Here is my empire.  

A tweet arrives. It contains a URL.
– is it useful? am I sold?

I click the link.
Which opens Chrome.

Was it blocked at the host level?
– (if it’s on business insider, nyt, wall street journal or a gawker site, I see this)

Have I already read it?
– Great! Close the window, consider sharing, or converse with the person who just tweeted the link.

Is it something I might read later, but cannot read now?
– Click “posthoc” to send to ReadItLater/Pocket, which is automatically scooped into Pinboard with one fewer step and an additional layer of redundancy. Sometimes it’s nice to skim Pocket to see what’s in there, especially while knowing it can all be archived/deleted with no worry.

Is it ugly?
– Reformat with Readability’s “Read Now”. * extraction

Or… do I find I’m already a paragraph in?
If so, I tap “Reading“. An API call is made:
* Reading adds the link to my reading log on Reading.am
* Reading posts a tweet on my @maxisreading twitter
* Reading sends the link to Pinboard, which keeps an archive of the the text and is my starting point for re-discovering/re-finding something I know I’ve read before.

While reading, if a quote stands out, tap Findings bookmarklet.
* This inserts a highlighting system into the page that makes it easy to clip a quote and posts that to findings.com/maxfenton.
* Everything I post to Findings this way is automatically pulled into a tumblr: notebookof.maxfenton.com
* Other users of Findings can discover that quote and follow the trail back to the article, or clip the quote however they wish. I think that’s what Findings is built for.
* Everything posted to this tumblr also gets pulled into Pinboard, so I get a double-up of the source article and the linkable quote URL.

Now, all the way back at that tweet. If in a hurry when seeing the link, or seeing something already read, but shared by someone kind and kindly: Star the tweet and send it through the RIL/Pocket » Pinboard process described above.

What else?

  • Sharing
  • Marginalia
  • Books/EPUBs

Those are the empire’s border-states; for another conversation.

Reference:

Today I learned some things about WordPress, CloudFlare, AWS, Markdown, wordpress cache, first drafts, second drafts, thinking aloud, revising in public, and getting back on the horse with help from:

* @everyplace
* http://sachagreif.com/modern-wordpress-development-in-2012/ (via @justincharles)
* http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/
* http://codex.wordpress.org/
* http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/markdown-on-save/


and this via @leppert

Notes from a six-day workshop with Johanna Drucker at MIT (April 2012)  

[ALL APOLOGIES FOR MIS/INFORMATION BELOW. THESE ARE UNEDITED NOTES WRITTEN IN THE MOMENT AT MIT HYPERSTUDIO]

