The relationship between Phillips — one of whose most famous works is A Humument, an ongoing-for-decades collage/manipulation/adaptation of a Victorian book — and Eno is a fascinating one in the history of aleatory or, as I prefer, emergent art.
Humument sounds interesting, particularly the descriptions of collage/manipulation
aleatory is a great word that one sees infrequently and all too randomly
Alan Jacobs seems to be delving into the area of thought spaces provided by blogs and blogging.
In my view, they come out of a cultural tradition of commonplace books becoming digital and more social in the the modern era. Jacobs is obviously aware of the idea of Zettelkasten, but possibly hasn't come across the Sonke Ahrens' book on smart notes or the conceptualization of the "digital garden" stemming from Mike Caulfield's work.
He's also acquainted with Robin Sloane, though it's unclear if he's aware of the idea of Stock and Flow.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Alan Jacobs</span> in July Check-In · Buttondown (<time class='dt-published'>07/01/2021 09:19:13</time>)</cite></small>
Idea of John Paul II's encyclical being a form of blogging in a different era. They're all essays in form, it's just about distribution...
Tell me on Twitter @bionicjulia and have your tweet show up below!
Or alternately write about it on your own site and send a webmention. :)
While the op-ed portion comes into play at the very bottom, there is some solid information, history, and questions here about the potential origins of Covid-19.
Fluffy's work here gives me such hope for the future. :)
I do wonder a bit about the potential misuse/abuse of sending tickets as notifications to people who don't want them.
Hopefully once the system is up and distributed it's relatively easy to ignore or block tickets from bad actors. Email spam is a similar model to this.
I've run into Phil Jones in the digital gardens telegram group, but not looked very closely at [[Cardigan Bay]] before.
Based on the idea of teh [[Smallest Federated Wiki]], Cardigan Bay is a wiki engine in Clojure which can be found on GitHub at interstar/cardigan-bay.
Be sure to invite Jones to [[Gardens and Streams II]].
For example, the Wikipedia article on Martin Luther King, Jr cites the book To Redeem the Soul of America, by Adam Fairclough. That citation now links directly to page 299 inside the digital version of the book provided by the Internet Archive. There are 66 cited and linked books on that article alone.
I'd love to have a commonplace book robot that would do this sort of linking process within it for me. In the meanwhile, I continue to plod along.
This article was referenced today at [[I Annotate 2021]] by [[Mark Graham]].
This article was mentioned/recommended by @RemiKalir earlier today at a session at [[I Annotate 2021]].
This is awesome and moves a bit closer in functionality for how one might use the platform as a commonplace book. Not sure how it's different to the main search except that it's geared toward smaller groups rather than the public timeline which is too large to view.
My first impressions:
via: Michael mention at IAnno21
Digital Social Reading · Works in Progress by [[Federico Pianzola]] (2021)
Federico mentioned this in the group chat at I Annotate 2021.
Part of the LEARN: Marginal Syllabus, Spring 2021
Resources:
eduardo galliano called in defense of the word
Recommended by Christopher R. Rogers
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Christopher R. Rogers</span> in (71) “You Can Still Fight”: The Black Radical Tradition, Healing, and Literacies - YouTube (<time class='dt-published'>06/23/2021 21:27:53</time>)</cite></small>
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'></span>Barrett Swanson Via: [Letter from Los Angeles] The Anxiety of Influencers, | Harper's Magazine (<time class='dt-published'>05/28/2021 11:26:47</time>)</cite></small>
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
I totally want this!
Looks like this is the sort of community that would attempt to put into action some of the ideas behind the book Ruined by Design.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>I Annotate 2021</span> in I Annotate 2021 | Program (<time class='dt-published'>06/19/2021 16:10:21</time>)</cite></small>
Bookmarked on 2021-06-20 at 7:19 PM
This sounds like lots of fun. Can't wait to see what comes of it.
Thanks for highlighting this!
