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+# Dan Whaley
+
+ -  Drove from California to Argentina. 2003.
+ -  canaryinacoalmine.org. One year!
+
+ # Questions
+- Journey to understand the broad frame.
+  - There is a movement in humanity towards networked thinking.
+  - The book -> the telephone -> the web.
+  - What's next? There's another step coming. The beginning of truly coordinated semantic thinking.
+  - Dan believes that the note taking paradigm with wiki links is a key part of this journey but it needs an ingredient.
+    - Standards.
+    - Open coordination.
+    - Federation.
+  - Annotation is the *edge*. An event horizon.
+    - The ability to coordinate between clients that live at the edge is key.
+    - Does not yet have the power of the wiki link.
+  - Notion/Roam are not yet unlocking the full human potential.
+    - Dan is on a journey to find what are the essential components.
+  - Open questions: groups, groups permissions.
+  - Hypothesis gets tweeted at by people who are using their tools in new ways.
+ - John Gilmore.
+   - Local cyberpunk guy, founder of Sun Microsystems.
+   - Lots of different annotation services; how do you know which annotation services have annotations with a page?
+   - Similar problem to go link authorities.
+   - DHT.
+ - Del.ic.ious. 
+
+# Backlinks
+ - Some people think that the fact that backlinks were absent in the original web was part of what let it grow.
+
+ # Risks
+  - What if in the future you can't just run a server in your closet?
+  - W3C
+    - Hypothes.is is part of it
+    - Tim Berners Lee holds it together. If he goes, the W3C might go.
+    - Community group -> working group
+    - Ivan Herman
+      - Senior staff at W3C
+    - Community group is outside the W3C, but blessed. Build a community, clear plan. Then you're invited to a working group.
+  - Browser vendors consortium (name?)
+    - Conveniently outside the W3C.
+
+# Todo
+    - Annotation standard: read it
+      - Data model
+        - JSON/RDF: elements that needs to make up an annotation
+      - Protocol
+        - Rest
+      - Vocabulary
+        - What are the concepts in this space.
+
+
+# One idea
+ - A discrete component.
+ - Glorified markdown editors.
+ - Hypothes.is -> readwise -> Roam
+    -  Hypothes.is as a SGK client
+    -  Standards compliant wiki service
+
+ # Social Networks
+ - Dan agrees that most of the activity is socially beneficial.
+ - People still think of these networks as being apart from themselves. But the network is the organism.
+
+# Roam
+ - What
+
+# Topics
+ - Tagging.
+   - Everything2.com.
+ - Open source versions of projects.
+   - Athens.
+   - Truly networked paradigm?
+ - Loose coupling / loose integration.
+ - My view: personal gardens are what get a critical mass. It needs to be independent.