Cal Newport: The Deep Life: Some Notes. To me, the deep life is about focusing with energetic intention on things that really matter — in work, at home, and in your soul — and not wasting too much attention on things that don’t. (SimplestThing) (more)

Cal Newport: More Thoughts on Amplifying Meaning in Your Work. Earlier this week I explored how practitioners of the deep life sometimes use inspiring environments to amplify the meaning they derive from their work. Today, I want to briefly elaborate on two other strategies I’ve observed for accomplishing this same goal… (more)

Cal Newport: Cultivating a Deep Life. I’ve been thinking about ways to evolve towards a deeper life. (more)

Mark Bernstein: Categories and tags and the like are all efforts to build value from archives. They usually fail, because they ask you to work now to get benefits later, and because their value diminishes if you don't use them every single day. Perhaps some Automatic Linking might help. (more)

Google is going to finally help in the SpamWars via a No Follow tag attribute which blog software developers can use in their Comment forms to reduce the Page Rank benefit of Comment Spam. See 2004-02-08-CommentSpamIdea for similar idea. Here's Google's official announcement plus some comments from Dave Winer. (more)

A key Ted Nelson/Xanadu reference. I'm not clear on the precise definition. I think of it as "inclusion via reference" (e.g. from the viewer's perspective a remote document is "part of" the current document, but it's really being pulled/displayed from that remote original store). (more)

Philosopher http://radicalacademy.com/adlerbio.htm (more)

Kevin Marks on decentralized approaches to Tagsonomy (2004-01-18-TechnoratiTags). He notes that to get picked up by Technorati you don't have to link to their tag URI. I wonder whether a simple tweak to my WikiEngine would end up automatically feeding Technorati based on my WikiWordAsTag mentality? (more)

Product Review authored via Structured Blogging tool (more)

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metropolitan region, metro area or just metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing: industry, infrastructure, and housing.[1] A metro area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, cities, exurbs, counties, districts, states, and even nations like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.[2] Metropolitan areas include one or more urban areas, as well as satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socio-economically tied to the urban core, typically measured by commuting patterns.[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area (more)

Finally implemented a Cached BackLinks idea - Visible Backlinks. In any non-bloggy Wiki page, the BackLinks show up at the bottom of the page, so you don't have to bother hitting the BackLinks page, and you're reminded of the pages that refer to the current page. Two Way Links are a key benefit of Wiki's auto-linking-via-WikiWord - I think this approach makes that benefit more tangible. Let me know what you think. (more)

blogger, stopped May'2014 https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ (more)

MetaWiki-like service delivered via JavaScript. See 2012-12-01-BuildingWikiGraph (more)

word I used before switching to "WikiLog" (more)

WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins.[2] WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated usage of physics and image processing and effects as part of the web page canvas. WebGL elements can be mixed with other HTML elements and composited with other parts of the page or page background... WebGL 1.0 is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 and provides an API for 3D graphics.[5] It uses the HTML5 canvas element and is accessed using Document Object Model (DOM) interfaces... A non-exhaustive list of libraries that provide many high-level features includes A-Frame (VR), BabylonJS, PlayCanvas, three.js, OSG.JS and CopperLicht... There also has been a rapid emergence of game engines for WebGL, both 2D and 3D,[54] including Unreal Engine 4 and Unity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL (more)

Google project to use your Mobile for VR. (more)

Dave Winer thinks D And D Group Forming-via-CrowdFunding can coalesce on KickStarter and other neo-DiscussionForum sites. I figured that blogging communities (BlogWeb) would form and out of that would come new products and businesses, and products that more closely match the way people really are, not the way the companies imagine we are. I've been inside enough companies to know how badly companies abstract the needs and wants of users. Now, KickStarter, an idea I knew was right from the get-go (wish I had had a chance to invest) is either tapping into the knowledge that users have that vendors are missing big opportunities because of poor vision. I think sites like GdgT and Stack Overflow are tapping into the other side of it, providing venues for smart users to share experience. Eventually the two will meet. Threads will start on these sites and migrate to Kickstarter, and the mutual-itch will turn into a vision, and it gets funded, and is realized. Or at least have a chance to be realized.

Will have to extend WikiGraph to support WikiEngines with FreeLinks, because that's what almost all spaces have. (more)

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