When Douglas Engelbart read a Vannevar Bush essay on a Philippine island in the aftermath of World War II, he found the conceptual space to imagine what would become our Internet.
Bookmarked The Hut Where the Internet Began.
quick test
Economics and evolution are basically in the same business: Both are all about productivity selection, though one has been at it for billions of years longer than the other. Both involve “invisible hand” magic — intricate, unplanned, “self-or...
Folks who have been reading David Wengrow and David Graeber’s The Dawn of Everything are sure to appreciate the sentiment here which pulls in the ideas of biology and evolution to expand on their account and makes it a much more big history sort of thesis.
I’m reminded of Kate Raworth’s excellent Donut Economics as a potential remedy.
Raw capitalism mimics the logic of cancer within our body politic.
Elevator pitch for Tools for Thought
— TfT Hacker - Exploring Tools for Thought and PKM (@TfTHacker) January 3, 2022
How would you explain Tools for a Thought (TfT) to your friends and family in the most concise way possible?#TfT
P.S. Even with a good explanation, do you find they are interested? pic.twitter.com/0BApmIYgfK
Good tools for thought encourage or allow me to:
- Easily and quickly capture interesting ideas and their original or related contexts so I can artificially remember more of what I’ve seen, read, and thought.
- Link these ideas to related and non-related ideas and contexts.
- Dramatically accelerates the creation of new ideas with respect to combinatorial creativity and ideas having sex.
- Have a greater ability to focus on bigger ideas by letting me forget some less familiar minutiae. I can think more by remembering less though repeated good ideas filter up to the top and through repeated linking and use are more easily remembered.
I’m curious what the magnitude of order difference there is between the Twitter reaction to this book cancellation & those who actually dig back in and read Norman Mailer’s essay or James Baldwin’s reply?
Is it no longer the case that “any publicity is good publicity”?
ironic that Norman Mailer, who’d deliberately hoped to provoke controversy, is being repudiated/ censored in an age in which “controversy” is unfashionable because it hurts some individuals’ feelings.
today, issues are not debated, just deleted. https://t.co/ViRY9hfxBx— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) January 3, 2022
A junior staffer can get a book cancelled over a controversial, 60-year-old essay that sparked a brilliant, nuanced and thoughtful response from James Baldwin when it was published. We studied both essays in grad school and you could never understand the one without the other… https://t.co/Sni94qr5rq
— Thomas Chatterton Williams (@thomaschattwill) January 3, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Random House not moving forward with 2023 Norman Mailer book after staffer objects to his “White Negro” essay, from @MichaelWolffNYC @TheAnkler and confirmed by the author’s son Michael Mailer https://t.co/X261dOuB1Z pic.twitter.com/5WsnGHbB14
— Janice Min (@janicemin) January 3, 2022
I don't want to abandon shitter despite its toxicity and UI antipatterns without a real alternative. Mastodon has a similar UI and not much is going on there. Maybe there is another important indieweb platform I have been missing?
— Ingo Steinke (@fraktalisman) December 30, 2021
@MicroDotBlog is a lovely, full-featured platform that meets you where you’re at by supplying the pieces you may be missing. If you’ve already got your own site, you can plug it in and use it as a reader; it supplies notifications if you don’t support webmention; etc.
I tested out the OCR of the literal.club app. It’s alright, but not as good as my handwritten notes posted to my webite.
Hey friends, how do you take notes when you're driving / swimming / walking / running?
— Theresia Tanzil (@theresiatanzil) December 29, 2021
@theresiatanzil Usually via a pre-built memory palace for mobile notes, then I transcribe later.
Aegir (Aegir.org)I've been meaning to do some kind of index card style template for the site for ages and never got round to it. Now I have. I’m quite pleased with it. CSS repeating gradient lines and all that. ❧
An absolutely beautiful design for short notes. This is the sort of theme that will appeal to zettelkasten users who are building digital gardens. A bit of the old mixed in with the new.
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I worry that I may be putting too much faith in the seemingly magical powers of a new Hobonichi Techo to make 2022 a better year than 2020 or 2021.
Call for Interest: IndieWebCamp pop up session on Goodreads replacements and decentralized book projects
Based on some recent discussions with a variety of people I’m helping to organize an IndieWebCamp pop-up session on personal libraries online. If you’ve ever considered how to own all your own Goodreads-like reading data and still interact with others or you’ve got an website, product, or application that attempts to do this, this is sure to be your cup of tea (or maybe we should say “favorite genre”).
If you’re interested, comment or reply to this post, or add your interest and preferred dates to the IndieWeb wiki.