  • JD WORKSHOP
    • practical experience -
    • CASE PROJECTS:
    • Sunset boulevard
      • IDEAS
        • communities
          • communities participating
            • CONTRIBUTORS LEAVE TRAILS for analytics
            • CONTRIBUTORS
              • amateur to expert
            • USERS
          • communities represented
        • Display environment
          • movement/location
            • basic routes
            • movements
            • navigation and conventions
            • (e.g. car culture: can this be a podcast / low-freq radio)
        • Layers
          • Material geography
          • imaginative geography
        • Input (contribution) vs. Access (consumption)
          • Authoring platform
            • mobile authoring
            • fuller authoring
        • QUESTIONS
          • who is it about
          • who reads it
          • what information
            • data types
        • Content types
          • Created
            • Knowledgebase of lived experience
            • Knowledgebase of stored information
              • information problem
                • incommensurate ontologies
                • meaning making
          • Accessible
            • Curation
              • Data
              • Metadata
            • data sets
              • expertise
              • pools of data
              • extant data sets
      • TASKS
        • 1
          • USERS AND PRECEDENTS
          • define users
            • let these be distinct enough to define the shapes of data
          • find precedents
          • use cases
          • define administrative structure
          • immersion
            • in relevant work
            • in virtual archives of materials
              • what’s it like to find those materials and bring them into the project
        • 2
          • define functionality
          • information architecture
      • DEFINE OUR USERS
        • NOVEL
        • LOCAL
          • expert in diversionary activities
          • axes
            • mobility
              • walking
              • lives on central boulevard
              • does something every day
                • leaving a trail
                • habits
          • PERSON 1
            • new to the place
              • frequent proximity
              • uses the site frequently to gather information, to explore
              • can explore the area from home (large screen, flaneur)
                • desktop / home computer
                  • contribution
                  • sharing stories
              • can explore with access to devices
                • automobile
                  • audio
                  • gps
                • pedestrian
                  • traffic
                  • present tense
                  • access
              • sees the present state of the place
                • might know some hollywood
          • PERSON 2
            • Larissa,
            • retired, woman, remembers history of the place, has stories, has lived in the area quite some time
              • has been a local a long time
              • has a few stories to share
              • met someone who had added stories and showed her one of them
              • exploration by map
                • density of information around
                • neighbors talking to each other
                • taking a longer walk
                • like a bunch of conversion
              • connections between people
                • interested in making friends
                • meeting neighbors
              • habits and routines
                • pedestrian
                • automotive
                • dogwalk
              • hardware
                • has a history to share
                • browses on a not-so-new computer
        • TOURIST
        • RESEARCHER
        • REENACTOR
        • JOURNALIST
        • TEACHER
    • Day 2
      • Annotation and Collaborative Writing
      • https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/page/17801672/FrontPage
      • I have a design problem and am looking for
        • New Node
      • analytics, computation, certain tools
        • thinking almost in analog terms, but with digital access, tols
        • haven’t fully integrated daily business ways of thinking that rely on digital means
        • “do we need those computational tools?”
          • productive relationship
          • useful relationship
      • conversation clock
        • exchanges in conversation
          • tagging
      • Yanni
        • mapped conversation
          • “trace how control is negotiated between humans and machines” (moment to moment)
            • lunar landing visualiation 1969
          • timestamp is spine of data
      • Vanessa
      • Visuality on the web involves temporality —JD
        • humanistic temporality
        • versus human time as a given
      • non-representational geography
      • tickets / data
      • Hye Jean
        • film production
          • global mapping
          • transactional mapping
        • compositing layer
        • assuming a map (traditional) or generating one of what the data shows
        • “what’s involved in the product you are consuming” –jd
      • miximize
      • things
        • socialbook
        • reading
        • pinboard
      • anthologies
        • “before they really knew what they were doing”
        • readlists
          • “The paradise of dainty devices”
          • contain:
            • lyrics (lyric poems)
            • ballads
            • (meant to be read aloud)
            • participation in court culture by proxy
            • commonplace book
            • “The Garden of the Muses”
              • all the plays he has at hand, all the poems— one or two lines
              • legal privelege
              • remix culture
                • 1.0
                • mixtapes
      • Juan Jose
        • platform software
      • demoscience.org
        • mapping controversy
