So Much for the Decentralized Internet

Thought-provoking read from @ibogost So Much for the Decentralized Internet

This is an aspirational post.

And this resistance is happening…

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liaison between creativity and logic.

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“map of inquiry”

Networked Writing

how do we build in-line comments and discussion to the web?

Blogging still feels very single player.

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Annotate over VitalSource owned ebooks and PDFs

Crucially, the lessons from this process are informing the global efforts to create a universally-accepted set of policies and practices for DAOs.

Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit

Personal Canon These are the things that have most influenced my work and thinking; the things that I return to and share with others again and again.

personal canon

Brendan Schlagel

forging meaningful communities, and continuing to craft my own self-directed learning program.

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Make decisions together online

The original “Mad Professor” of cyberpunk

FrameTrail

WHAT IS TOMBSTONE DIAGRAM ?

Scalabel v0.3.0 Demo

difference between 00:03:53 the more transient um like metadata type pheromone markings in contrast with the more content like architectural modifications so there's a lot of like resonances 00:04:05 across systems and hence not exactly one ontology or way to talk about the different components

beyond' ontology

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A (pipe?)dream is about to come true across the Web. Just "Think A Link" and it get's you into the right context across the Web of Networked Thoughts and Trust we need to tackle urgent problems. https://youtube.com/watch?v=_M05U9BHYzM&feature=youtu.be&t=3990

"think a link"

Don't let the memex be a dreamex

Don't let the memex be a dreamex

algorithms we are developing for socialMindGraphing,

Personal Knowledge Mastery,

Chrome Webstore

DriveGraph

Knowledge Platform.Support deep collaboration at the meta level by facilitating the merging and consolidation ofalternative conceptu

does not need to be backed up with venturecapita

Knowledge Mastery is a meta-reflective problem. Offer a meta-reflectivetechnology to kick start co-evolution.

a reusable Universal framework where everything is a graph andall capabilities are expressed in terms of a Graph based model of computation. surely it willbe copied and set to become a new paradigm.

eflect in a MindGraph what they are doing, seeking to learn and write to think about,while capturing and saving relevant content always in the right context.

merging graph neighborhoods

Personal Knowledge Work tomove towards support for collaborative Knowledge Work.

Google Drive™

WikiNizer does not have to build the cost of “free services” into its prices.

Everything is thus contextualized, reused, and reconstituted as MindGraphs

Google Drive™.

Users are thus forced to disperse related information

leaving the automatic formation of communities to berealized at some future time.

Graph databases

How to create a file and generate a download with Javascript in the Browser (without a server)

indie creator economics

building hyperlink.academy, a new platform for collaborative learning.

to display and disseminate and put into action all that which I build.

“blog” to mean an individual’s online home base, an identity owned and consolidated rather than diluted across the social media spectrum,

“lifestream”

“The blog is dead, long live the blog”

built over time, with love and care and generosity and effort shining through.

carefully built space

A Personal Niche, An Internet Cathedral, A Networked Empire

The blog is dead, long live the blog

A portfolio; a cathedral

one author, many blogs!

group blog! One blog, many authors, a shared set of themes or editorial voice.

learning-focused communal blogging

Blogging Futures learning adventure

discussion of hyperlink.academy

But I want more structures; grander structures!

I want big, simple, legible ways to link blog discussions together. I want: blogging megastructures!

Networked Communities

problem is

blogchain-based learning adventure

blog society requires connection, community, conversation

every blog is an island.

This post is part of Blogging Futures

What’s beyond a blog post; beyond a blogchain?

hyperlink.academy 🌱 threads.garden Hyperlink Hypotenuse

quit the regular paycheck lifestyle in 2011 to go feral.

essence of it was legible to new readers willing to do a bit of clicking around.

navigating the warrens of the funding and publishing ecosystems

wasn’t powerful enough to reshape the landscape in ways that could create room for me.

The publish or perish equation gets massively loaded on the perish side, and I perished.

fall right through the cracks between the fields of AI, operations research, cognitive science and control theory.

disreputable interdisciplinary TV science (Santa Fe has a far bigger reputation in pop science than in mainstream academia).

complex systems that are also recursively self-aware

Resurrecting Self-Organized Criticality?

biological systems self-organize in ways that keep them on the edge of criticality

social systems that thrive and grow are on the edge of legibility.

A warren

Warrens vs. Plazas

A plaza is

fascinating series he is doing on social software.

Good for creating tunnel/warren-like architectures that are more “indoors” than “outdoors”.

Gutenberg block editor which introduces, among a lot of other things, reusable container-like blocks.

Q7: What’s a blogchain?

retcon 

Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015

We are working towards adding features based upon colored highlights to enhance the end users experience.

Our partnership with VitalSource will be expanded to improve the user experience on documents with multiple pages.

Have a real conversation again

Funding is flowing to superficial things rather than connecting the fancy faucets to the plumbing that already exists,

open writing ecosystems, working in public, the greater blogsphere present and future…

networked communities — exploring

Networked Communities How do networks form, adapt and work in the networked age?

Use brid.gy to connect your Twitter and all that if you honestly need it.

The benefit is that people will read your posts on your actual blog. This could be nice for you!

