Is digital garden a creation/curation style, design pattern, or an arcgitecture that fits some platforms better than others? Thoughts etc?
I covered static sites in my text renaissance post but not digital gardens since I don’t yet have a sense of it
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I asked about good examples of static sites in this tweet... would the responses have been very different if I’d asked for digital gardens? The overlap seems low. Static sites don’t seem like a particularly good fit for digital gardening.
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I think digital gardens are interesting right now specifically because of the warren-ization of social media. Small communities want hubs for knowledge production. E.g. yak collective roam
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And- in theory static sites are terrible technology for this *except* they tend to be blazing fast which is good for exploring and browsing through lots of pages
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Digital garden architectures are perfect for projects like Ribbon Farm. "There’s no real beginning or ending, it’s an infinite middle." as says.
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1/ I've been thinking of it very much as a pattern language centred around the core ethos of non-chronoloigcal WIP microposts.
Layered with a pick n' mix set of common design patterns;
Wikis
Unsorted piles
Exploratory node graph
Internal Bi-directional links
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I think of it as a philosophy/aesthetic rather than a specific manifestation. A blog can be a kind of garden if you want it to be. Though I guess tools like Roam encourage/enable it more than others
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