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  • Microcosm

    Dame Wendy Hall, at the University of Southhampton, sought to extend the life of the link further in her own program, Microcosm. Each link made by the user was stored in a linkbase, a database apart from the main text specifically designed to store metadata about connections. In Microcosm, links could never die, never rot away. If their connection was severed they could point elsewhere since links weren’t directly tied to text. You could even write a bit of text alongside links, expanding a bit on why the link was important, or add to a document separate layers of links, one, for instance, a tailored set of carefully curated references for experts on a given topic, the other a more laid back set of links for the casual audience.

    Jay Hoffmann, Web History Chapter 1: Birth
    • www
    • connection
    • hypermedia

    A video on Microcosm can be found on are.na.

  • gwern.net

    A Website by Gwern Branwen
    www.gwern.net
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    The goal of these pages is not to be a model of concision, maximizing entertainment value per word, or to preach to a choir by elegantly repeating a conclusion. Rather, I am attempting to explain things to my future self, who is intelligent and interested, but has forgotten. What I am doing is explaining why I decided what I did to myself and noting down everything I found interesting about it for future reference. I hope my other readers, whomever they may be, might find the topic as interesting as I found it, and the essay useful or at least entertaining–but the intended audience is my future self.

    • writing
    • hypermedia
    • commonplace
  • Tinderbox

    An Application
    www.eastgate.com

    Tinderbox is a workbench for your ideas and plans, ands ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them today, and it will adapt to your changing needs and growing knowledge.

    Your Tinderbox documents can help organize themselves, keeping your data clean. We believe in information gardening: as your understanding grows, Tinderbox grows with you.

    • notetaking
    • hypermedia
    • information
  • Obsidian

    An Application
    obsidian.md
    Image from obsidian.md on 2020-08-08 at 7.58.17 PM.png

    Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

    In Obsidian, making and following [[connections]] is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph.

    1. ​​are.na​​
    2. ​​Tangent Notes​​
    • knowledge
    • hypermedia
    • thinking
    • networks
    • notetaking
  • Stepping out of the firehose

    An Article by Benedict Evans
    www.ben-evans.com

    In 1800, if you’d said that you wanted something ‘made by hand’, that would be meaningless - everything was handmade. But half a century later, it could be a reaction against the age of the machine - of steam and coal-smoke and ‘dark satanic mills.’ The Arts and Crafts movement proposed slow, hand-made, imperfect craft in reaction to mass-produced ‘perfection’ (and a lot of other things besides). A century later this is one reason I’m fascinated by the new luxury goods platforms LVMH and Kering, or indeed Supreme. How do you mass-manufacture, mass-market and mass-retail things whose entire nature is supposedly that they’re individual?

    ...we keep building tools, but also we let go. That’s part of the progression - Arts and Crafts was a reaction against what became the machine age, but Bauhaus and futurism embraced it. If the ‘metaverse’ means anything, it reflects that we have all grown up with this now, and we’re looking at ways to absorb it, internalise it and reflect it in our lives and in popular culture - to take ownership of it. When software eats the world, it’s not software anymore.

    1. ​​Things that don't scale​​
    2. ​​Dark satanic mills​​
    • hypermedia
    • progress
    • society
    • technology
  • Tangent Notes

    A Tool by Taylor Hadden
    tangentnotes.com
    Image from tangentnotes.com on 2021-10-10 at 9.06.33 AM.png

    Your Brain, Your Notes: A clean and powerful notes app for Mac & Windows.

    1. ​​Andy's working notes​​
    2. ​​Obsidian​​
    • notetaking
    • hypermedia
  • Monoskop

    A Website
    monoskop.org

    Monoskop is a wiki for the arts, media and humanities.

    1. ​​barnsworthburning.net​​
    • hypermedia
    • art
    • media
    • culture
  • Glasp

    An Application by Kazuki Nakayashiki & Kei Watanabe
    glasp.co
    9BA8D0E4-6D48-4029-8750-B4A4478B6F6C.png

    Collect the Web,
    Express Yourself.