- Date: Sometime in February 2022
- Time: TBD (approximately 3 hours in duration)
- Streaming video/audio platform: Zoom
- Hashtag for the session: #DistributedLibraries
We’ll focus discussion on personal libraries on one’s site(s) and how they can interact with each other. How can we pool data and resources for the common good? How can we provide Goodreads like functionality in a decentralized manner? What pieces are we missing? How can we add them? Are there any easy ways we can standardize the pieces for better site-to-site interoperability? How can we interoperate with other projects like Mastodon and BookWyrm or data sources like Open Library?
Organizationally, depending on attendees and needs we may break our time up into two or three facilitated sub-sessions to focus on and cover specific topics of interest. If you have an idea for a sub-session topic (we’ll operate Bar-Camp style the day of the event) you’d like to see or facilitate please indicate it below.
If you’d like to help facilitate the session or volunteer in running it, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Want to start discussing the topic prior to the session? Feel free to meet up online in the IndieWeb chat.
We’ll try to announce a date around mid-January to provide time for people to reserve the time.
Yeah I'm happy to hand-import edge case things, I'd be very very happy with "75% of the internet's recipes can be imported into cooklang format and therefore into my #obsidianmd vault"
— Eleanor Konik (@EleanorKonik) December 25, 2021
I thought @KevinMarks‘ http://www.unmung.com/ tool might have some facility like this. I know he’d done some work with BBC recipes in the past, perhaps he knows of a custom tool(s) or parsers with better fidelity and conversion to either HTML or Markdown for Obsidian use?
An intriguing Christmas present from @iA !! The Notebook For Writers, where “the guides disappear — leaving nothing but plain, clear, aligned text.” pic.twitter.com/MiBCV0qtRj
— Craig Mod (@craigmod) December 23, 2021
If iA is getting into physical notebooks, I’m hoping they’ll also attach the other leg of the triangle with their app’s Micropub support and allow me to publish my handwriting to my website. See: https://boffosocko.com/2021/12/20/55799844/ for details.
Samuel Clay (The NewsBlur Forum)Sure, I’d love to support it. What’s the URL you want NewsBlur to share to? I can have it auto-fill in the title and url. Also, for bonus credit, what’s the url of the favicon?
There’s two different discussions happening here, one seemingly about posting to micro.blog and the other about posting to any website that has a micropub endpoint. Since micro.blog accounts all have micropub endpoints the second method subsumes the first.
In general most micropub clients authenticate using an IndieAuth mechanism which micro.blog also supports and this allows apps (Newsblur in this case) to send formatted data (an article’s title, URL, and a person’s reply, for example) to be published on third party websites. Developers interested in the pieces might inquire in the IndieWeb chat about the quickest and easiest method for implementing or to see some other examples and find open sourced clients/servers that already do most of the heavy lifting: https://chat.indieweb.org/dev. It would be great to see Newsblur added to the growing list of clients that can publish to independent third party websites.
Unless and until Newsblur were to support this, I notice that it does have IFTTT support, so one might be able to carefully write some recipes that allows some functionality to dovetail with any website that has a micropub endpoint. I’ve documented some similar work I did using IFTTT to get the Inoreader feed reader to post reads, bookmarks, and replies to others’ sites to my WordPress website using micropub. I would abandon Inoreader for a reader with good Micropub support.
h/t to Jeremy Cherfas’ post for bringing this to my attention.
Halsted (cygnoir.net)Diamine Inkvent, Day 23: Wonderland. If by “wonderland” you mean “Tang orange drink mix.”
Cygnoir, congrats on your new IndieWeb wiki template. I’m glad to have another pen/ink enthusiast tinkering around in the space. In case you missed it, I’ve been experimenting with handwriting and the web over the last month. Here’s a summary: Handwriting my Website with a Digital Amanuensis.
Different types of notes and use cases
In taking notes and making annotations recently, I’ve started a list of some of the broad semantic types I’ve come across.
Ideas
New ideas spurred by reading, potentially for future expansion and refinement.
Questions
Questions relating to the the text. What’s missing? What should have been asked or addressed? What biases exist that should be addressed?
Paraphrases
Paraphrases and [[progressive summaries]] of articles or portions of articles. Restatements of ideas which may be reused in other contexts.
Facts
Basic, usually new, facts highlighted for future use and/or [[spaced repetition]]
Quotes
Old school sententiae, aphorisms, and quotes for use in the future
Replies
Direct communication with others
Phatic notes and Reactions
Reactions, exhortations (Ha!, funny, ROFL, LOL, etc.), reacji, !, ?, ⭐, basic signs of life while reading
Others?
Are there any big holes I’m missing based on your experiences?