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mleddy.blogspot.com mleddy.blogspot.com
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https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2005/05/tools-for-serious-readers.html
Interesting (now discontinued) reading list product from Levenger that in previous generations may have been covered by a commonplace book but was quickly replaced by digital social products (bookmark applications or things like Goodreads.com or LibraryThing.com).
Presently I keep a lot of this sort of data digitally myself using either/both: Calibre or Zotero.
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mleddy.blogspot.com mleddy.blogspot.com
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Pen + Gear Graph-Ruled Index Cards. They’re a bit on the thin side, but they take ink well, without feathering or bleeding through. And they’re printed with a very fine light-blue grid (five squares to the inch) that doesn’t get in the way of what one is writing or drawing or mapping. These cards are much better than Oxford or Staples grid cards, and a fraction of the cost of Exacompta: 48¢ for 100 cards. Highly recommended.
https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2017/08/index-card-recommendation.html
Walmart has these index cards, but only in 3x5" format.
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www.tandfonline.com www.tandfonline.com
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Sword, Helen. “‘Write Every Day!’: A Mantra Dismantled.” International Journal for Academic Development 21, no. 4 (October 1, 2016): 312–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2016.1210153.
Preliminary thoughts prior to reading:<br /> What advice does Boice give? Is he following in the commonplace or zettelkasten traditions? Is the writing ever day he's talking about really progressive note taking? Is this being misunderstood?
Compare this to the incremental work suggested by Ahrens (2017).
Is there a particular delineation between writing for academic research and fiction writing which can be wholly different endeavors from a structural point of view? I see citations of many fiction names here.
Cross reference: Throw Mama from the Train quote
A writer writes, always.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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mleddy.blogspot.com mleddy.blogspot.com
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mleddy.blogspot.com mleddy.blogspot.com
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https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2010/01/card-file-steals-scene-in-tv-debut.html
The card index in the episode of “Betty, Girl Engineer,” from the second season of Father Knows Best, first aired on April 11, 1956, is ostensibly a rolodex, though the teacher hands out the cards without copying them.
Lots of sexism in this episode...
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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I've recently run across a few examples of a pattern that should have a name because it would appear to dramatically change the outcomes. I'm going to term it "decisions based on possibilities rather than realities". It's seen frequently in economics and politics and seems to be a form of cognitive bias. People make choices (or votes) about uncertain futures, often when there is a confluence of fear, uncertainty, and doubt, and these choices are dramatically different than when they're presented with the actual circumstances in practice.
A recent example was a story about a woman who was virulently pro-life who when presented with a situation required her to switch her position to pro-choice.
Another relates to choices that people want to make about where their children might go to school versus where they actually send them, and the damage this does to public education.
Let's start collecting examples of these quandaries at all levels of making choices in the real world.
What is the relationship to this with the mental exercise of "descending into the particular"?
Does this also potentially cause decision fatigue in cases of voting spaces when constituents are forced to vote for candidates on thousands of axes which they may or may not agree with?
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forum.zettelkasten.de forum.zettelkasten.de
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I have a strong feeling it's just as experimental and playful in design as writing with a Zettelkasten
In February 2018, Christian Tietze noted some similarities to Luhmann's zettelkasten methods and that of Gerald Weinberg's Fieldstone wall method of writing.
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Bjorn, Genevive A., Laura Quaynor, and Adam J. Burgasser. “Reading Research for Writing: Co-Constructing Core Skills Using Primary Literature.” Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice 7, no. 1 (January 14, 2022): 47–58. https://doi.org/10.5195/ie.2022.237
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<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>#AcademicTwitter I survived crushing reading loads in grad school by creating a straightforward method for analyzing primary literature, called #CERIC. Saved my sanity and improved my focus. @PhDVoice. Here’s the free paper - https://t.co/YehbLQNEqJ
— Genevive Bjorn (@GeneviveBjorn) September 11, 2022I'm curious how this is similar to the traditions of commonplace books and zettelkasten from a historical perspective.
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However, the ongoing struggle to develop literature synthesis at thedoctoral level suggests that students’ critical reading skills are notsufficiently developed with commonly used strategies and methods(Aitchison et al., 2012; Boote & Beile, 2005).
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www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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Jeff Bezos should know better than to punch down like this. Uju Anya got put in Twitter jail for not deleting her post which Twitter took down anyway.
