I am re-organizing how I approach blogging. Before I was trying to “write articles” or something or other… That was fun, and I still aim to do that. But I feel the way I’m using technology morphing to meet other changes that are happening in the organization of my life and the integration of my mind - if that makes any sense.
Wrote a little bit about datawakes the other day… It’s a pretty straight-ahead metaphor, but it’s basically the notion that you immerse yourself in data, and as you swim/navigate through it, you leave a trail in your passing. But not a simple linear trail of this URL followed by this URL, like a stupid-old web history in a browser though. That doesn’t really tell you much of anything. What I want to be able to trace is how things fit together. I want clusters and running narratives with sub-plots and actors - a musical, essentially - in which I am an actor, director, writer, etc. And I don’t want to just track how it all fits together, but I want to be able to slide it around and re-organize it and use it to build things with.
So the re-organization of my blog is a first step towards actualizing a paradigm shift using existing technology as a focal point for the creation of new technologies: linguistic, social, business and technological.
My datawake is starting to fuse with other people’s datawakes who are interested in these things as well. Was contacted recently by a member of the ‘Saturday House‘, a group of uber-geeks who meet up here in Seattle every Saturday (except this one apparently). The fellow who contacted me, Lion, has an awesome diagram of his own personal datawake, although I doubt he calls it that.
So anyway, the way I’m using my blog now is basically to create reference points, which then become nodal centers for other thoughts to stick to. More on this in a moment…
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Wanted to save to my “living clipboard” this bit from Lion’s diagram:
“Realization that mass technology defines our epoch. Technology, not social action, shall be our fulcrum. Technology will determine social action.“
I love that diagram.
I like the change to the site layout by the way, including keeping the post titles aligned to the right. it’s refreshing somehow.
also digging all the little changes (the ADD + VALUE button, the ‘In the Wild/This Garden’ thing, the stratagem at the bottom there, the other thing just above that)… you are pollinating my brain-idea-garden with goodness!
Reinforcement just below the level of conscious awareness. You see it but you don’t necessarily notice it. Foundation of all marketing.
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