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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Nov 2019
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    How would you reimagine blogs around graph databases as the foundation? (Roam, Notion, Gatsby all seem to have blog like functionality in their sights but it feels like a stepchild use case relative to their core use cases of notes, wikis, collaboration, static pages)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1200097087746011136 …

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    Is there some sort of information architecture renaissance going on around graph databases? 7y ago when I did a Big Data gig they seemed to be just one among many paradigm challenges to relational databases. Now I hear about them all over the place. What changed?
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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Nov 2019
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        I guess the question to ask is, what is the most natural graph underlying a blog. I think it is the graph of internal references. Here’s the ribbonfarm graph.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/03/18/elderblog-sutra-5/ …

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Nov 2019
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        The key tension in a blog is between the irreversibility of the log stream in time and the evolving internal reference structure. There is a natural asymmetry as old posts don’t get updated to point to future posts that reference them.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Nov 2019
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        I think codebase evolution on git has a similar natural structure. The “diff” maps to the “post” and “parent version” to “backlink” Maybe pull request = comment?

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      5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Nov 2019
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        The blogchain concept is something like an attempt to jury-rig an explicit graph structure as @tomcritchlow pointed out yesterday, but still with temporality as strictly dominant organizing principle. The basic DAG must be an approximate partial temporal order. Cycles are add-ons

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      2. Conor White-Sullivan‏ @Conaw 30 Nov 2019
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        Replying to @vgr

        FWIW Roam is built on a graph database. Not just block and page structure. Theres a whole engine for user defined attributes and queries we've barely exposed yet.

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      3. Jeremy Dunck‏ @jdunck 30 Nov 2019
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        A perspective of a graph appears as a blog. Things look linear because text is linear, but each line is a link, each link a constellation.

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      1. Visakan Veerasamy‏ @visakanv 29 Nov 2019
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        Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted Visakan Veerasamy

        Basically my twitter thread webs, but editable, and without character limits. (Or 1000chars or something.) A bunch of long threads would get condensed into shorter ones https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1071803092331520001?s=21 …https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1071803092331520001 …

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        Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv
        feeling quite morose that I can't splay out all 58,400 of my tweets onto a giant 360 degree superdome, with all the threads visualized, and then wave my hands around Minority Report style to delete the clutter and rearchitect the best into a megaweb of megathreads
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      2. QC‏ @QiaochuYuan 28 Nov 2019
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        imagine @Malcolm_Ocean has thoughts

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      3. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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        Malcolm  🌎cean Retweeted Malcolm  🌎cean

        Your imagination is well-calibrated 😀https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1200607647579262977 …

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        Malcolm  🌎cean @Malcolm_Ocean
        Thread about Roamblogs, prompted by @vgr (thanks to @QiaochuYuan for encouraging me to write it) https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1200101161128185856 …
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      2. MariusAgricola‏ @mariusagricola 28 Nov 2019
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        Something like Named Entity Recognition plus semantics to allow better understanding of content than tagging/folksonomies provide, especially in terms of discovery of external relationships without additional work.

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      3. MariusAgricola‏ @mariusagricola 28 Nov 2019
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        Replying to @mariusagricola @vgr

        @doriantaylor has some additional insight on this, if I am reading him correctly.

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