I'm no longer a blogger. I've been upgraded to hyperwriter by the authorial elevation events of 2020 like blogchaining and threadapaloozaing.
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Hyperwriters don't write individual works. They write extended universes.
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Also as the first medium for extended-universe building. Kinda like ILM for the kind of CGI-heavy movie-making that eventually gave us the MCU
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I want to be like kevin feige tbh... don't want to actually write 80% of the things I'm stubbing out these days that belong in the ribbonfarm blogomatic universe, but I wish I had a bunch of people with enough shared headspace to flesh those stubs out
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I have a lot of readers who seem to have the required level of mastery as *readers* (some more than me actually), but I'm not sure any of them want to help write more of it
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I think, assuming I can find people who are interested, the challenge would be laying out a map of the existing content that's suitable for gaining *writerly* situation awareness, which is not the same as readerly. I'd have to make a lot of the underground infrastructure visible
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In hindsight, I think I instigated threadapalooza to scratch a subconscious itch to sort of lab-test the mechanics of coordinating a lot of people writing about stuff in a loosely shared extended-universe type context
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When future archivists get to the age of hyperwriting they'll see a dark age, since all of what we create gets locked onto private corporate servers that will eventually be shut down.
I really want to see open standards come back for this stuff and a culture of owning our work.
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Not too concerned. Data portability is now a default cost of doing business in a post-gdpr world. already has limited export capabilities and I’m sure they’ll be beefed up. I’d love to see an output pipeline to something like as a presentation layer
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The authorial skill is there. It just needs to be organized. This requires good software (which Twitter is not, but Wave was, and Roam might be). It also requires the establishment of good governing principles or exquisitely balanced mechanism for homeostasis-chaos tradeoff.
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Super fascinating way you did it. If you wanna chat about how to do it on a bigger scale, I’d be interested.
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