downwards causation, genre constraints, the formation and bifurcation of genres. Looks _very_ interesting. (PDF)

Is semiosis a strictly human phenomenon?

(Via Håkan Kjellerstrand.)

A review of Peter Bøgh Andersen's "A Theory of Computer Semiotics".

(via John Harris)