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jeet Heer</span> in Freedom to Teach in North Carolina - The Time of Monsters (<time class='dt-published'>06/17/2021 09:41:33</time>)</cite></small>
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jeet Heer</span> in Freedom to Teach in North Carolina - The Time of Monsters (<time class='dt-published'>06/17/2021 09:41:33</time>)</cite></small>
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Art Kavanagh </span> in note (<time class='dt-published'>06/16/2021 06:24:59</time>)</cite></small>
Synopsis of two different methods for creating a Zettelkasten in Roam Research:
Nothing earth shattering here, though one must wonder about import/export of notes into other potential useful systems.
Nothing dramatically new here.
This is badass James!
The “bed of Procrustes,” or “Procrustean bed,” has become proverbial for arbitrarily—and perhaps ruthlessly—forcing someone or something to fit into an unnatural scheme or pattern.
It also makes your code harder to follower because you are using SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE instead of nice, readable methods.
This is a phenomenal way to do a look back at a year in reading. I'll have to consider how to pull it off for myself this year.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jeremy Dean</span> in ‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’ - The New York Times (<time class='dt-published'>06/09/2021 12:13:02</time>)</cite></small>
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Sam Anderson</span> in ‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’ - The New York Times (<time class='dt-published'>06/09/2021 12:13:02</time>)</cite></small>
Is Google Making Us Stupid?: What the Internet is doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr July/August 2008 in The Atlantic
Lynne Kelly's observation that oral cultures revised useful knowledge into their memories appears to me to be a simple precursor to annotation and the idea of the scientific method all in one...
More history here on the page than I would have thought.
Definitely worth digging into some of the older examples going back to [[Conrad Gessner]] and [[Johann Jacob Moser]].
This sounds cool. I sort of wish I could easily do this with my own WikiMedia install.
The Plaza maintains a Betsey Johnson-designed suite in honor of Eloise, the capricious six-year-old that fictionally lived on the property.
Because, of course they do!
read and annotated an unnamed .pdf copy
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>juanjosefernandez</span> in 📚-reading (<time class='dt-published'>06/04/2021 16:32:12</time>)</cite></small>
Seth Long takes a closer look at the number of memory treatises from 1550-1650 to come up with a more concrete reason for the disappearance of mnemonic imagery (and the method of loci) in English rhetoric and pedagogic traditions. Some writers have attributed it to the rise of more writing and publishing. Long extends Frances Yates' idea of its decline to the rise of Ramism by presenting some general data about the number and quality of memory treatises published during the time period in question. Comparison of this data with European continental publications helps to draw some more concrete conclusions.
In particular, he highlights an example of a Ramist sympathizer re-writing a previous treatise and specifically removing the rhetorical imagery from the piece.
von Feinaigle, Gregor.The New Art of Memory: Founded Upon the Principles Taught by M. Gregor von Feinaigle. London, 1813.
I thought this was in my reading list and my library, but perhaps it's not? Doublecheck.
Delaney, Ian, Kate Danskin, Erin Clinch, eds.William Fulwood’s The Castel of Memorie. CreateSpace IndependentPublishing, 2013.
Other treatises exemplifying the retreat of imagery from the fourth canon include Henry Herdson’sThe Art of Memory Made Plaine, which saw two printings in 1651 and another in 1654, and ThomasFuller’s 1641 bookThe Holy State and the Profane State, which contains a section“On Memory.”
Add these to our list.
Willis’s primary interest was shorthand writing—he is chiefly noted forArt of Stenographie—andhis memory treatise is clearly influenced by shorthand’s mechanism of one-to-one correspondence.
John Willis's Mnemonica (Latin 1618, English 1621, 1654, and 1661) covers memory, but he was apparently more interested in shorthand writing and also wrote Art of Stenographie.
I'll have to read this for a view into the overlap of memory and shorthand with respect to the development of the major system. Did this influence others in the chain of history? It definitely fits into the right timeline.
This is a dreadfully written piece which almost covers up the reason why one should open vacuum packed fish.