Twitter taking down Dr. Anya's post is disingenuous with respect to the tons of crap that they leave up... and much of that far worse than the content here.
read on 2022-09-09 at 1:58 PM
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www.marist.edu www.marist.edu
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The list is compiled each year by the Marist Mindset team of Professor Tommy Zurhellen, Associate Professor of English; Dr. Vanessa Lynn, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice; and Dr. Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Assistant Professor of Art and Digital Media.
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www.preposterousuniverse.com www.preposterousuniverse.com
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I have a long list of ideas I want to pursue in cosmology, quantum mechanics, complexity, statistical mechanics, emergence, information, democracy, origin of life, and elsewhere. Maybe we’ll start up a seminar series in Complexity and Emergence that brings different people together. Maybe it will grow into a Center of some kind.
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2022/03/06/johns-hopkins/
Somehow I missed that Sean Carroll had moved to Johns Hopkins? Realized today when his next book showed up on my doorstep with his new affiliation.
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www.retrievalpractice.org www.retrievalpractice.org
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nesslabs.com nesslabs.com
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sspai.com sspai.com
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我简单总结了一下，这半年来做笔记的方式和工具。记录演变工具演变理由书上划线记录纸质书和笔简单摘录书中的句子软件：Typora简单记录长篇的读书笔记软件：Typora简单管理长篇的读书笔记软件：Logseq可折叠，更方便深入消化读书笔记软件：Heptabase有白板，可辅助思考在整理的表格中，可以看到我选择记录方式和工具的理由，方便和简单占了大头。因为我知道我怕麻烦，要想让我不怕麻烦，除非处理这些麻烦事能让我解决更麻烦的问题。
对我来说可能还是太麻烦，我想我应该记录关键字，然后靠搜索引擎和记忆来完成。如果记忆都想不起来，再多再好的笔记也难以回忆。
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www.livescience.com www.livescience.com
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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www.researchgate.net www.researchgate.net
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Minzetanu, Andrei. “Reading to Quote or Ars Legendi as Ars Excerpendi.” Litterature, December 1, 2012, 31. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290606505_Reading_to_Quote_or_Ars_Legendi_as_Ars_Excerpendi
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www.klitsa-antoniou.com www.klitsa-antoniou.com
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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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neural additive model (NAM) [15]. The NAM is a differentiable (gradient-based) additive model which can adapt as the estimated latent treatment benefits are updated during training.
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S-learner strategy
What is S-learner strategy?
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GAMs [12]
learn more about generalized additive models
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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https://www.npr.org/2010/07/02/128245468/a-true-champion-vs-the-great-white-hope
origin of the phrase "Great White Hope"
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laist.com laist.com
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ABOUT THIS SERIES LAist will examine how dyslexia screening and mitigation work across California's education system every Wednesday for six weeks. August 3: The ScienceAugust 10: The Realities Of Early ChildhoodAugust 17: Policy Meets PracticeAugust 24: Bringing Dyslexia To CollegeAugust 31: How Teachers Are PreparedSeptember 7: Through The Cracks
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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occidental.substack.com occidental.substack.com
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https://occidental.substack.com/p/the-adlernet-guide-part-ii?sd=pf
Description of a note taking method for reading the Great Books: part commonplace, part zettelkasten.
I'm curious where she's ultimately placing the cards to know if the color coding means anything in the end other than simply differentiating the card "types" up front? (i.e. does it help to distinguish cards once potentially mixed up?)
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medium.com medium.com
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Although there is more than one way to implement a Zettelkasten system, the essential elements are always the same: brief summaries on cards, organized into categories.
https://medium.com/flourish-inc/wait-what-the-did-i-just-read-4b00ff02d1b7
She's basically describing a form of the original zettelkasten (a slip or index card-based commonplace book), but where did she get this from? If it was the blogosphere, which is highly likely these days, then she's either misread or heavily simplified the practice (Luhmann's practice) back down to it's original form.
She seems to take for granted how to link physical cards.
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writing.bobdoto.computer writing.bobdoto.computer
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https://writing.bobdoto.computer/folgezettel-is-not-an-outline-luhmanns-playful-appreciation-of-disfunction/
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zettelkasten.de zettelkasten.de
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forum.zettelkasten.de forum.zettelkasten.de
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https://boingboing.net/2022/08/23/book-banned-at-a-school-named-after-its-author.html
George Dawson Middle School in Southlake, Texas has banned the book Life is So Good written by the school's namesake George Dawson, the grandson of a slave who learned to read at 98 and wrote the book at 103.
