Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/17/22: The Rise of BA.2. Omicron has made its way through every major country except one: China. Its time seems to have come (more)

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Few statements about the real world are "true": All Models Are Wrong. But we make Claims all the time anyway. We try to call some of them "facts" or "assumptions" or "beliefs" or "hypothesis" or "models" as though those were well-distinguished things, or at a "hypothesis" is "based on" facts and assumptions. But the Nature of Truth is messier than that. (more)

Group at MIT founded by Jay Forrester to study Systems Thinking. (more)

System dynamics is a methodology for studying and managing complex FeedBack systems, such as one finds in business and other Social System-s. (more)

There are many users for new note-taking apps. So why Don't More People Share Their Digital Gardens? By "share" I don't mean "let anyone edit them", but just "let anyone read them". (more)

note-taking app heavily driven by zettelkasten approach - https://www.zettlr.com/ (more)

creator of Zettlr - https://www.hendrik-erz.de/ (more)

Frank Carver: Whither Zettlr. The Zettlr project is ongoing, and the different views of the purpose of the application are causing tension when considering improvements, implementing new features and prioritising bug fixes. (See Hendrik Erz response further below.) (more)

Nick Milo: In what ways can we form useful relationships between notes? (more)

David Pierce: Users are taking the internet back. One reason Obsidian has recently captured the imagination of so many people in the tech world is that it comes awfully close to turning that model on its head. (more)

Meet Logseq, an open-source knowledge management system that ‘stores data like a brain’. With support for markup languages such as Markdown and Emacs’ Org-mode, Logseq enables users to create tasks, manage and store notes or to-do lists, embed pages, annotate PDFs and create links between all the information contained within, to create a free flow of information. (more)

Rika Goldberg #40: We need quality. Since making another attempt at building a note-taking system, I have noticed that I am becoming more scrupulous of my writing. (more)

David Kadavy: My Zettelkasten: An Author’s Digital Slip-Box Method Example (Using Plain-Text Software) – Love Your Work, Episode 250. I talked about Zettelkasten in my How to Take Smart Notes book summary on episode 249, but here’s a quick review (more)

Joel Hooks: My blog is a digital garden, not a blog. I'm considering how it affects the way I approach my little slice of the web at https://joelhooks.com. It is a blog, sure, but it is also a wiki. It's a spot where I can post ideas, snippets, resources, thoughts, collections, and other bits and pieces that I find interesting and useful (more)

h-entry is a simple, open format for episodic or datestamped content on the web. h-entry is often used with content intended to be syndicated, e.g. blog posts. h-entry is one of several open microformat standards suitable for embedding data in HTML. http://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2#h-entry (more)

HTTP POST (more)

HTML-based forms (vs XML-based XForms) - the key to the Thin Client (more)

"XForms" is W3C's name for a specification of Web Forms that can be used with a wide variety of platforms including desktop computers, hand helds, information appliances, and even paper. XML-based (more)

HTTP-Post with body structured like Web Forms