They spent more than a minute on this at a law school for a whole lot of bad press for what?!
The idea was pretty hilarious. I wish I'd done it.
Another problem was the ambiguity of RFC 3066 regarding the generative syntax. The idea of "language-dash-region" language tags was easy enough to grasp; most users didn't read RFC 3066 directly or consider the unstated-but-realized implication that other subtags might sometimes occur in the second position.
unstated-but-realized
a leap of faith?
This is sad news. I always managed to stop in and say hello to Montoya every time I was on campus.
The question is which one to choose?
I've always hoped that some of the Mastodon instances would build outside of the status update sort of content.
Some interesting discussion of UI and functionality in the reading app/site space.
You can see the implementation here: https://github.com/sveltejs/sapper/blob/339c417b24e8429d3adc9c9f196bf159a5fce874/runtime/src/server/middleware/get_page_handler.ts#L137
I like the idea of where Downes is going here in taking a book and turning it into a feed for a course.
Could professors create a syllabus at the start of the semester and then add things to a main class feed slowly over time in combination with feeds from various students to unroll the course over time?
It's just not what it was without Dick or his books.
Whether or not digital gardens should follow any standards is an interesting question.
What features/functionality should a digital garden have? Is there a canonical list yet?
I wish more supported Webmention to enable the Memex dream...
Ru does a retrospective about how much work and energy a static site can be to maintain a personal website.
As Sirianni documents, in the first months of the revolution hundreds of firms were taken over spontaneously from below by groups of workers forming factory committees. But as he also documents, the Bolshevik leadership sought very strenuously to hold back and reverse this wave of spontaneous expropriations
Interesting book of Carmen Siriani about the factory soviets.
Indeed, as T. H. Rigby demonstrates in his study of the formation of the ‘Soviet’ system of government in Russia
Must be interesting study to read about soviet Russia.
Downloading a copy of the paper to read.
Salvinorin A, a kappa-opioid receptor agonist hallucinogen: pharmacology and potential template for novel pharmacotherapeutic agents in neuropsychiatric disorders
I think this may be the best review of salvinorin A that I have ever looked at. I definitely need to sit down and read the full article at some point.
Doc Searls blames the cookie for poisoning the web.
It's important to know when gamification will work and be beneficial and to know when it may be harmful.
Lynne Kelly describes her experiences with some elementary school students using her rapscallions, songlines, and a woodhenge to memorize their math and social studies classwork and present it to their peers.
An overview of Milman Parry's life, work, and some of his impact on Homeric studies and orality as media.
Allows for text selections to be copied (refactored) into new notes and notes to be split into other notes.
He's at least trying to send the right signals...
Hooray!
Keep in mind that this may not be the actual email as received. It likely is, but since it's posted by a third party in a contentious situation, chances are that it may not be.
I'm wondering if it'll support OPML to mass import sites I'm already following elsewhere?
This appears to be an interesting change in Chrome.
Bloom’s taxonomy is a framework that suggests learners move from lower order thinking such as remembering and understanding, through to higher order thinking skills that include synthesising, evaluating and creating [26].
This looks somewhat intriguing:
Krathwohl DR. A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy: An Overview. Theory Into Practice. 2002;41(4):212–8. _2. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15430421tip4104 | Google Scholar
I totally want to read this book now.
This looks cool! I can think of some interesting applications, but the example here is pretty slick.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Kevin Marks</span> in "@alexstamos You gave a pithy quote about 'strangers' which downplayed the sustained attempts by the social silos to gather and document our lives in their dossiers and cash in on it. @matlock explains more here https://t.co/lo4dG4CuqV" / Twitter (<time class='dt-published'>05/18/2021 19:32:39</time>)</cite></small>
These sound like some interesting structures around which a community could easily and interestingly create content.
Worth delving into seeing how they work.
go-jamming is a cool looking Webmention sender and receiver, particularly for SSGs. It can be used to service multiple websites as well.