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news.artnet.com news.artnet.com
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www.sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com
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As more gadgets, bikes and cars are tracked, thieves may be deterred from stealing them at all. But for those who persist, don’t we want them to fear the police are coming — and not their victims?
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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blog.tesol.org blog.tesol.org
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კითხვის მიზნები: * კონკრეტული ინფორმაციას ვეძებთ * არჩევენი რომ გავაკეთოთ * გართობისვის/ ახალი ამბების გაცნობისთვის * შინაარსის სიღრმისეულად გააზრებისთვის/ დაფიქრებისთვის * სიამოვნებისთვის
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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www.hastac.org www.hastac.org
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www.bundleiq.com www.bundleiq.com
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https://www.bundleiq.com/post/the-history-of-pkm
I positively don't recommend this article... good example of someone "trying on" information they've been reading about, but haven't quite mastered or gone deep enough on yet. Also potentially a good example of the sort of issues that can be seen when learning in public and potentially attempting to be an influencer in a space in which one is not an expert.
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lithub.com lithub.com
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de.wikipedia.org de.wikipedia.org
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www.nationalgreatbooks.com www.nationalgreatbooks.com
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occidental.substack.com occidental.substack.com
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impedagogy.com impedagogy.com
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I am going to add some optional 'reading and doing' directions to my posts. Might be helpful.
- You might listen to the poem first.
- You might answer the question that Trethewey asks first. Maybe you can engage in the margins with it.
- You can make all or part of your responses public or private.
- You can start a group to consider the question.
- You can have at it in the order presented: my intro--> Twitter thread--> my response to the thread-->check out the link-->listen to the poem.
- Perch in the margins with the withered wild grapes and the black haw and the redbuds.
- Join in the work of forecasting your own life.
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Moser, Johann Jacob . 1773. Vortheile vor Canzleyverwandte und Gelehrte in Absicht aufAkten-Verzeichnisse, Auszü ge und Register, desgleichen auf Sammlungen zu kü nfftigenSchrifften und wü rckliche Ausarbeitung derer Schrifften. T ü bingen: Heerbrandt.
Heavily quoted in chapter 4 with respect to his own zettelkasten/excerpting practice.
Is there an extant English translation of this?
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1560611614226882560.html
A reframing of what the story of the Tower of Babel means.
The moral of the Tower of Babel is to encourage power with rather than power over.
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danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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Heinen, Armin. “Wissensorganisation.” In Handbuch Methoden der Geschichtswissenschaft, edited by Stefan Haas, 1–20. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27798-7_4-1
Will have to order or do more work to track down a copy of this and translate it.
Has a great bibliography to mine for some bits I've been missing.
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Dutcher, George Matthew. “Directions and Suggestions for the Writing of Essays or Theses in History.” Historical Outlook 22, no. 7 (November 1, 1931): 329–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/21552983.1931.10114595
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Thought the middle names are similar, but slightly different spellings, this would seem to indicate that Stanford professor Samuel S. Seward, Jr. (author of Note-taking) is the brother of politician William Henry Seward.
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scottscheper.com scottscheper.com
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https://scottscheper.com/letter/36/
Clemens Luhmann, Niklas' son, has a copy of a book written in German in 1932 and given to his father by Friedrich Rudolf Hohl which ostensibly is where Luhmann learned his zettelkasten technique. It contains a 34 page chapter titled Die Kartei (the Card Index) which has the details.
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occidental.substack.com occidental.substack.com
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https://occidental.substack.com/p/my-adler-antinet
Cross posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/wromeb/the_antinet_as_an_aid_to_analytical_reading_a_la/<br /> with additional commentary.
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Don’t make claims unless you can cite documentation, formalized guidelines, and coding examples to back those claims up. People need to know why they are being asked to make a change, and another developer’s personal preference isn’t a good enough argument.
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howaboutthis.substack.com howaboutthis.substack.com
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https://howaboutthis.substack.com/p/the-knowledge-that-wont-fit-inside
Reasonable overview article with some nice pros/cons.
