garden/dan-whaley.md

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.
  • 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.

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.