David Wiley with a great comment on yesterday’s post: The answer, more or less, is yes. And initially that seems like a dealbreaker. But here’s the history of the web, from me, condensed. A long time ago very smart people decided that web pages had to all look different, that your stuff would only exist … Continue reading Open Licences and SFW
There’s a follow-up to this article, now, which explains the federated wiki angle to this more clearly.. “Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on his work, by whatever twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by keeping the links outside the file, as he did.” – Ted Nelson, eulogizing Doug … Continue reading Beyond Conversation
Operations in Smallest Federated Wiki tend to be page-level — dashboard style site managers have been avoided for the moment. Still, the speed at which operations can be executed makes site-wide stuff pretty easy. This video shows how to copy a small fifteen page site in about a minute. If you think about how long … Continue reading Copying a Whole Site Is Remarkably Easy In Smallest Federated Wiki
Via @roundtrip, this conversation from July: There’s actually a pretty simple alternative to the current web. In federated wiki, when you find a page you like, you curate it to your own server (which may even be running on your laptop). That forms part of a named-content system, and if later that page disappears at … Continue reading The Web is Broken and We Should Fix It
I should probably stop talking about the federated aspects of Smallest Federated Wiki — as I mentioned before, whether federation works or not for any given use case is speculative. There is no way to come to real agreement about it since it relies on us making predictions about how people will act in a … Continue reading All the Versions of the Amelia Bedelia Wikipedia Entry
The big news right now in social media-land is that a Buzzfeed editor is a plagairist. Here’s coverage on that from TPM: In one particularly damning example, Johnson allegedly copied a 2009 post on Yahoo! answers. “Throughout the London Blitz, over a million incendiaries and around 50,000 high explosive bombs were dropped on London,” wrote … Continue reading Plagairism and Evolution and Attribution Statements
I mentioned earlier that I’d decided to change my explanation of federated wiki from a “top-down” explanation to a “bottom-up” one. It makes a heck of a difference. I made this video below for one of our faculty, to show how even something as simple as notes becomes an integrative exercise in federated wiki. I … Continue reading Federated Wiki for Distributed Notetaking (and the surprising pedagogical implications of that)
Kin and Audrey have already written up pretty extensive summaries about the Reclaim event in Los Angeles. I won’t add much. Everything was wonderful, and I hope I don’t upset people by choosing one thing over another. But there were a few things for me that stood out. Seeing the Domain of One’s Own development … Continue reading Reclaim Hackathon
I’ve borrowed Jon Udell’s term (“universal canvas”) for talking about SFW. In this video I talk about a plugin my brother Ben wrote for SFW earlier this week, and try to show what that means in semi-mechanical terms. One of the things I think it starts to show is how much of a construction kit … Continue reading The Universal JSON Canvas and Ben’s Five Star Plugin
I’ve been struggling to explain SFW interface to people. Which is weird. Because I actually think the interface is one of the stronger features. I have come to wish I could surf the web in SFW instead of say Chrome. It solves a bunch of issues Ted Nelson tried to solve but more elegantly and … Continue reading Interface, and the First Sixty Minutes
