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addressable content blocks are the new something something pity it’s still too hard to make a global address-space and embedding model for them... needs standardization somewhere between ’s open anything-goes content pipes and internal standard
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I’m sticking with WP Gutenberg blocks as my main experiment right now, but they’re a dead end. Can export json but not addressable, embeddable etc. What we need is actually content-centric networking like the old PARC idea. Compute address hash out of content, let it run wild.
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What I’d really like to do is publish my stuff as a pipeline of addressable blocks with permissions and perhaps license fees attached as a repo. Anyone can use as building blocks. Wanna get into the b2b content intermediates market and eventually retreat from content last mile
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People like (custom semweb) and (open transcludes) are rolling their own things a few steps ahead of the commercial product wavefront but I lack both the skills and energy to roll my own ideal infrastructure
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I smell an upcoming deep restructuring of online content game from vertically integrated to horizontal. Twitter did the unbundling stage, but the rebundling stage cannot work without globally addressable content-centric networking at block level.
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To be fair, it *is* here -- distributed across about ten internal demos, all made by volunteers, most of whom have led the project. Source: I worked for Xanadu from 2011 to 2016, & worked on two internal demos that never got a release & one that did.
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I'd recommend a detour into the Darwin Information Type Architecture (DITA) format. I used IBM's experience with it as my starting block building a component-based CMS inside of Red Hat and it was insightful. Lots of great info science under the... disappointing implementations.