Robot Wisdom auxiliary

clay shirky has
educed a simulacrum
of boingboingist groupthink

by soliciting 'novel' futurist predictions
(150 so far, horribly nonnovel)

none of which connect The Singularity
with human wisdom
(at best hoping it will be left by
googleSanta
in our xmas stockings)

but robot wisdom
for the semantic web
will require slow painstaking
literate esthetic
disentangling
of the motives that roil our hearts

and confronting the Cons
that enslave us

 
 
 
 
 
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[画像:I think we've just been cussed out in the universal language of mathematics]

most science fiction
punts the hard questions of AI
by assuming that robots achieve
consciousness
in one fell swoop
without intermediate stages

but the premise of 'robot wisdom'
is that the intermediate steps
must progress from mathematics
thru literature
to psychology

along which path
we'll achieve
universal human/scientific wisdom

not least the ability
to cuss in math

 
 
 
 
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why don't all browsers share
a common core set of
smart
folders for bookmarks
mapping onto the universals of human life
via a startup questionnaire
about where and how you live

eg: each gizmo you own
mapping onto a smart folder
offering the best sites for support
localised for local service
any online communities for that gizmo
easily customised to your preferences
with a social feed (?)
that discovers new resources as they arise

a folder for each of your vehicles

for each of your pets
your hobbies
your clubs
your periodical subscriptions

for your music bookmarks
your photo/image bookmarks

is there a site yet
collecting universal rules
for every sort of simulation game?

eg fighting rules
like 'guard your vulnerable regions'

with annotations about which games
implement those rules well/badly/not-at-all

reagan's victory in 1980
was a cold awakening for us hippies
the progressive dream drowned

and ever since we've been pedaling in sand
in tar
no traction

i see one hope

the solidity of science

social science without academic bs

an a.i. simulation of the Con

world history rewritten

in the broader context of psychological evolution

the etymogeny of meaning

the mysterious depths of sexuality

wakefulness intimidation ego and sleep

 
 
 
 
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bookmarks
are the primary currency/coinage of the Web

so if we want to
nail the bookmark entitytype
into its usual-story-historical framework
for semanticweb purposes

we need to sketch
the usual url-bookmark story

the creator substory:
content conceived
content created
content posted
url shared

the consumer substory:
surfer has motivation
surfer has methodology
methodology ranks url-sources
surfer offered url by url-source
surfer notes offer mentally
surfer notes offer physically ('to-read' list)
surfer visits url
surfer partially consumes content
surfer rejects content, erases notes
surfer extends notes for later
surfer wholly consumes content
surfer passes-on url with comments
surfer acknowledges url-source(s)

the derivative-work substory:
surfer conceives related new content
surfer acknowledges url's influence

the historian substory:
broader path of url traced/reconstructed
traced-path posted




of course
there are almost infinite variations
on this skeleton

but a true semantic Web
will only become possible
when every stage
of every bookmark's history
can be tagged with its appropriate
story-context




Real post date: 15 Oct 11:20am
(Blogger no longer lets me
finesse my linkblog to the top
via postdating
so my nonlinkblog posts
will now be 'pre'dated)

The universe is made of stories,
not of atoms.
--Muriel Rukeyser [cite]

the internet is swollen
with lists, sorted
alphabetically
by date
by popularity

but the deepest sorting
is (almost) nowhere to be seen

the story sort

personplacething
each particular individual
has an individual history
of creation
of relationships
of eventual dissolution

and every abstract type
of personsplacesthings
has an abstract, 'usual' story

a branching monomyth
of classes of creation
sequences of relationships
classes of dissolution

so when the semantic web
tries to nail down any entity

it's doomed to failure
until that 'nail' can be hammered
into a freestanding framework
of that entity-type's usual storyhistory

 
 
 
 
 
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[draft]

i'm preparing to do some experiments
in google's new app engine

the 1st very simple: the 'portaliser'
(portaliZer was taken)
will massage a set of favorite links
into a simple page-layout

but the 2nd is much more ambitious
trying to add time-sequencing
to IMDb movie keywords/tags

eg 'Zoolander'

IMDb: main, summary

keywords/tags: Secret Agent, 2000s, Catch Phrase, Multiple Cameos, Spy, Spy Spoof, Frat Pack, Car Chase, Assassination, Brainwashing, Cameo Appearance, Conspiracy, Fame, Fashion Model, Fashion Show, Fashion, Orgy, Stupidity, Exploding Gas Station, Exploitation, Obesity, Sequel, Vanity, Saturday Night Live, Dwarf, Dwarves, Based On Sketch Comedy, Child Labor, Blackface, Bulimia, Catwalk, Erection, Femme Fatale, Malaysia, Masseuse, Reporter, Time Magazine, Directed By Star, Break Dance, Male Model, Character Name In Title