Requires a bit of configuration and build into one's templates, but it looks pretty well documented.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>KevinMarks</span> in #indieweb 2021-05-12 (<time class='dt-published'>05/18/2021 19:50:04</time>)</cite></small>
This is rather slick. It would be interesting to parse the root URL and show more context of the original author's name, avatar, etc. as well.
I am now definitely Team Maria!
I particularly enjoyed the California water commons, with its quiet nod to Elinor Ostrom’s original post-graduate research on emergent cooperation between county water-boards.
A quiet nod here in it's own right. Now I want to dig into Elinor Ostrom's research and work.
This is a rather cool find and I can think of a few ways of using it.
Being able to add widgets easily to the dashboard can be a highly useful thing!
Also having the ability to easily add an admin page in the menu could be incredibly helpful in this setting.
These all look interesting, but my primary worry is the ability to do cross-platform note taking with them. Perhaps worth delving into some more custom reviews, but the price points of these compared to my laptop versus the functionality and flexibility needs to improve greatly.
One of the toughest parts of note taking systems can be moving from one to another, particularly digital ones, as the technical overhead is almost never easy and typically requires a huge amount of work. Wouter's description here may seem facile, but I'm sure it wasn't simple, not to mention the fact that he's got more facility with coding than the average person ever will.
I do like the idea of basic text or markdown files that can be used in a variety of settings with relatively easy wiki mark up.
Of the systems I've seen, this seems to be the most portable format, but it also requires software that supports it at the base level, but which still provides search and other useful functionalities.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Wouter Groeneveld</span> in Digitizing journals using DEVONthink | Brain Baking (<time class='dt-published'>05/17/2021 08:00:06</time>)</cite></small>
A relatively comprehensive view of Wouter Groeneveld's commonplacing workflow. There are a few bits missing here and there, but he's got most of the bigger basics down that a majority of people seem to have found and discovered.
He's got a strong concept of indexing, search, and even some review, which many miss. There's some organic work toward combinatorial thought, but only via the search piece.
I should make a list of the important pieces for more advanced versions to have. I've yet to see any articles or work on this.
editor-browser tool sets
This hasn't happened yet, and is unlikely to happen anytime soon. We seem to be moving away from a read/write web, with authors only being able to edit content they've created on domains that they control. The closest I've seen to this is the Beaker Browser.
Definition of lexia (or French lexie).
The seminal 1890 Harvard Law Review article The Right to Privacy—which every essay about data privacy is contractually obligated to cite—argued that the right of an individual to object to the publication of photographs ought to be considered part of a general ‘right to be let alone’.
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Jenny</span> in left alone, together | The Roof is on Phire (<time class='dt-published'>05/08/2021 18:32:41</time>)</cite></small>
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article)
San Franciscans are mask shaming others for not wearing them outside despite recent changes in guidance by the CDC.
The problem here is the "if" you're fully vaccinated part, which 50% or more likely still haven't done, but are going maskless anyway.
An interesting take from a significant modern researcher/writer about commonplaces in the digital era. He's particularly enamoured of the fact that Evernote dovetails with Google searches to show details from his own notebooks which he's saved in the past.
Search in commonplace books is definitely a must have feature.
Some revisionist history here glorifying Bush and the Memex without any mention of the long historical precedent of the commonplace book.
Article about the renaming of Welsh place names into English which erases culture and history.
a very facile, introductory article. nothing new here for me.
This is a solidly comprehensive overview of much of what I'd want in my own personal reader. I'll have to revisit it as I'm reading and using other readers to see if there are any other pieces missing.
Being able to sort by social distance, by community/tags, and by posting frequency and/or post type (ie separating articles from notes from bookmarks, etc) would be some of the bigger must haves.
Cycling Anatomy, Second Edition
This doesn't look good at all... Freenode is apparently being taken over with some corporate chicanery?
<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>JHI Blog </span> in Collective Memory - JHI Blog (<time class='dt-published'>05/12/2021 21:55:54</time>)</cite></small>