        • demoscience.org
        • discourse analysis
          • complexity of language
          • context
        • “reification of misinformation” —JD
          • “turns complexity into a thing”
            • “it is” is always a fallacy
            • even as I’m passionately fascinated by visualization, it is reification of misinformation”
              • anything that takes apart the singularity of interpretation/information
      • Erin
      • ME
        • i am very good at feature requests
        • I want to see tools built, better
          • trying to map multiple paths of “usefullness” and see which tools/steps are missing.
            • “ecology of tools”
        • Looking at the Memex feedback loops of reading and writing
          • increasing frequency of iteration
          • decreasing barriers to participation
          • making the private (“marketable”) trails evident, useful
            • serendipity
            • conversation
            • connections
        • messaging systems, social networks,
        • show
          • social book
          • reading.am
          • readability
      • Allen
        • highlighting / annotation / discussion
        • online / offline
        • steve mambert
    • Day 3 – temporal modeling
      • • the gathering together of our own activity — the pull it together and post it out
      • place and space
      • reading and interpreted processes
        • by self-consciousness of collaborative annotation
      • how we engage with collaborative writing processes, how we annotate, and how we are informed by conventions whose
        • by Friday, go back to thinking about a mockup of platform
      • collaborative authoring tools
        • x
          • book blog
          • write together anywhere
          • etherpad
          • match ware
          • google wave
        • graphical formats and schemes of web writing and screen writing
          • what do they say about the argument
          • scroll forms
          • bulletin board forms
          • New Node
        • collaboration has always been part of scholarship
          • the canon is a corpus of collaborative work
          • informed, vetted, reliable
          • witnesses: documents and evidence
          • ex: greg crane perseus project
        • Vincent Van Gogh
          • interfeact shows you what the argument is and how to use the interface
          • legibility – downside is data’s locked into the interfacce
            • why not also a JSON api
        • narcissism is one of teh great pedagogical tools and so is competition.
          • competition
            • should there be a game economy with points and the like?
          • “Don’t think about the novel as it is; think about how you would change it.”
            • Where would you intervene?
          • Ivanhoe
            • how do you support collaborative interpretation
            • what kind of interventions
            • overview and navigation
            • always seeing it from somebody’s point of view
              • NO OVERVIEW
              • NO OMNIVIEW
              • always situated within some
              • assumption of ALWAYS being at some point of view
              • every version of every player’s interventionw as kept
                • every move was logged
                • sort by player or sort by date
            • what would
              • tactical, physical, graphical arrangement that lets you make your argument… visible
              • the annotation space, the workspace, how it would extend the capabilities…
                • New Node
              • TIME AND SPACE
                • is time a container into which things are put OR is it a
                • tmeporaility is almost never unidirectional homegeneous and ____
                  • almost always multidirectional, hetereogenous
                • representation of space and time in humanist documents
                • relationship among documents.
                  • the way documents in aggregate _____ temporality
                • where does the dividing instant belong?
                  • “actions and events in Interval Temporal Logi
                  • “is there any logical sort of temporality that isn’t covered by their logic
                  • Cartographies of time
                  • Pantographia – Fry
                    • timelines of temporalities, relative
                    • let a temporality emerge from the text, rather than assume a temporality
                    • “as a factor of time travel”
                  • Georectification
                    • republic of letters
                    • what were the routes, what were the times, what percentage was recieved.
                      • shannon, smr,
                      • “why can’t they engage with the more nuanced and imaginative”
                      • “It works great, but what’s the rhetoric?”
                        • semantic web and topic maps / pull different modes into play
                        • “Most visualizations are a reification of misinformation”
                  • EXAMPLES
                    • photosynth
                    • jonathan harris
                    • all the things i posted to reading
                      • lisbon circulation
                      • yanni’s class projects
                    • npr mississippi river
                      • New Node
                    • mit lab
                      • sensible city
                    • green book of segregated hotels
                  • The difference between:
                    • rending non-visible information on known maps
                    • versus the problem of historical maps
                    • humanistic / empirical
                      • is humanist a distortion of “the real map”
                      • a problem of authority
                        • a problem of cultural authority
                      • “how experience becomes coded back into landscapes and then landscapes carry the coding”