IMDb ontology experiment: [2005] (Modalities, Dramatic themes, Family themes, Sports, Animals, Music and comedy, Historical period, Crime-related, War-related, Horror and scifi, Sex, Animation)

not just
in
every grain of sand

but in every field
of every database

(even the simplest:

name address age gender title
etc)

we
must
see
the whole potential universe

ie
all those simple fieldobjects'
real-or-potential
relationships
with all other fields/objects

naturally ordered
most-important first (a

literary

criterion
you must then
(now) begin
to spend the whole rest
of your life
studying)

as if
every field has an extra
asterisk p.s.

where anomalies are noted

(how certain is the value?
why or why not?
when and why did it last change?
etc)

 
 
 
 
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what can xml do with
For sale: baby shoes, never worn?

start with a short-story microformat
on top of a want-ad microformat

the 'characters' in the story
being the parents who placed the ad
and the lost baby
(and the newspaper that took the ad
and the readers the parents hope to reach)

the want-ad microformat
entirely ignoring the critical facts
(the baby
and how it was lost)

mode: selling
topic: thing-clothes-shoes
size: baby
condition: 9
price: unknown



we'd like the story microformat
to include a field for 'theme'
but the only
(ignored)
possible approach
is something like my solace

eg: solace/losing#baby

so we need experts in
art philosophy religion
politics economics history
fiction poetry humor
psychology philology anthropology sociobiology
criticism design logic math

to compile comparable storycycles
on all their areas of expertise...

 
 
 
 
 
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the semantic web movement is 8 years old
and has delivered little more than
a microformat for business cards [Wiki]

and nothing to rank with
roget or lenat

so i'd like to propose
using del.icio.us for prototyping
much more ambitious
microformat-like linksets

starting eg with
prototype person-profiles
[Jorn Barger]

replacing pagetitles with microformat fieldnames

using Wikipedia placeholders
if the fieldvalue isn't already a url

using del.icio.us tags
to sort fieldtypes



other possible prototypes:
website-profile microformat
webpage-profile microformat
blog-profile microformat
video-profile microformat
song-profile microformat
porno-profile microformat

(each of these should be
summarizable
via heraldic barcodes)

metasynthesis (4)

polti (12)

semanticweb (20k) semweb (7k) semantic_web (3000)

web20 (24k) web30 (7k) web_2.0 (6000) web2.0 (5000) web2 (4000) web3.0 (3000) web3 (500)
web2theory (35)

folksonomy (14k) ontology (11k) taxonomy (8k) folksonomies (3k) ontologies (2k) taxonomies (1k)

simulation (17k) sims (5k) sims2 (4k) simulations (2k) thesims (400) simstheory (0)

tags (33k) tagging (31k) tag (4000) metatags (750) metatag (400) tagtheory (1)

del.icio.us (40k) delicious (24k)

twocultures (50) 2cultures (2)

metadata (21k) meta* (18k) about (9k) meta (5000)

microformats (7k) microformat (2k)

patterns (48k) patternlanguage (200) patternlanguages (50) patterntheory (11)

informationarchitecture (4k) informationscience (900) informationtheory (750) infosci (500) infoscience (200) infotheory (150)

thesaurus (3k) thesauri (900) thesauruses (22)

conjecture (200) conjectures (20)

suggestions (1.6k) suggestion (1.4k)

anomaly (1k) anomalies (300)

cute (29k)
rant (6k)
brilliant (4k)
creepy (3.6k)
heh (3k)
lame (1.8k)
snark (1.6k)
snarky (500)
doh (500)
classy (400)
dorky (300)
tempting (20)
dontmiss (20)

document* (19k) documents (11k)
bestpractices (8k)
data (78k)
file* (27k) files (16k)
archive* (61k) archives (18k)
toread (370k)
database* (117k) databases (18k)
post* (30k) posts (7k)
message* (7.6k) messages (2.6k)
etext* (2.4k) etexts (1.2k)
ebooks (45k) ebook* (35k)
posting* (2.6k) postings (630)
thread* (7.5k) threads (6400)
conversation (5k) conversations (1.5k)
story* (31k) stories (26k)
biography (12k) biographies (2k)
books (354k) book* (183k)
email* (101k) emails (2k)
comments (17k) comment (13k)
feedback (5k)
dialog* (1.8k) dialogs (250)
discussion* (21k) discussions (1.9k)
debate* (11k) debates (1k)
poem* (8k) poems (7k)
lyrics (32k) lyric* (2k)
songlyrics (115) songlyric* (2)
songs (18k) song* (16k)
shortstory (1284) shortstories (1k)
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()
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()


tag bundlers: galfridus glass

smartipants: timbray

this del.icio.us design experiment
is first of all intended as
an efficient ontology for
IMDb movie keywords