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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kuemmerle.name kuemmerle.name
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Chris Aldrichs Blog ist sehr gefährlich, denn, wenn man einmal darin zu lesen angefangen hat, dann kommt man so schnell nicht mehr davon los. Ich selbst wurde durch einen bestimmten Beitrag angelockt und ertappe mich jetzt immer wieder dabei, dass ich durch sämtliche Beiträge und Pages seines Blogs stöbere. Er selbst nutzt sein Weblog wie folgt: I use this website as my primary hub for online identity and communication. It’s also my online commonplace book. Schon alleine damit ist geklärt, warum man so viele Dinge dort entdecken kann. Ich komme auf alle Fälle weiterhin regelmäßig dort vorbei und einen seiner Feeds -- alle wären wohl nicht zu händeln -- habe ich in meinem Reader übernommen.
https://kuemmerle.name/foren/topic/chris-aldrich#postid-148
Google Translate:
Chris Aldrich 's blog is very dangerous because once you start reading it, it's hard to get off. I myself was lured by a certain post and now find myself rummaging through all the posts and pages on his blog.
He himself uses his weblog as follows:
I use this website as my primary hub for online identity and communication. It's also my online common place book.
That alone explains why you can discover so many things there. In any case, I continue to visit there regularly and I have adopted one of his feeds -- all of them would probably not be manageable -- in my reader.
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drlindseyfitzharris.com drlindseyfitzharris.com
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https://zettelkasten.de/posts/literature-notes-vs-permanent-notes/
on permanent notes...
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-61864756
see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Johnny
Not mentioned is the tradition of using common names with other job related nouns as a means of identifying people with careers. Eg: Johnny Butcher
see also: https://podcasts.apple.com/sn/podcast/episode-6-job-and-places-of-work/id274989284?i=1000366645645
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www.springer.com www.springer.com
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https://www.springer.com/series/6159/books
Information Science and Knowledge Management Series of texts from Springer
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ljvmiranda921.github.io ljvmiranda921.github.io
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I stole the title from this Substack post. I cannot put this much better than them: “we’ve chosen to optimize for feelings— to bring the quirks and edges of life back into software. To create something with soul.” Enjoyment is an important component of my day to day.
Optimizing for feelings seems to be a broader generational movement (particularly for the progressive movement) in the past decade or more.
https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/optimizing-for-feelings #wanttoread
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yalebooks.yale.edu yalebooks.yale.edu
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https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300217230/voynich-manuscript/
Intro text recommended by Lisa Fagin Davis
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www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
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Of course, no mention of other atrocities inflicted by colonialists in Massachusetts here. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_Amherst,_1st_Baron_Amherst)
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collation.folger.edu collation.folger.edu
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cyberzettel.com cyberzettel.com
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https://cyberzettel.com/successful-conversion-from-wordpress-to-classicpress/
Good to hear that conversion seems so straightforward.
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cyberzettel.com cyberzettel.com
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https://cyberzettel.com/chris-aldrich-and-his-research-on-digital-public-zettelkasten/
This looks exciting!
You've also nudged me to convert my burgeoning broader top level tag of "note taking" into a full fledged category (https://boffosocko.com/category/note-taking/) which shortly will contain not only the material on zettelkasten but commonplace books and other related areas.
Usually once a tag has more than a couple hundred entries, it's time to convert it to a category. This one was long overdue.
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chicagoreader.com chicagoreader.com
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people.ischool.berkeley.edu people.ischool.berkeley.edu
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Combinatorics and order as a foundation of creati-vity, information organization and art in the work ofWilhelm OstwaldThomas Hapke
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"OCLC Prints Last Library Catalog Cards.” OCLC, October 1, 2015. 44280170. OCLC News Releases 2015 - US. https://cdm15003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15003coll6/id/386.
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www.popularmechanics.com www.popularmechanics.com
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a19379/a-short-history-of-the-index-card/
Broad history essay but doesn't dig into the weeds. Feels a lot like a few other essays I've seen of this sort. Content farmish...
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Amherst College library described in Colin B. Burke's Information and Intrigue, organized books and cards based on author name. In both cases, the range of books on a shelf was random.
Information and Intrigue by Colin B. Burke
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Systematische Anleitung zur Theorie und Praxis der Mnemonik : nebst den Grundlinien zur Geschichte u. Kritik dieser Wissenschaft : mit 3 Kupfertaf. by Johann Christoph Aretin( Book )18 editions published in 1810 in 3 languages and held by 52 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Google translation:<br /> Systematic instructions for the theory and practice of mnemonics: together with the basic lines for the history and criticism of this science: with 3 copper plates.