                        • embedded in the imaginary understanding of real places
                        • real effects on the way people experience those places
                        • crisis situations
                          • accumulative shared experiences
                  • Production produces a different set of insights.
    • homeworks
    • Day 3 – Narrative and Navigation and Orientation and Cognition
      • network sciences
        • what are?
      • NARRATIVE telling/told
      • NAVIGATION <–> WAYFINDING
      • COGNITION (FRAMES)
        • Aspen project
        • We can navigate through _____ without telling ourselves a story.
          • not just a path through the telling as a navigation, but an implied “told”
        • Navigation can often be done outside _____ experience.
          • WAYFINDING is ergodic
        • modularities of experience
          • synthesis
      • conventions
        • organizing discourse for the purpose of access/retrieve chunks of ______
        • FLOW
      • “DAY” by KG
        • graphic forms and graphic structure …. meaning
      • people are forgetting things but remembering how to find them.
        • great, so long as those don’t decay / delete
        • memory theaters
          • the uploading of ____ and the holding of it “in mind”
            • cog studies: much more about cues that trigger your understanding of what might come next
            • you know how to find your way home
            • New Node
        • cabinets of curiousity
        • blood in the gutter
          • cognitive frame jump
            • changing reference frame (as well as point of view in the narrative)
            • more workload / connections across the brain
          • cognitive reference frame jumps
          • power of scale
        • cognition is a distributed/integrated experience/process
          • the extent to which we’ve diminished that to focus on the screen – need to re-integrate the embodified part of that
        • constantly processing different temporal frames,
          • linguistic processing
        • how do we register
          • where
          • use
          • die fackel
            • image of book spines
          • WHERE ARE YOU when you’re in the Archive?
          • MRA = NO navigation of time, of journey, of distance, of increasing *remove* from that experience of presence
            • GROUP?
          • STRUCTURE of data materials for ready absorption
            • without fixing too tightly the combinatorial possibilities
        • the standard information system and the idiosyncratic one
          • associative memory
      • structure as affordance
        • “if you have a display structure, that’s organizing the relations between one unit and another, that’s part of the telling.” “but at what level does it operate at the level of the told” —
          • differentiation vs. the story I’m telling myself.
          • “and what’s the told?”
          • two units of iconic, semantic value.
            • “structures of justaposition hierarchy are CONSTANTLY in flux”
            • the structure of the database
      • knowledge of construction
        • fluency / transition from other media
        • experiential difference of media
          • literacy / fluency
        • “In that hour, I learned to watch film. Was taught, in effect, by the film itself.”
        • Gibson, William (2012-01-03). Distrust That Particular Flavor (p. 59). Penguin Group. Kindle Edition.
        • how something is made versus what is said
        • technique / technology
          • turtles the whole way down
        • bodyknowledge
          • you start where you start
    • Day 4
      • SCALE
        • Powers of Ten
          • where are the cues that let you know frame change
          • how many steps do you need to go from
            • n america
            • to city streets
              • sunset boulevard and
              • New Node
            • to guide someone graphically.
              • ALLEN
                • nation » state area » water » highways » streets » location
            • changing scale with graphical means of soemthing that’s not inherently graphic
              • distinctive features
              • references
          • what kind of large scale visualition is this good for and waht kinds of tools are good for finding
            • lots of largescale data visualizations
              • how: legibility to be made useful for some purpose
              • does it helps us to drill into data.
            • parameters, terms, scale,
              • Entities
              • so much of the semantic __ of large scale ___ visualizaiton ___ the __ screen realestate
                • level the nuances of distinction
                • correlate among more
              • “we will read towards continuity where no continuity exists”
              • what are the tasks to which these things can be used
            • Comedie-Francaise Register Project
              • you start [an inquiry] because you see a pattern
              • query tool
                • “Its an analytic query tool because it takes the information into relationships” JD
            • treemap
              • uses area
              • most common data deception in terms of area
              • “do data share party walls?”
            • network analysis diagrams
              • to what extent asre the spatical parameters merely an artifcat of constraints of display
            • circles
              • “It sounds conservative, but type is meant to be read in horizontal
            • http://corpus1.aac.ac.at/fackel/
              • tone, hue — contrast — graphic contrast between frames and what’s in the frames should never overwhelm the detail of the content you’re looking at —
                • when you do, you’re negating the visual
                • “It’s not that it’s (just) beautiful, but its beauty is at the service of a particular function” JD
