Folks seem to be liking this one. It's still growing, but worth sharing while it's young.
maggieappleton.com/metaphors-web
It's an idea I care too much about and this version won't do it justice. But maybe 23 iterations and feedback rounds from now it'll be the piece I want it to be :)
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I'm sure people have said this before, but your personal blog typeface, layout, design is probably the best I've ever seen. So great!
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Really good conversation starter in the article. Somehow feeling that there would be value in mapping how different it is when distributed knowledge is collected together. Documents are often silos of knowledge, lacking references to source destinations.
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In too many workplaces, people do not have time to collaborate and share deep knowledge, much less cooperate across silos.
jarche.com/2019/10/reflec
"At greater levels of abstraction, knowledge work becomes more challenging, increasingly collaborative and social in nature.”
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What happens if you think about time sequence, along with strata?
Linearity /non-linearity of experience is important. Ones experience of the web isn’t static - and we have time sequences and assemblages within those pages - how do we conduct, or bind pages in to relation?
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Time is often invisible on pages, even while content frequently changes over the years. Some kinds of visual indicators of change history could be used to tell the frequency of changes, even when readers don't have access to the details about those changes. Timeline mapping.
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Wow, this is already off to a great start!
Pretty meta to be reading this inside a "digital garden", seems like a pretty great metaphor in and of itself!
I love how you paint the paradigm yourself by mentioning these posts are "planted" and "tended".
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The bookmark metaphor has always been an odd one to me, maybe because I started using it before knowing the english word, or reading this I realise it's a mix between paper and location metaphor system ... also web sites are not books exactly ...
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You might add that web pages can read fingerprints, just like real paper. Anyways, a real nice read. I hope you finish this piece one day.
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Ah that's a good one! Nice example of digitised touch
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Great thought piece on the metaphors of the INTERweb ;-) by Some additional thoughts that came to me were TIME and evolution; and ART (colours, fonts, etc.) Can you think of some other internet metaphors? Looking forward to reading the final essay!
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Oh and LANGUAGE (eg. scripting, java, adobe, etc.)
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