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The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat ObsessionsBeing curious and obsessed can lead to interesting places

Surprisingly big breakthrough ideas come when you bridge two seemingly unconnected areas.

the work that needs to be done is not a finite list of tasks, it is a neverending stream.

Rest in motion

Happiness is pushed to some later date in the future while your present self battles with the misery of the current moment.

little idiomatic UI that lets 01:03:37 you off the cuff create property graphs and it helps to you know like so many things it helps to have a subject if you have a subject area

properly trying to do property graphs as opposed to you know something that links stickies together

there is a knack to it too and 01:02:54 just as Wiki made hypertext a little easier than the hypertext experts you know the stuff we're doing with property graphs is a little easier

they're pretty magical and if you think about it a property graph with its nodes and relations 01:02:39 feels like a little miniature Wiki

like the blogosphere the only twist we have is we say well yeah it's going to be like the blogosphere except that we can put data 01:02:25 and share data

network traffic is kind of going from a broadcaster out to the audience

trying to move away from that idea of actually even having files

there's a network

croquet is interesting because uh there's no server

quirk to to to stand away from uh making money

create a coinbase account or something you know because then I at least feel comfortable that they're not going to lose all their funds

problem of onboarded people into web 3 is so huge

back to uh to uh Engelbert and should the interface be easy or is it okay if the interface is hard

difficult to use until you get The Knack of it and when you get the Knack 00:33:42 of it you say oh this is pretty magical as long as you've put in all the work that I just put in to learn it

relations are sort of sort of assumed you know well no no you have to name them and put them in to be 00:33:28 able to make a statement in graph

figuring that out but the the premise is is it's a chat program but instead of chatting in statements in English 00:33:03 you chat in little networks of nodes and relations as a system thinker would expect I guess

S3 thing kind of 00:31:18 equivalents which is becoming the web version of memory

e stepping out of the wiki a

super 00:30:13 Collider and I said well man that's a great name let's call it the semiconducting super collaborator

let's think about how it really ought to be and we had trouble articulating that

we've in the context of Wiki we've came 00:29:10 came to realize that this property graph stuff's pretty powerful

quirkier side of things things that might work because in the programming there's something powerful there and yet to be explored

collaborative graph too

Allen K was one of those and I was kind of a subscriber 00:26:54 okay to his work

put up with the Arcane nature of the programming

could only sell crippled things to the population and there might be something to that

learn to use it and learning to use

let's just do this because it'll 00:21:19 work

Roger Bates was one and and uh he came to tektronics

won't even say nice job he'll just say oh and you can do this and this and this and this and come up with more 00:19:45 ideas so it's not very satisfying

skeptical you know it sounded pretty blue sky

Doug Engelbert I didn't sort of get to that I had met him yeah you know of him 00:18:22 even even when he was starting the internet

1993 vintage GPS

get in the room and do the work

not how we can go about building this collective intelligence but why

create a registry for a geospatial data um and so for instance like if you're looking at a lot of climate projects

Perma Garden basically for ourselves and um so we we don't uh so we can you know use that as our as our story

other resources Beyond money

indigenomics

web3 without uh you know you know by encrypting certain pieces of data and having people you know allowing people to ask questions about you know whether they can you know use it for a certain 00:11:43 data se

don't really want all of this data to be open

accruing trust to the trustworthy without having any kind of authoritative hand on it

everyone just expresses what they think

canonical debate like as you've seen kyalo

common trust is the vector through which information can spread we don't necessarily have to agree on all of the facts about everything if we can agree on who to trust to do a good enough job

shows automatically all the top reasons for 00:08:00 and against

idea Market also establishes a Knowledge Graph so that there are inferential links between the points of uh knowledge or th

citation system

little social network called idea market

how a remarkably simple mechanism can simulate allmechanisms

inform thematerial with meaning and to extractmeaning from the form

"Information," Gregory Bateson noted, "is any diference that makesa diference."

theonly intrinsic meaning of a mark is thatit is there

Computers are to computing as instruments are to music.

Happy 75th Anniversary, Transistor. You’ve Changed Everything – Including How We Innovate.

Each app environment (myapp production, myapp staging, etc.) should have a separate channel with its own ID and secret key. You can manage channels only via the dashboard, not the API.

Scaledrone@scaledroneWe wrote a new tutorial on building a real-time chat app in Go. Check it out! https://scaledrone.com/blog/go-chat-app-tutorial-build-a-real-time-chat/… #GoLang #javascript

Scuttlebutt glossary

In the context of p2p, uxer makes more sense, cuz we're flip the paradigm of ownership, and should be designing from the first person. IMHO the ultimate goal is for people to not only "own" their "experience", but design their own applications; for the perfect world, the latter predicates the former; to which ends, anarchitecture.

uxer is a sort of mashup shorthand for the user-experienceR, which is not the "experience" as perceived by others (UX) but the person who is getting treated... the uxer is the "UX Designer"

dex short for "decentralized"

A user's stream of signed messages. Also called a log.

Thinking Small to Get BigThe long tail of software

JotSpot

Twister implements a social network (again, dexnet of friends & followors) on a uniformly distributed decentralized network,

topology (data center hub and user spokes)