            • what was cultural analytics good for
              • representative image
              • corpus
              • what kind of visual analysis or analysis of visual corpora can be made legible through this kind of visual display
                • pigments
                • datasets
                  • instagram
                  • har
                  • images in newstopics
                  • where is there a pile of images?
                  • presidential archives
                  • house photos
                  • eye tracking charts
                  • proportions
                  • changing footprints of
                  • painting dimension
                    • collections you can never see at once, and never will be
                      • from there studios, costs of productions, collection
                      • multiple collections that are disparate and will never be collected
                  • page size
                    • textblock to margin
                  • perse archive
                    • ink samples
                    • arrangements
                    • by ink sample groups
                  • handwriting / manuscript
                • DISPAPAD = disintscholplataugpublishauthoringdisplay
                  • FEATURES
                    • GPS, Mapping, Gero-Interface Temporal guide to experience/planner
                    • Search, research area
                    • Geo-location
                    • INDICES
                    • EDITING
                    • ACCESS TO PRIMARY MATERIALS
                    • MAP INTERFACE
                    • AREA FOR STORAGE
                    • ETC
                      • Analytics
                      • Visualization
                      • Annotation
                      • Versioning
                      • Text Processing
                      • Data Mining
                      • Topic Modeling
                      • Semantic Maps
                    • + emergent features
                  • + DIRT site
                  • What’s a minimum you want to give them and at what point do you want to say “you need something else”
                  • THINK ABOUT full-featured Dispapad
          • BUILD/SKETCH/DESIGN
            • FEATURES GPS, Mapping, Geo-Interface Temporal guide to experience/planner
            • FEATURES: search, research area
            • FEATURES Geo-location of information historical, fictional, factual; timeline for access
            • FEATURES Indices, search, geo-location
            • FEATURES editing, production, creative work, avatar production, character programming, narrative, extra-textual editing, augmented reality
            • FEATURES: access to high level authentic primary materials as well rich data sets
            • FEATURES Map interface, seeing maps, location links, film archive access
            • FEATURES Area for storage, collection, publish into the system, support student production/editing as well with geo-location to reconnect to physical space
            • Analytics? Information Visualization? Annotation? Versioning? Text Processing? Data Mining? Topic Modelling? Semantic Maps?
    • THURSDAY LECTURE
      • digital humanities
        • success at: repositories, open and available
          • 20 years project
            • international
            • aggregation
            • geographic crossings
            • labors of love
            • density of information gathering
            • interface achievements
          • examples
            • shakespeare quartos
            • po.ex
              • multimedia
              • labor of love
                • ubu
        • thesis: most humanist scholars feel that the repos are places to seach, not responsibilities to build
        • projects by JD / in line with this project
          • Temporality modeling /
          • temporal graphing
            • time
              • not linear
              • not homogeneous
              • not continuous
            • model temporality differently in accord with humanistic principles
            • how do you begin to analyze [temporality]
              • conceptual primitives that will give rise to models
              • ask: history of conceptions of temporality across disciplines and worldviews
              • “Now slider”
                • “now is to time as here is to space”
                  • “I mean, I didn’t make that up” JD
              • modeling as
                • elements
                • entitites
                  • point
                  • interval
                  • event
                • behaviors
                  • what can an event do?
                  • what can a point do?
                • actions
                  • what can a user do (in the system)?
                • ** FUN ** to do
                  • — modeling narrative
                  • — modeling…
                  • exercise of having to come up with a content model
                    • testing iteratively through a series of designs
            • built in flash by Jim Almond
          • Ivanhoe
            • all user actions as interpretation, as subjective POV
            • final display mode
              • all actions are logged
              • all actions are inter-related
              • aggregate of all actions and interactions == visualized
                • picture of actions of interpretations
              • the kinds of problems we gave ourselves were very different than the problems of archiving / repositories
          • New Node
          • Artist Books Online
            • http://www.artistsbooksonline.org/
            • DIY
              • JD built it
                • XML
            • taxonomy
            • what I was trying to learn online and extract from a community
              • osmosis
              • abduction
              • What is the field?
            • structure the fields (data/metadata) to structure the QUESTIONS in the forms themselves
