This may nicely fit a need I have with mapping relationships and walking connections. The is a knowledge space that is cutting across three or four organizations with various sponsors of the organizations (with some overlaps) and researcher advisors (which overlap) that I have relationships with. Also connections with universities. Trying to see the overlaps and interconnections, so to find a path to connect and possibly put many of my lenses to use.

I've been turning to The Brain to see this, but it is having to input the information again, which means annotations and updates will likely break at some point.

This focus is exactly why I started blogging some 21+ years ago and why I'm feeling the ache of less frequent postings now.

Upton Sinclair wrote that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” We need to understand the climate crisis because our lives depend on us understanding it.

Pretty basic and pretty much what Jaiku did. It gave a somewhat holistic social platform view of people with the person in focus. You could see all the social platforms they shared on and what was shared, but also allowed you to turn off listening to platforms for that person.

On the Jaiku webview I had a my own layer of how I had someone tagged (say foodie or Apple nerd) and I could click on that and seem others I followed who I believed had those interests. Which was a personal version of what I wrote up later as a Granular Social Network (https://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1975).