September 25th, online:
We’ll discuss and brainstorm ideas related to wikis, commonplace books, digital gardens, zettelkasten, and note taking on personal websites and how they might interoperate or communicate with each other. This can include IndieWeb building blocks, user interfaces, functionalities, and everyones’ ideas surrounding these. Bring your thoughts, ideas, and let’s discuss and build.
Steven Johnson has oft waxed lyrical on the benefits of keeping a spark file—the modern equivalent of a nineteenth century commonplace book.
I started keeping a spark file. But I was keeping it the late lamented Editorially so my experiment was cut short. This is far as I got…
The transatlantic telegraph cable :: the space elevator.
The web :: the patent that never was.
The Mechanical Turk as design fiction, influencing Babbage.
These are the ramblings of a madman. But I might be able to use some of this—I need to prepare a new talk for later this year.