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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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    1. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm  🌎cean Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Thread about Roamblogs, prompted by @vgr (thanks to @QiaochuYuan for encouraging me to write it)https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1200101161128185856 …

      Malcolm  🌎cean added,

      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      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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    2. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      I'm experimenting with writing publicly on http://roamresearch.com , and its graph features seem to be solving some core challenges: 1. wanting to be able to reference ideas I haven't written a full post about 2. not wanting to post about something before my post is 💯

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

      ...you can see how those two challenges reinforce each other. Since everything's so intertwingled, this made it really tough to publish anything!https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1047480607226384384 …

      Malcolm  🌎cean added,

      Malcolm  🌎cean @Malcolm_Ocean
      Replying to @_awbery_ @dopaminendreams and 2 others
      Inspired by this exchange I've made myself a new twitter header photo :) #intertwingularity #intertwingled pic.twitter.com/4I8ClECY6Z
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    4. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      (EDIT to thread: Apparently twitter refused to let me publish this storm because I've used the phrase "everything is deeply intertwingled" too many times already. Had to edit the phrasing slightly to stop a vague "Whoops, you already said that" error message)

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    5. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      Malcolm  🌎cean Retweeted Andy Matuschak

      Anyway, with Roam, I can just mention a new idea using a [[page link]], & get a placeholder page for it. Even before adding content to the page, it already displays every place where that word/phrase is used, giving context for learning more about it:https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1190102757430063106 …

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      Andy MatuschakVerified account @andy_matuschak
      Knowledge systems which display contextual backlinks to a node open up an interesting new behavior. You can bootstrap a new node extensionally (rather than intensionally) by simply linking to it from many other nodes—even before it has any content.
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    6. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      I've only done a little bit of this but it's been amazing and I can tell that it's going to make a huge difference to my online writing. I've wanted something like this for years. Here's some thinking from 2 years ago. Ended up making an Airtable and it helped... like 5%.pic.twitter.com/l1Rlwqlhhd

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

      In those notes, you'll notice I talk about Tables of Contents and about http://meaningness.com , which is one of the best examples of a hypertext *book* that I'm aware of. @meaningness made drupal plugins for 🛠️ WIP pages & hover-glossaryhttps://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1199773216169963520 …

      Malcolm  🌎cean added,

      Malcolm  🌎cean @Malcolm_Ocean
      Replying to @vgr @Meaningness
      👆 I also think this. I have some thoughts here in my public roam about roamblogs & roambooks and meaningness is my main go-to example for the latter. Read here: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/tOxCWpVZW … (This is a feature wishlist, not thoughts on what is or could be profoundly possible.) pic.twitter.com/eHJ8cjjssY
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    8. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      But meaningness is a nonlinear book. What's a nonlinear blog? What distinguishes a book from a blog?https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1200488808518705152 …

      Malcolm  🌎cean added,

      Malcolm  🌎cean @Malcolm_Ocean
      What is prose? By "prose" I don't mean "as opposed to poetry", I mean "as opposed to a pile of post-it notes", or "as opposed to your twitter feed" This seems like an important and nuanced question, and I have thoughts on the subject!
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    9. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      I see the essential difference between blog & book as: a book has a finite breadth & depth, that's somewhat known from the beginning, and thus is organized around a ToC, and can be *finished". Also intended to be internally coherent.

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    10. Malcolm  🌎cean‏ @Malcolm_Ocean 29 Nov 2019
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      By contrast, a blog is an ongoing exploration of whatever captures the writer's interest at a given moment (perhaps with a theme). Any table of contents must be mostly retrospective, since the writer doesn't know what comes next. Later posts may contradict earlier ones.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Nov 2019
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      Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean @QiaochuYuan @Meaningness

      I’m starting with an index/glossary 😎

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