Riffing on how 's elder blogging might take shape.
Trend: linear spaces --> free form spaces
E.g. Powerpoint -> Figma
Google Docs -> Roam
Workflowy -> Mindmaps (e.g. Simplemind)
Blog posts -> Blogchains is kind of an attempt at this more "open" and "branching" narrative.
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At the same time - network topology has changed.
From one of aggregated "homepage hits" (e.g. Slashdot, Hacker News, Reddit) to one of streams and feeds of community interaction (i.e. Twitter)
In 2019 basically you put a timestamp on something and... well, Ok Boomer.
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Feeds of communities evolve, get messy, self reference and importantly are revisited and re-formulated on the fly. Timestamps are an outdated attempt to impose order on a natural chaos.
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So. What might 's elderblogging turn into? My theory is:
1) A lightweight regular email (as a push-mechanism and heartbeat of aliveness) that surfaces threads, ideas and moments-in-time from the chaos
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2) A free form space (or set of spaces) that are alive, without time-stamp and look more like Figma, Roam, Mindmap than blogpost. Ready for a post-writing, post-publish world.
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Some things this enables:
- A more vibrant community and interaction model (a speed up of the community feed)
- A shift from making sense to community making their own sense of raw materials
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Something I haven't yet sorted out is the effect of the tech. WordPress is aging and clearly on its way out. Static page builders like gatsby aren't there yet. Other media like Roam etc. work for more domestic cozy directions but not for more public directions. So... constraints
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Definitely - I feel like there's a more alive tech just around the corner that allows for a more performative stance (e.g. figma, roam, etc).
Something fluid and open-space that you can still "publish" to.
The wiki is the prototype here but.... wikis suck.