First published in 1810 in German
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thoughtcatalog.com thoughtcatalog.com
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https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2013/08/how-and-why-to-keep-a-commonplace-book/
An early essay from Ryan Holiday about commonplace books including how, why, and their general value.
Notice that the essay almost reads as if he's copying out cards from his own system. This is highlighted by the fact that he adds dashes in front 23 of his paragraphs/points.
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lifehacker.com lifehacker.com
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https://lifehacker.com/im-ryan-holiday-and-this-is-how-i-work-1485776137
An influential productivity article from 2013-12-18 that is seen quoted over the blogosphere for the following years that broadened the idea of the commonplace book and the later popularity of the zettelkasten.
Note that zettelkasten.de was just starting up at about this time period, though it follows the work of Manfred Kuehn's note taking blog.
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andysylvester.com andysylvester.com
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theodora.com theodora.com
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Reasonable overview of history. Worth digging into to flesh out more fully with respect to the major system in particular.
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www.kevinmarks.com www.kevinmarks.com
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https://www.kevinmarks.com/memex.html
I got stuck over the weekend, so I totally missed Kevin Marks' memex demo at IndieWebCamp's Create Day, but it is an interesting little UI experiment.
I'll always maintain that Vannevar Bush really harmed the first few generations of web development by not mentioning the word commonplace book in his conceptualization. Marks heals some of this wound by explicitly tying the idea of memex to that of the zettelkasten however. John Borthwick even mentions the idea of "networked commonplace books". [I suspect a little birdie may have nudged this perspective as catnip to grab my attention—a ruse which is highly effective.]
Some of Kevin's conceptualization reminds me a bit of Jerry Michalski's use of The Brain which provides a specific visual branching of ideas based on the links and their positions on the page: the main idea in the center, parent ideas above it, sibling ideas to the right/left and child ideas below it. I don't think it's got the idea of incoming or outgoing links, but having a visual location on the page for incoming links (my own site has incoming ones at the bottom as comments or responses) can be valuable.
I'm also reminded a bit of Kartik Prabhu's experiments with marginalia and webmention on his website which plays around with these ideas as well as their visual placement on the page in different methods.
MIT MediaLab's Fold site (details) was also an interesting sort of UI experiment in this space.
It also seems a bit reminiscent of Kevin Mark's experiments with hovercards in the past as well, which might be an interesting way to do the outgoing links part.
Next up, I'd love to see larger branching visualizations of these sorts of things across multiple sites... Who will show us those "associative trails"?
Another potential framing for what we're all really doing is building digital versions of Indigenous Australian's songlines across the web. Perhaps this may help realize Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly's dream for a "third archive"?
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www.catswetel.com www.catswetel.com
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universitylifecafe.k-state.edu universitylifecafe.k-state.edu
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https://universitylifecafe.k-state.edu/bookshelf/academicskills/indexcardstudysystem.html
Natalie Umberger is writing about an "index card study system" in an academic study skills context, but it's an admixture of come ideas from Cornell Notes and using index cards as flashcards.
The advice to "Review your notes and readings frequently, so the material is 'fresh.' " is a common one (through at least the 1980s to the present), though research on the mere-exposure effect indicates that it's not as valuable as other methods.
How can we stamp out the misconception that this sort of review is practical?
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www.mattmaldre.com www.mattmaldre.com
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https://www.mattmaldre.com/2021/09/13/annotate-articles-online/
I love that Matt is using this tool and his annotated notes to write new material based on things he's read.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
The bouba/kiki effect might be an interesting thing to use for memorizing birdsong patterns.
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www.insider.com www.insider.com
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danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
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https://danallosso.substack.com/p/announcing-how-to-make-notes-and
Congratulations @danallosso!
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press.uchicago.edu press.uchicago.edu
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https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo63098990.html Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind by Ayelet Even-Ezra
Mentioned during Tinderbox Meetup: https://forum.eastgate.com/t/tagging-meetup-saturday-august-7/4841
They apparently discussed the book last week. (May be able to find the video of the discussion)
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danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
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danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
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https://danallosso.substack.com/p/thoughts-prior-to-publishing
<iframe title="vimeo-player" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/735211043?h=68a6bdd022" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>I love the pointed focus @danallosso puts on output here. I think he's right that the "conversation between the writer, the text, and their notes" (in my framing combinatorial creativity) is where the real value is to be had.
