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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@RoamResearch as the first medium for extended-universe building. Kinda like ILM for the kind of CGI-heavy movie-making that eventually gave us the MCU2 replies 1 retweet 21 likesShow this thread -
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.
@RoamResearch 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@gatsby as a presentation layer1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
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Dammit I keep messing that tag up
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