              • coercive metadata
            • aesthetic issues
              • inspiration
              • related works
              • etc
            • every page of the book should be scanned
              • natural unit of the book is th eopening
            • thickness of metadata
            • asking questions that spur thinking about the field
            • [github the DTD]
          • Museum of Writing
          • Personal projects
            • All the books I ever wanted to write or wrote and never published
              • limits of one’s knowledge
              • database memoir
            • table of contents
              • database affords lateral manouvering
              • points of entry
              • references
              • writing to the requirements of the XML structure
                • imprint of the collector/author
                • imprint the collectorauthor
                  • another author (me) writing about myself
            • letterpress
              • “when will I have that kind of fluency in the digital environment?”
              • “I want to be able to arrange things”
              • “I want to be able to write diagramatically”
                • flexible scale
                • bifurcation
                  • multiple
                  • not either/or
                  • IF
              • New Node
        • conceptual/intellectual toolset for humanists working in construction of ____
      • DESIGN SKILLS for HUMANISTS
      • q/a
        • “I’m a believer that thinking and doing are related” — the feedback loop on thinking by making has been tremendous
        • the things you can’t do
          • show
            • how the tool structures your argument
        • prototyping
        • collaboration
          • shared credit
          • shared intellectual credit
          • “Knowing how to talk to someone about what you want done is a mutual education process.”
          • You can’t think those things outside the making.
            • thinking about novelty
            • (like film)
            • even if it’s an xml scheme, a classification system— it gets you inside the problem
        • alanlytics
          • how is it made
          • for whom is it made
          • what are the formal properties
          • what are the social conditions
          • “It’s not my field, but I know that someone who knows computer languages would tell me you want to teach these principles and how to learn them.”
        • do digital humanists ever do user studies? — no
          • huge blindspot in history of digital humanities but less bad now than it once was
        • skills
          • statistics
          • visual theory and criticality
            • behaviors, tasks, public. prvate life — lived in a visual mode
            • the screen is our interface to so much of the world at the point
          • writing modularly
            • granularity
            • design of rhetoric
          • learning to use the repositories
            • using information to enhance (not replace) critical methods
            • I think aesthetics is a way of knowing
            • “Do I care or not care. That’s the first decision you have to make.”
    • FRIDAY
      • 1
        • Platrforms that aren’t built around the contnet and content that’s not locked into the platform
          • so you can have activities behaviors and use that aren’t built around the
        • map
          • navigation scale doesn’t have to be study scale
          • “become narrative lines”
            • but pull up different information
          • 2.5 dimensions
            • New Node
        • how will I know what data is in here?
        • platform
          • you can make your own project on
            • maker interface
          • series of exemplary partnerships
          • data
            • temporal data
            • spatial data
            • cultural information
              • films and novels
            • expose categories that are available to be worked with
            • ex: zoning and tax base
              • how’s it going to appear to me?
            • reverse image lookup
          • “the map”
            • array of maps and documen
          • some kind of lens as a data refractor
            • how the data has been arrived at
          • Q: What is a publication based on all of this?
            • original sources, citations, commentary
            • heatmap of most edited
            • do each of these arrive as a wiki?
              • versions?
            • iterative instance that’s a fixed snapshot in time
            • wiki relation of
            • pointers to things in other repositirories and …. only has a reference point in other repositories
            • what are the methods of weighting and sorting and sifting
              • heatmap
              • …
            • psychology visualization
            • AUTODESK projects
      • WHAT ARE THE FLUENCIES THAT WILL
        • INTERSECT WITH A PRACTICE OF MAKING
        • zone of new media studies
          • act of making
          • that allows you to get inside the decision
          • Digital Humanities curriculum document
            • “What are the challenges as educators that we are trying to address in introducing topics of expertise and experience that weren’t there before?” JD
            • “Who will teach the people to scan?”
            • “What are the ways we’re preparing students to do the work we see ahead? — as researchers, individuals, and in the world around us”
            • defamiliarize the process of watching media
              • produced artifact
              • “I’m dedicated to ideological deconstruction. It’s how I was raised.”
                • “In whose interest?”
                • “How is it constructed?”
                  • old fashioned russian formalism
                  • “The more something looks like nature, the more it’s culture.”