His explanation of the "evergreen note" is highly valuable here. One should really do as much work upfront to make it as evergreen as possible. Too many people (especially in the digital gardens space) put the emphasis on working on these evergreen notes over time to slowly improve and evolve them and that's probably the wrong framing to take. Write it once, write it well, then reuse it.
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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remikalir.com remikalir.com
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https://remikalir.com/blog/sabbatical-annotated/
It was great seeing you in person yesterday @remikalir! Glad you could make the time to hang out. Do let me know if you need anything while you're here in the neighborhood or in your pending travels on sabbatical.
Congratulations again on all this news! I'm sure it's a bit overwhelming and a lot of change to adjust to, but I'm sure you'll come out far ahead.
I told Evie about your sister's choreography annotation work when I picked her up from ballet. She pulled a small pocket notebook out of her ballet bag that I didn't know she had full of some of her own choreography notes!! I was so proud...
Safe travels my friend!
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variety.com variety.com
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www.calstateteach.net www.calstateteach.net
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CalStateTEACH https://www.calstateteach.net/
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www3.carleton.ca www3.carleton.ca
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www.intheknow.com www.intheknow.com
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https://news.yahoo.com/mathematician-tiktok-gives-example-insane-192823997.html
A sad, but subtle bit of math shaming going on here. Worse it's indicating that math is hard for even the elite without providing proper context.
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Vinzenz Brinkmann, Head of the Department of Antiquity at the Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection in Frankfurt am Main, said when he first started researching polychromy 40 years ago, "no one had interest in this for years, no one collected the clearly visible evidence. Except for me. I collected the evidence like a stamp collection."
Ancient statuary wasn't white as we often see now in museums, but was brightly colored. Statuary that was outside would have been sun bleached over time as well as subject to other weathering to mute or entirely remove color.
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I broadly take most of my (online) notes using Hypothes.is for web pages and .pdf files. I then use the Hypothesidian set up with Templater to import all the pieces: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/retrieve-annotations-for-hypothes-is-via-templater-plugin-hypothes-idian/17225
So far it's been pretty helpful and I spend a huge amount of time in Hypothes.is.
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fraidyc.at fraidyc.at
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https://fraidyc.at/blog/wakey-wakey/
Updates to Fraidyc.at! 🎉
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
Link to Beatrice Webb's use of note taking methods as a means of data storage, search, and sort in the early 1900s.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Bernheim
19 February 1850 – 9 July 1942
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Glad I'm not the only one...
Depending on my particular mood, I'll call mine "Konrad" after Gessner, "Beatrice" after Webb, or "Bruce" (a quirky hat tip to The West Wing S7 E2: "His name is Bruce. He's a flight attendant on Aer Lingus. They've got a connecting hub out of Hamburg. You know, at first it was long walks along the Reeperbahn...")
https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/w0x1m6/give_your_antinet_a_pen_name/
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medium.com medium.com
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https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/vzertk/using_the_antinet_for_professional_conferences/
Thanks /ultwalt This seems to underline the aphorism, that the more you put into something, the more you'll get out of it. It's something that many miss as an underlying benefit to these processes in general.
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threadreaderapp.com threadreaderapp.com
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1547390915689566211.html via https://twitter.com/nicolas_gatien/status/1547390946156969984
Nicolas, I broadly agree with you that many of these factors of reading and writing for understanding and retention are at play and the research in memory and spaced repetition underlines a lot of this. However in practice, one needs to be revisiting and actively using their notes for some particular project to remember them better. The card search may help to create both visual and physical paths that assist in memory too.
Reliance solely on a physical zettelkasten however may not be enough without active use over time, particularly for the majority of users. It's unlikely that all or even many may undertake this long term practice. Saying that this is either the "best", "optimum", or "only" way would be disingenuous to the diversity of learners and thinkers.
Those who want to add additional strength to these effects might also use mnemonic methods from indigenous cultures that rely on primary orality. These could include color, images, doodles (drolleries anyone?), or other associative methods, many of which could be easily built into an (antinet) zettelkasten. Lynne Kelly's work in this area can be highly illuminating. For pure practical application and diversity of potential methods, I recommend her book Memory Craft https://amzn.to/3zdqqGp, but she's got much more academic and in depth work that is highly illustrative.
