Gary Wolf profiles Howard Rheingold. Reed College, InstituteForNoeticSciences, WELL, Xerox PARC, Tools For Thought, Virtual Reality, Virtual Community, Electric Minds. The first promoters of online communication harbored serious hopes that these new technologies - modems, bulletin boards, internet sites - would contribute to the resolution of social problems. By reducing the cost of publishing and by shielding appearance, accent, and other particulars of identity, online technologies might prove an antidote to prejudice and chauvinism. Rheingold shared this idealism and presented it forcefully.

Visakan Veerasamy had some interesting tweets: it’s possible to take a long/extended view such that the bites (Twitter nuggets) constitute a much bigger web of threads. The platform definitely isn’t optimized for this but it’s very possible... How do you read books other than one word at a time? I think the difference is that books are discrete linear packages, while the web is continuous & omni-directional. Focus is a function of frame; books are pre-framed; operating in the web necessitates holding your own frame... Been reflecting on this for some time, this idea that the web destroys people’s ability to focus on something like reading a book. Sometimes I suspect people have it sort of backwards. Focusing on a single self-contained experience to me is sometimes kind of like eating baby food.. As I get older and my mind-palace gets larger and more comprehensive (with other people’s ideas) I get less & less casually-randomly interested in books written by other people. I am currently most intrigued by the books that exist only in my imagination; that’s my primary focus... I change frames a LOT – but because I keep track of a lot of them (my various twitter threads, for example), I can always go back and pick up where I left of, and over time this builds an immense, intricate extended-mind-palace. (Hypertext) (more)

web developer, web development - creator/process for a world wide web site/webapp, cf web app framework (more)

WebApp Framework that handles all the code for both the server and Rich Client sides of a WebApp. (Most people use "FullStackWebFramework" to frameworks that cover all the pieces of either the server or client side, but not both together.) (more)

Application using a web browser as its Thin Client, vs a separate binary Rich Client. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: Which type of novelty-seeking web developer are you? I’m noodling around at home and taking stock after having left a job of four years. (more)

big-design-up-front of shared vocabulary

We used MetaTag-s for multiple purposes at MedScape. For some explanation, see Medscape Lite C M S. (more)

Map of Content, Maps of Content - Nick Milo term for Roadmap Page

Wikis often include RoadMap pages for specific topics/themes to bring together some context across key related pages. (See WikiWikiWeb:RoadMap, WikiWikiWeb:CategoryRoadMap.) (more)

John Bell: People who are having fun on the internet. Which brings us to online communities and the silos we self-select into. (more)

Update your log of what you accomplished during the past day, and pick the MITs to accomplish in the next day. I do this within my WeeklyLog page of my PrivateWikiNotebook. (more)

process of embracing associative nature of ideas - hypertext, backlinks

Anne-Laure Le Cunff: on Networked thinking: a quiet cognitive revolution. While nowadays the spotlight is on artificial intelligence, space exploration, and other exciting areas of research, another quiet revolution is changing the way we ideate and collaborate. (more)

ThinkingTool by Conor White-Sullivan (and others?). A Note Taking Tool for Networked Thought. Inspired by the Zettelkasten. http://roamresearch.com/ (more)

Nick Milo: LYT Notes 35: Live note-making + Jazz. One night last week, I listened to jazz. The next morning I decided to record my efforts to learn, understand, and honor the topic in my PKM system. (more)

RJ Nestor: Now or Never Productivity: Use the Three “Now Lists”. Productivity is answering one simple question — What do I do Right Now? — and then doing it! (more)

Jonathan Miller: 10 Favorite Takeaways from Linking Your Thinking Fall '21. Recently, I completed the Fall 2021 session of Nick Milo's Linking Your Thinking workshop. It is an Obsidian-centric, cohort-based course centered around a couple of core principles: note-making and maps of content. (more)

Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Redefining knowledge management with Kevin Lin, founder of Dendron. Welcome to this edition of our Tools for Thought series, where we interview founders on a mission to help us think better and become more creative and productive. Kevin Lin is the founder of Dendron, a lightning fast, open source personal knowledge management tool that lives in your integrated development environment (IDE). (more)

RJ Nestor: Supercharge Your Productivity: Three Recommended Tools for Thought. Maybe you don’t need a simple, flexible environment to plan projects, convert knowledge to action, get clear when you’re stuck, or develop reliable procedures to streamline future work. But if you do want those benefits, choose a TfT and make it the spine of your productivity system. (more)