            • -
              • what is digital humanities
                • comp ling
                • repo building
                • New Node
              • interface
                • interface design
                • interface theory
                • theories of
                  • flow
                  • subjectivity
                  • who is speaking and who is spoken?
              • structured data
                • xml + ti
                • classification systems and typologies
                • “what is this? and what is this?…”
                • forensics exercise
                  • identifiers
                • database exercise
              • graphs
                • any lists
                  • then every kind of graph
              • GIS
                • google maps GIS exercise
              • networks
                • network analysis
              • design workshop
                • html
                • webmonkey
                • omeka
                • balsamiq
                • project:
                  • omeka or html
                  • if html, at least three layers deep
                    • navigation
                    • organization
                • a class that could be taught parse/fail
              • draft of an NEH project
                • because it came before lab, they were making projects that weren’t grounded in making
                • New Node
            • the difference between the book and the kitchen and the restaurant critic
    • thinking
      • presence
        • announcing presence vs. hiding presence
      • io
        • input output / feedback loops, iterations and feedback loops
      • somatics and dance
        • tools for healing / collaborating / support
      • public/private /semi—
      • portfolio work
      • links to send johanna
    • Temporality and Space
    • Navigation and Narration
    • SATURDAY
      • looking at design (challenges)
        • what kind of (network) environment
          • make available specialized knowledge
          • New Node
        • sunset boulevard
          • historian of los angeles
          • interested in comparative studies that come out of — build a
          • use the course to get students involved in cultural geography by looking at “a trip”
            • a bus route
            • an itinerary
            • an experience
          • students decode the cultural landscape and add to the base of knowledge.
          • √ material
            • integrate current web tech with deep repo
            • huge amount of photographs, maps
            • cultural materials
        • away from project based activity that builds a custom infrastructure
          • towards making a shared platform
        • analytic tools
          • process information at a next level
            • into an analysis that’s done compytationally
        • an argument
          • a configured navigation through an arrangement of
            • infinite number of constellations in a night sky
            • infinite number of constellationary arguments
        • capturing an interrogation process
          • how do you get from interrogating the data » publishing
          • “1 more step” JD —
            • back to panorama view
            • topicmap array of materials that are related to the GPS point or a fair topic
            • you could capture a scholar’s work as part of that
          • How do you formulate questions
        • conversation to discuss rather than sequester one’s findings.
        • WHAT IS THE THING?
        • exploration
          • motivating exploration
          • “the addictive quality of angry birds”
            • tracking the wild parrots
            • ergodic play
            • ludic aspect
        • NEXT STEPS
          • functiona
            • quickly sketched up
            • motivate people to become involved
            • design competition
              • some kind of incentives
              • DESIGNING THE DESIGN COMPETITION
                • DESIGN THE CALL
                • un-competition
            • existing systems
              • map the route from where you are to where you can be
              • these are the elements and object we want to support
                • so what kind of data do we need to support
                • we want to support people doing interesting work rather than ask for free work
                • coordinating design committee
                • DPLA
                  • this is the model they’ve been using to develop their technology
                  • put out a call for people to submit very large or very small (or anythign) pieces of what the technology should be/do
                    • an they’re ebing put together noe
                    • now still building, now still involved in the project
              • GROPING TOWARDS SOMETHING
                • people come to the conference to see the presentations
                • knight
                • startup proposal
                • Brooklyn Beta Summer Camp
                  • betaworks
                    • chartbeat, bitly, findings, socialflow, etc.
              • What’s the least amount of framework that can be added to what’s already out there?
Starting anew  

I scratch notes and photograph them, send emails (sometimes), and tweet all day and night. But it’s been quite a while since I wrote anything.

Seems like the right time to get started again, for a couple of reasons I know and probably quite a few I don’t:

  • The mind gets sharper when you write.
  • I’ve been interrupting a lot of conversations recently
  • I have a few ideas about version-tracking and editions and editing that really need to be experienced rather than speculated upon
  • tools for web publishing have come so far (without me) that I’m more often pointing towards either the fantasy we once had of what now would be or—worse—just to the way things once were.

Q: Why so many bullet lists?
A: I don’t know.