With this background on orality and memory in mind we might all broadly view wood and stone circles (Stonehenge), menhir, standing stones, songlines, and other mnemonic devices in the archaeological and sociological records as zettelkasten which one keeps entirely in their memory rather than writing them down. We might also consider, based on this and the historical record concerning Druids and their association with trees that the trees served a zettelkasten-like function for those ancient societies. This continues to extend to lots of other cultural and societal practices throughout history. Knowledge from Duane Hamacher et al's book The First Astronomers and Karlie Noone and Krystal De Napoli's Astronomy: Sky Country will underline these theories and practices in modern indigenous settings.
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notes.andymatuschak.org notes.andymatuschak.org
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https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/vy4abk/interesting_thread_on_twitter_about_the_need_and/
Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1547208663768748032.html
That thread by u/taurusnoises (Bob Doto aka @thehighpony) seems to explicitly buy into the rumor that Luhmann invented the zettelkasten. He assuredly did not and was most likely taught it or some version of it by one or more teachers or colleagues in his lifetime. We're unlikely to know if he tweaked or modified it extensively from the version he was taught, but studying the methods of others may be illustrative. How did Wittgenstein use it? Newton? Georg Christoph Lichtenberg? John Locke? Barthes? Marcel Mauss? Claude Lévi-Strauss? Heck, even comedian George Carlin, dancer/choreographer Twyla Tharp, and battle rapper/musician Eminem have slip box systems that they explicitly used for their creativity and work.
People have been using zettelkasten, commonplace books, florilegium, and other similar methods for centuries, and no one version is the "correct" one. What is useful is finding a system that works for you (and not finding a system that you work for). Everyone here is assuredly doing exactly as Luhmann did, you're taking a tool with a broad set of ideas, principles, and practices and putting it to use in a way that works for you. This is part of the reason why there are so many people with so many questions about the what and why in this and other fora.
We approach these methods from such a top down manner, in part, because our culture has broadly lost the thread of how these note taking practices were done historically. Instead of working with something that has always existed and been taught in our culture, and then using it to suit our needs, we're looking at it like a new shiny toy or app and then trying to modify it to make it suit our needs.
Of course to be sure, Luhmann's version of the tool as he used it is one of the most powerful forms of commonplacing we've seen, but this doesn't mean that someone doesn't change or innovate on the methods to make something even more powerful or emergent. (I'd caution against low level attempts as this ground has been heavily tread by millions of people over time.)
To add onto Nicolas-Gatien and dynodiaper's list, how about? 4. Idea generation/creation and innovation
And for those who want the bumper sticker version: https://www.zazzle.com/niklas_luhmann_bumper_sticker-128462770354241554 Or maybe, for Scott, the coffee mug version? 😁☕https://www.zazzle.com/niklas_luhmann_mug-168394795838388324
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Instead of building a comments section, why not build it to send/accept Webmentions? (Webmention.io and Webmention.js with some help from Brid.gy) could implement this pretty quickly without much additional work.) This would allow your digital garden to communicate directly with others' as well as other sites online including Twitter?
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I may be insane, but somehow text search here makes me wonder that Calibre might actually make an interesting interface for keeping one's notes?
Document management, text search, tagging, reference management capabilities, open source, custom meta data, server potential, etc. What's missing to prevent such an off-label use case?
Syndication link: https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/1547689914078179328
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The presenter in the video has 70 notes across 3 months which is drastically lower than what I have.
Somewhere I think I read that Luhmann only added about 6 cards a day to his zettelkasten. (I suspect they averaged his 90K output over the span of years he said he used it....)
My fleeting note output right now is potentially too much, and I certainly should be spending more time refining and building on my (note-based) thoughts.
It's not how many thoughts one has, but their quality and even more importantly, what one does with them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/jho1em/i_found_a_gem/
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soranews24.com soranews24.com
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Apparently many Japanese bookstores sort and arrange their books by Publisher rather than by author name!
While this may make some esthetic sense on behalf of publishers in a commercial space, it isn't necessarily easy for customers to find books this way.
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x28newblog.wordpress.com x28newblog.wordpress.com
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https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/pruning-for-output/
In response to my call for zettelkasten output examples, Matthias Melcher comes up to the border of what I was looking for but doesn't cover the actual output portion.
