Process of using scripts/API to post content to various spaces, rather than using web ui. Sometimes a 1-time migration process, other times an ongoing creation system.

Michael Joyce (born 1945) is a professor of English at Vassar College, New York, US. He is also an important author and critic of electronic literature. Joyce's afternoon, a story, 1987, was among the first literary works of hypertext fiction to present itself as undeniably serious literature, and experimented with the short-story form in novel ways. It was created with the then-new Storyspace software, deployed the ambiguity and dubious narrator characteristic of high modernism, along with some suspense and romance elements, in a story whose meaning could change dramatically depending on the path taken through its lexias on each reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Joyce_(writer) (more)

Rusty Guinn: Narrative Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry Not all storytellers are missionaries, of course. When we refer to missionaries, we are referring to a game theoretic (game theory) concept. We mean the people who seek to steer and influence common knowledge. (more)

Epsilon Theory writer

Epsilon Theory writer

aka Andries Van Dam, Computer Graphics/HyperText pioneer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andries_van_Dam (more)

Bret Victor project. We are a non-profit long-term research group in the spirit of Douglas Engelbart and Xerox PARC. We are inventing a new computational medium where people work together with real objects in the real world, not alone with virtual objects on screens. https://dynamicland.org/

Agile Software Development guru. https://www.hendricksonxp.com/

Meritocracy (merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος kratos 'strength, power') is a political system in which economic goods and/or political power are vested in individual people on the basis of talent, effort, and achievement, rather than wealth or social class.[1] Advancement in such a system is based on performance, as measured through examination or demonstrated achievement. Although the concept of meritocracy has existed for centuries, the term itself was coined in 1958 by the sociologist Michael Dunlop Young in his satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy

Idea that American Middle Class was a temporary Golden Age phenomenon, and now (in/post Economic Transition) you have to find a niche where you can excel, or you're dead meat. (more)

Jeffrey Edward Epstein (January 20, 1953 – August 10, 2019) was an American financier and convicted sex offender.[1][2] Epstein began his professional life as a teacher, then changed to the banking and finance sector in various roles. Epstein developed an elite social circle, and allegedly procured women and girls, many underage, to provide sexual services for himself and some of these contacts... In 2005, police in Palm Beach, Florida began investigating Epstein after a parent complained that he had sexually abused her 14-year-old daughter.[4] Epstein pleaded guilty and was convicted by a Florida state court of soliciting a prostitute and of procuring an underage girl for prostitution in 2008.[5] He served almost 13 months in custody, with work release, as part of a plea deal; federal officials had identified 36 girls, some as young as 14 years old, whom Epstein sexually abused.[6][7] Epstein was arrested again on July 6, 2019, on federal charges for sex trafficking of minors in Florida and New York.[8][9] He died in his jail cell on August 10, 2019.[10] The medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein

WikiWikiWeb:HashTable - A Hash Table is a Data Structure for storing Key-Value pairs; that is, an implementation of the DictionaryData Structure. Hash tables can be startlingly efficient... (more)

Nate Cull: Dataspace 0: Those Memex Dreams Again ....a very rough sketch of an idea about what a future computing system might look like. (more)

pretty-Good Movie, but on of the Greatest Books?

Rusty Guinn: Rust and Blight. ...tearing up the tree and replanting a new one? Wouldn’t do a thing. Cedar rust isn’t a problem with the tree. It’s a problem with the tree’s environment. (more)

Creator of the "Connections" PBS series, which I recommend. (Demonstrated Intertwingularity.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series) (more)

Zed Shaw is using GPL for his Lamson and other code. Now, given that there's no incentive for a company to admit they use my stuff, and there's no incentive for a programmer to give me credit, ask yourself this one question: Why the fuck wouldn't I charge people money who can't use the GPL? I know, I know, many of you freesoftware diehards are thinking that makes me a traitor, but think about it. You have the software, and it's GPLed, and as long as you're a rock solid open source project who releases their code you are free to use it and do what you want with it. I love Open Source, but companies? Companies are going to have to pay from now on. That's how economics works. If it's good enough for you to use, why then it's good enough for you to pay for it. (more)

the philosophy/theory that tolerance of non-violent crimes (graffiti, etc.) leads to increase in Violent Crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Criticism (more)

Studies have illustrated that crime and delinquency, education, psychological distress, and various health problems, among many other issues, are affected by Neighborhood characteristics. Thresholds, or Tipping Point-s, also prove important. In a recent review of research, Galster notes that studies suggest “that the independent impacts of neighborhood Poverty rates in encouraging negative outcomes for individuals like crime, school leaving, and duration of poverty spells appear to be nil unless the neighborhood exceeds about 20 percent poverty, whereupon the externality effects grow rapidly until the neighborhood reaches approximately 40 percent poverty; subsequent increases in the poverty population appear to have no marginal effect.” cf Broken Windows

A NoteBook/PrivateWiki app needs to make it easy/fast to jot down an idea. (more)