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3/ Digg, foxmarks, browser bookmarks, delicious, stumbleupon...there were a dozen others just a few years ago, why did none of it work?
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4/ One part of answer is "insufficiently social, insufficiently addictive in collector sense" which Pinterest appears to have nailed, but..
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5/ But that only gets at information collection that we do for fun, social connection, casual interests, not "work" collection
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6/ For work needs, bookmarking ended up being a WORN technology: write-once-read-never. To get out of the WORN tarpit, you need 3 things
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7/ One, you need a calibrated amount of "social" enough that collected assets gain "interest" through socially filtered augmentation
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9/ Three, you need a way to turn an impersonal stock (public web, organized by search) into a personal flow (private stream, like a slack)
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10/ Most people who process a lot of information use some complex mix of saved files (PDFs), evernote style notebooks, slack, email-to-self
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11/ This scheme is "distributed cognition": the theory that we spread our thinking around in space/time/social-space with right context cues
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13/ ... The loci differ in their WORN characteristics, stream-like liveness, processing affordances etc. Some loci like Twitter are leaky.
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14/ My "squirrel map" of distributed cognition as I call it, has about 8 different storage loci with different processing/social/leak chars
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