celebrity, cool hunter? pseudo-viral. Someone who influences the beliefs/behavior of others.

A rhizome is a horizontal, root-like stem that extends underground and sends out shoots to the surface. Rhizomes connect plants in a living network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome Rhizome is also a figurative term used by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to describe non-hierarchical networks of all kinds. Deleuze and Guattari write: "To these centered systems (arborescent structures), the authors contrast acentered systems, finite networks of automata in which communication runs from any neighbor to another, the stems or channels do not preexist, and all individuals are interchangeable, defined only by their state at a given moment--such that the local operations are coordinated and the final, global result synchronized without a central agency." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome_(philosophy) (more)

NaNoWriMo descendant to make a Robot write a novel for you, started 2013. https://nanogenmo.github.io/ (more)

National Novel Writing Month (November of each year). (more)

http://www.sohodojo.com/ (more)

Nadia Eghbal: The tyranny of ideas Lately, I’ve amused myself by operating through the lens that the world is run by ideas, rather than people... I like thinking of people as vessels... Rather than viewing people as agents of change, I think of them as intermediaries, voice boxes for some persistent idea-virus. (more)

Sarah Constantin: Norms of Membership for Voluntary Groups. One feature of the internet that we haven’t fully adapted to yet is that it’s trivial to create voluntary groups for discussion. (Virtual Community, Civil Society) (tldr: there are a variety of types of norms available, which we should consider based on what our goals for a community are) (more)

Venkatesh Rao: So You Think You Can Retire, Punk? One of the big taboo subjects in the New Economy is long-term financial planning. (tldr: the classic planning strategies/investments don't work anymore, but there are (still uncertain-outcome) new strategies) (more)

Nikhil Krishnan: How To Make Friends 2.0. To make good friends (friendship), the general consensus amongst sociologists seems to be that we need three key components: (more)

Ben Thompson: The Voters Decide. Hans Noel’s op-ed in The New York Times on Tuesday. Noel is, along with Marty Cohen, David Karol and John Zaller, the author of the 2008 book The Party Decides. (tldr: what issues get spread is in the power of the people (e.g. emergent) rather than the party; though influenced by the mindless algorithmic feed) (more)

Benjamin Ross Hoffman: On the construction of beacons. Recently, a friend was telling me about the marketing strategy for a project of theirs. They favored growth, in a way that I was worried would destroy value. I struggled to articulate my threat model, until I hit upon the metaphor of that old haunter of my dreamscape, the anglerfish. (tldr: geeks should be careful about growing too fast (which attracts sociopaths), and be outspoken in defense of accuracy/quality against sociopath dilution) (more)

Allgebrah: Subcultures aren't dead. I disagree with David Chapman's MOP theory (2015-05-29-ChapmanGeeksMopsAndSociopathsInSubcultureEvolution). Neither are subcultures dead, nor is their lifecycle that simple. The theory's xenophobia smells and is, in my experience, unjustified. (tldr: defends newbies, but doesn't address sociopath/dilution issue) (more)

UI presenting Hierarchal Structure or EverythingIsAGraph representation. BlogThread, Twitter Thread, ThreadedDiscussion, ThreadMode

Most of the page below is specifically about the idea of a Wiki Page having a "Parent" page in Zwiki (and some other WikiEngine-s like TracWiki). (more)

i like to make familiar things feel new and new things feel familiar. i used to design digital products for Uber and for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. now, i’m researching and writing about memetic warfare, preventing online radicalization, and cultivating compassionate communities https://aaronzlewis.com/

Feature in Social Network and Media sites focused (initially) on chronological order, though may later be prioritized by some other signal (algorithmic feed). cf blog, RSS

book by Seth Godin ISBN:0786887176. http://www.sethgodin.com/ideavirus (more)

Instagram’s CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet - But Is That a Good @&#$ing Idea? (more)

Listen Up: Announcing the New ShineText App (more)

All We Want to Do Is Watch Each Other Play VideoGames. Content farms are spinning up in Los Angeles, where managers now see gamers as some peculiar new form of famous person to cultivate — half athlete, half influencer. And much of it is powered by the obsession with one game: Fortnite. Over the last month, people have spent more than 128 million hours on Twitch just watching other people play Fortnite, the game that took all the best elements of building, shooting and survival games and merged them into one. (more)