He focuses instead about some of the processing and the pruning portions, but not use for actual content creation. Is this because he doesn't actively use his notes for the creation portion? Or does he use his branching tree space as recollections of notes, perhaps to create outlines for creation?
Note specifically that he doesn't mention any sort of surprise or serendipity with respect to linking ideas nor is there any mention of "inventio" portions of the process.
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training.gov.au training.gov.au
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standard recipes
Do they need to read a recipe?
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most people need to talk out an idea in order to think about it2.
D. J. Levitin, The organized mind: thinking straight in the age of information overload. New York, N.Y: Dutton, 2014. #books/wanttoread
A general truism in my experience, but I'm curious what else Levitin has to say on this subject.
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https://quiescent.us/2022/06/think-external/
Brief example of someone who says they have an antinet zettelkasten note taking approach.
Nothing exceptional here beyond this.
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marthawells.com marthawells.com
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techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
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campustechnology.com campustechnology.com
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https://tinysubversions.com/spring-83/rrffcc-dfk-1.txt
Some interesting points from someone with experience on several fronts.
I love that he's published his response in plain text this way!!
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https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/06/spring-83/
I've been thinking about this sort of thing off and on myself.
I too almost immediately thought of Fraidyc.at and its nudge at shifting the importance of content based on time and recency. I'd love to have a social reader with additional affordances for both this time shifting and Ton's idea of reading based on social distance.
I'm struck by the seemingly related idea of @peterhagen's LindyLearn platform and annotations: https://annotations.lindylearn.io/new/ which focuses on taking some of the longer term interesting ideas as the basis for browsing and chewing on. Though even here, one needs some of the odd, the cutting edge, and the avant garde in their balanced internet diet. Would Spring '83 provide some of this?
I'm also struck by some similarities this has with the idea of Derek Siver's /now page movement. I see some updating regularly while others have let it slip by the wayside. Still the "board" of users exists, though one must click through a sea of mostly smiling and welcoming faces to get to it the individual pieces of content. (The smiling faces are more inviting and personal than the cacophony of yelling and chaos I see in models for Spring '83.) This reminds me of Stanley Meyers' frequent assertion that he attempted to design a certain "sense of quiet" into the early television show Dragnet to balance the seeming loudness of the everyday as well as the noise of other contemporaneous television programming.
The form reminds me a bit of the signature pages of one's high school year book. But here, instead of the goal being timeless scribbles, one has the opportunity to change the message over time. Does the potential commercialization of the form (you know it will happen in a VC world crazed with surveillance capitalism) follow the same trajectory of the old college paper facebook? Next up, Yearbook.com!
Beyond the thing as a standard, I wondered what the actual form of Spring '83 adds to a broader conversation? What does it add to the diversity of voices that we don't already see in other spaces. How might it be abused? Would people come back to it regularly? What might be its emergent properties?
It definitely seems quirky and fun in and old school web sort of way, but it also stresses me out looking at the zany busyness of some of the examples of magazine stands. The general form reminds me of the bargain bins at book stores which have the promise of finding valuable hidden gems and at an excellent price, but often the ideas and quality of what I find usually isn't worth the discounted price and the return on investment is rarely worth the effort. How might this get beyond these forms?
It also brings up the idea of what other online forms we may have had with this same sort of raw experimentation? How might the internet have looked if there had been a bigger rise of the wiki before that of the blog? What would the world be like if Webmention had existed before social media rose to prominence? Did we somehow miss some interesting digital animals because the web rose so quickly to prominence without more early experimentation before its "Cambrian explosion"?
I've been thinking about distilled note taking forms recently and what a network of atomic ideas on index cards look like and what emerges from them. What if the standard were digital index cards that linked and cross linked to each other, particularly in a world without adherence to time based orders and streams? What does a new story look like if I can pull out a card either at random or based on a single topic and only see it or perhaps some short linked chain of ideas (mine or others) which come along with it? Does the choice of a random "Markov monkey" change my thinking or perspective? What comes out of this jar of Pandora? Is it just a new form of cadavre exquis?
This standard has been out for a bit and presumably folks are experimenting with it. What do the early results look like? How are they using it? Do they like it? Does it need more scale? What do small changes make to the overall form?
For more on these related ideas, see: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22spring+%2783%22
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