    Collect what truly matters to you from the web. It's who you are. Like-minded people will find and learn from you.

    Glasp is a social highlighting app that allows you to highlight and tag what you think is important while reading articles or watching videos on the web.

    1. ​​Highlighter​​
    2. ​​What this site is​​
    • hypermedia
    • connection
    • collections

    For obvious reasons, I’ll be watching this project with great interest. Maybe it’ll succeed where Highlighter apparently could not.

  • are.na

    An Application by Charles Broskoski
    www.are.na

    Build ideas mindfully.

    Save content, create collections, and connect ideas with other people.

    1. ​​Obsidian​​
    2. ​​Roam Research​​
    3. ​​What this site is​​
    4. ​​On Motivation​​
    • thinking
    • networks
    • hypermedia
    • notetaking

    I used are.na pretty heavily at one point. Though I no longer do, I think it sets a standard for craft-oriented thinking tools.

  • Whostyles

    A Definition by Kicks Condor
    www.kickscondor.com
    Screenshot of www.kickscondor.com on 2021-08-22 at 12.27.54 PM.png

    The 'whostyle' is a way of styling syndicated hypertext from other writers. This could be a quoted excerpt or a complete article. A feed reader could use a 'whostyle' to show a post without stripping all of its layout.

    1. ​​Whomst styles?​​
    • hypermedia
    • css
  • Whomst styles?

    An Article by Robin Sloan
    www.robinsloan.com
    Screenshot of www.robinsloan.com on 2021-08-22 at 12.36.39 PM.png

    This is a “whostyle”: an attempt to carry the ~timbre~ of an author’s voice, in the form of their design sensibility, through into a quotation. It’s the author who defines their whostyle; the quoting site just honors it, a frame around their words.

    I think the whostyle makes a few arguments. Among them:

    • Text is more than a string of character codes. Its design matters, typography and layout alike; these things support (or subvert!) its affect, argument, and more.
    • The web should be more colorful and chaotic, along nearly every dimension. The past five years have brought a flood of new capabilities, hugely expressive — let’s use them!
    • Quoting is touchy, and anything you can do to cushion it with respect and hospitality is a plus.
    1. ​​Whostyles​​
    • hypermedia
    • typography
    • style
    • blogging
  • multiverse.plus

    A Website by Kicks Condor & Weiwei Hsu
    multiverse.plus
    Screenshot of multiverse.plus on 2021-08-22 at 12.34.02 PM.png

    An audacious attempt to reshape blogging, to see where it can go next!

    Podcasts and video have really taken over - to the extent that it feels like reading may be falling behind. Can we enhance text and imagery on the Web? Try to give blogging new life?

    • hypermedia
    • socializing
    • whimsy
    • blogging
  • The Internet Is Rotting

    An Essay by Jonathan Zittrain
    www.theatlantic.com

    Too much has been lost already.
    The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
    Links work seamlessly until they don’t.
    And as tangible counterparts to online work fade,
    these gaps represent actual holes in humanity’s knowledge—
    they represent a comprehensive breakdown in the chain of custody for facts.

    1. ​​The web in decay is the web by design​​
    • www
    • hypermedia
    • decay
    • knowledge
  • A little act of hope

    A Fragment by Jeremy Keith
    adactio.com

    As I scroll down my “on this day” page, I come across more and more dead links that have been snapped off from the fabric of the web.

    If I stop and think about it, it can get quite dispiriting. Why bother making hyperlinks at all? It’s only a matter of time until those links break.

    In a sense, every hyperlink on the World Wide Web is little act of hope. Even though I know that when I link to something, it probably won’t last, I still harbour that hope.

    If hyperlinks are built on hope, and the web is made of hyperlinks, then in a way, the World Wide Web is quite literally made out of hope.

