"There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre"
Kind: Notes
That being from a quote of Alexander Cockburn:
I am reminded by Wayback Machine that for a brief period in time my blog strapline was: "annulled by idle gusts of electronic massacre since 2006". Quite prescient, past me.
Repair and jobs.
“To say nothing of the impact on jobs: landfilling a kiloton of ewaste creates <1 job; recycling that waste creates 15 jobs, while repairing it creates 200 good, local jobs that can’t be offshored (you don’t send a phone overseas for repair).”
It’s been a nostalgic pleasure to have stumbled on old thoughts of mine from 15 years ago. Even though I was hosting it independently, the timelineliness of it all made me nonchalant – about my own thoughts! I got lucky that the Internet Archive has saved some of what I appear to have thought were ephemera to me at the time. With digital gardening I feel I’ll be more respectful of my notions going forwards.
RSS-Bridge is not working out that well so far for bridging Facebook and Twitter to be honest. I keep getting the same old posts reappearing in my feed reader.
Bookmark: Governing the Information Commons
"norms around ownership are so taken for granted that even projects expressly devoted to empowering users by wrestling ownership and control from big companies still encode these norms."
https://www.glizzan.com/2020/03/04/governing-the-information-commons.html
IndieForums looks nice. Seems like it might be a good catalyst for some blogchains and hyperconversations.
Jammed: Moderat – Seamonkey
Maggie Appleton has dropped an update to her awesome A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden page, and it now has a section The Six Patterns of Gardening. The patterns she lists chime excellently with how I view digital gardens. Her page is the best intro to them, IMO.
Having a ‘nowtions’ / ‘top of mind’ page in my digital garden is working well. I add new notions to it as they crop up, and visit it regularly which works as lowkey spaced repetition.
