Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption
👓 Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens | Tom Critchlow
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)Month: February 2019
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)📑 Building a digital garden | Tom Critchlow
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)A blog without a publish button
I’m stealing this quote from my modern friend Ryan Dawidjan who has been pioneering this concept of open-access writing and blogging without a publish button. For a long time he has maintained a quip file called high cadence thoughts that is open access and serves as a long-running note of his thinking and ideas.
It’s a less-performative version of blogging - more of a captain’s log than a broadcast blog.
The distinction will come down to how you blog - some people blog in much the same way. For me however blogging is mostly performative thinking and less captain’s log. So I am looking for a space to nurture, edit in real time and evolve my thinking. ❧
I like the idea of a blog without a publish button. I do roughly the same thing with lots of drafts unpublished that I let aggregate content over time. The difference is that mine aren’t immediately out in public for other’s benefit. Though I do wonder how many might read them, comment on them, or potentially come back to read them later in a more finished form.
📑 Building a digital garden | Tom Critchlow
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)Some other interesting wikis
Credit for inspiration for this whole project comes from a variety of wikis and wiki-like collections on the web:
buster.wiki/ - Strong design and everything has a date by the looks of it which enables an RSS feed. Very polished and thought through.
are.na - A platform that all the cool kids use for building personal knowledge libraries. Lightly social, perhaps the right answer but slightly questionable if they’ll be around for a long time. Ymmv.
Brendan’s /canon - this was part of the original inspiration for me. A curated list of pure stock - things that Brendan returns to again and again. He has a template you can copy too.
Worrydream’s quotes page - just a massive list of interesting quotes collected by Brett Victor. Notice how being one giant page makes it instantly searchable.
daywreckers.com - from Ben Pieratt, not quite a wiki but a very minimal site designed to collect the dots. A daily visit from me.
derek sivers’ daily journal - a post from Derek Sivers on how to keep a text-file long-term store for your ideas and notes.
And there’s lots more too - this twitter thread has a whole bunch of interesting rabbit holes.
And, you can of course find this list of wikis on my wiki :) ❧
An interesting list here to be sure.
As I’m thinking about it I also have to think about not only my own blog cum commonplace book, but I do also keep a private digital set of structures in OneNote (primarily) as well as some data Evernote which serve a lot of the same functionality.
📑 Exploring the UX of web-annotations | Tom Critchlow
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)Especially on mobile. ❧
I’ve found in the past that highlighting on Chrome for Android was nearly impossible. I’ve switched to using Firefox when I need to use hypothes.is on mobile.
📑 Exploring the UX of web-annotations | Tom Critchlow
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)There’s also a robust ecosystem of tools to follow users, monitor site annotations etc. ❧
Wait? What!? I’ve been wanting to be able to follow users annotations and I’d love the ability to monitor site annotations!! (I’ve even suggested that they added Webmention before to do direct notifications for site annotations.)
Where have you seen these things hiding Tom?
👓 Exploring the UX of web-annotations | Tom Critchlow
Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)Looking at Hypothesis, Genius and Google Docs
🎞️ Mary Poppins Returns (2018) | Walt Disney Pictures
Directed by Rob Marshall. With Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives.
Pacific Theaters, Glendale 18, 322 Americana Way, Glendale, CA 91210
Screen 04
Seat: Row C, Seat 16
Rating:
Had to see it at least one more time in the theater.
Opening image of Marry Poppins Returns: the flame from a gas lamp