    I like that.

    1. ​​And thus the heart will break​​
    • hypermedia
    • hope
  • Open Transclude for Networked Writing

    An Essay by Toby Shorin
    subpixel.space
    1. ​​Not an accumulation of facts​​
    2. ​​More that can be done​​
    3. ​​Open Transclude​​
    1. ​​Designing Synced Blocks​​
    • information
    • writing
    • hypermedia

    Open Transclude is a spec for networked writing on your own blog.

  • Project Xanadu

    An Idea by Ted Nelson

    Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivializes our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents."

    1. ​​Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was​​
    2. ​​Designing Synced Blocks​​
    • hypermedia
    • www
  • Designing Synced Blocks

    An Article by Ryo Lu
    www.notion.so
    Image from www.notion.so on 2021-07-01 at 8.11.12 AM.png

    Theodor H. Nelson, “As We Will Think." Proceedings of Online 72 Conference, Bruanel University, Uxbridge, England, 1972

    What if the exact same information could live and breathe in multiple places? For example, if your company’s process for requesting time off changes, you’d probably have to find all the pages that mention the policy and manually update each of them.

    Synced Blocks changes that. Instead of going through and updating the process to request time off in every page it’s referenced, turning it into a Synced Block allows you to update it once and have those changes reflected everywhere. Even though it’s a simple idea, it opens up many possibilities for how information can be structured and shared.

    1. ​​Transclusion​​
    2. ​​Open Transclude for Networked Writing​​
    3. ​​Project Xanadu​​
    4. ​​The brilliance of notion​​
    • hypermedia
  • Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was

    An Article by Claire L. Evans
    www.are.na
    1. ​​Project Xanadu​​
    • hypermedia
    • www
  • The User Interface of URLs

    A Research Paper
    web.archive.org

    URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) have rapidly become the standard method for specifying how to access information on the Internet. Although mostly used on the World Wide Web, URLs are also becoming more common for specifying locations for other distributed Internet services such as Gopher and anonymous FTP. Internet users see URLs both online and in print, and therefore URLs have visual interfaces. This paper gives an overview of many of the issues that concern the visual and user interfaces of URLs.

    1. ​​Cool URIs don't change​​
    • hypermedia
    • www
    • interfaces
  • Hypertext 2020

    A Website
    www.kickscondor.com
    Screenshot of www.kickscondor.com on 2020-10-30 at 9.38.56 AM.png
    • hypermedia
    • communication
  • Roam Research

    An Application
    roamresearch.com

    A note-taking tool for networked thought.

    1. ​​are.na​​
    • notetaking
    • knowledge
    • hypermedia
    • networks
  • Quotebacks

    A Tool by Tom Critchlow & Toby Shorin
    quotebacks.net

    Quotebacks brings structured discourse to blogs and personal websites.

    Quotebacks makes it easy to reference content and create dialogue with other sites by turning snippets of text into elegant, self-contained blockquote components.

    • hypermedia
    • www
    • blogging

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  2. notetaking
  3. knowledge
  4. networks
  5. blogging
  6. thinking
  7. connection
  8. information
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  10. communication
  11. interfaces
  12. decay
  13. hope
  14. css
  15. socializing
  16. whimsy
  17. typography
  18. style
  19. collections
  20. art
  21. media
  22. culture
  23. progress
  24. society
  25. technology
  26. commonplace
  1. Toby Shorin
  2. Kicks Condor
  3. Jay Hoffmann
  4. Tom Critchlow
  5. Ted Nelson
  6. Charles Broskoski
  7. Claire L. Evans
  8. Ryo Lu
  9. Jonathan Zittrain
  10. Jeremy Keith
  11. Weiwei Hsu
  12. Robin Sloan
  13. Kazuki Nakayashiki
  14. Kei Watanabe
  15. Taylor Hadden
  16. Benedict Evans
  17. Gwern Branwen