(a taxicab is a car is a vehicle is a prop)

substituting the theatrical
role-set-prop
for person-place-thing

and secondarily
a unification of all comparable ontologies
(roget polti adler barger lenat yahoo/dmoz)
and tagged web2.0 content

on the hypothesis that
movies (can) encompass all

the ontology defined
pragmatically (bottom up)
not philosophically (top down)
eg maybe:

props: vehicle weapon gizmo treasure clothing message container

sets: interior exterior road land sea weather

roles: girl kid buddy rival creature criminal cop stranger group maker mentor healer

prop:gizmo: phone camera clock weapon musicalinstrument

prop:message: letter sign file contract book magazine newspaper artwork

set:interior: store office bank theater club restaurant jail

(these 'literary' categories
being more artfi not scifi
seem to make nerds uncomfortable
but the semantic web movement
will just be spinning its wheels
until they're addressed)

 
 
 
 
 
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[thoughtmesh edition w/extra links]

my whole life since
maybe 1969
i've been struggling to write
a single book

with an evershifting shape but always
a psychology text
that at least sketches an outline
of human motivation
viewed thru a literary lens

like 'the sims XVI'
in textbook form

like solace perhaps
a composition of extracts
of nuances

like brainfeathers or finnegans wake
everyman's everyhistory

like laws of form or antimath
built up elegantly
from a single bit

like a pattern language for literary patterns

like polti or roget
a classification of plots
of story skeletons

like knuth a catalog
of data structures and algorithms

like cyc
a knowledgebase of common sense

like adler's syntopicon
an inventory of philosophies
wisdom marked up for robots
like the semantic web

a hierarchy of metadata
most urgent first

a constitution
for some possible utopia

and now centered on
colored lines in spacetime

x normally longitude-space
y simply ordinary time

with one line per
true human lifestory

and now with a suggested
simple first coloring

white for happy familymembers
all alike

blue for sad
red for bad

yellow for sickly
or better
for enslaved?

 
 
 
 
 
 
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[pre-amble]

say
parallel processing : arts
::
serial processing : sciences

science blindly following
a narrow incremental logical/verbal path

while art makes grand intuitive leaps
on the basis of
rich broad spatial imaginings

even the poet's words
individually reset
into the space of sounds

the novelist's
into the space of everyday life



[amble]

for the semantic web to work
someone (or some group)
has to come up with a
finite controlled vocabulary that captures
a significant portion of the
important meanings
on the web

and their intent
for microformats
is to break that task down
into manageable subtasks
by attacking
one domain of meaning
at a time

but they're having to confront
the paradox that every domain
is unruly
with a shifting core
of most-important themes
and an infinitely attenuating halo
of subordinate variations

that quickly nudge microformats
towards 'macro' territory

for which pathology i'll propose
an antidote in the form
of heraldic barcodes
that graphically/visually
symbolically/iconically
intuitively/flexibly
summarise a domain

using three principal layers:
- a narrow frame of varying thickness and color
- a background pattern
- a foreground icon

and for my
test/example/domain
i'll choose (ambitiously)

webpagetypes

with heraldicbarcode backgroundpatterns
that symbolically schematise
the distribution of info on the page

simple text as a block of grey
(embedded media colored by filetype)

a heterogeneous list
as a stack of colored bars
(narrow topical range =
narrow spectrum of colors)

uniform list-granularity =
uniform bar-size

ordering principles for lists
(alphabetical newest-1st best-1st
rhetorical didactic ontological)
indicated somehow



one edgerow of icon pixels
could be a logarithmic timeline/changelog
1st pixel = 1992-2000 (8yrs)
(black until the page's creation)
2nd = 2000-2004, 3rd = 2004-2005, 4th 2006
5th 6mos 6th 3mos 7th 45days 8th 20days
9th 10 10th 5 11th 2 12th 1

major/minor content changes
(or even changes of url)
differentiated by color

other edgerows possibly capturing
pageweight, % cruft
topical breadth, completeness, necessity

and finally a foreground icon
shaped to represent the primary
(range of) topic(s):
tech news, celeb gossip, etc
(with colorfill representing... what?)



[microformat]

and if some of this
proves less valuable
than other missing dimensions

one should
feel
this
in the belly
and tweaks should almost suggest themselves

formfields:

page-age
page-weight
% cruft
topical scope
completeness
necessity
revision-frequency
revision-intensity
revision-patterns
% original text
% copied/quoted text
% new images/audio/video/code
% copied ditto
# custom links
# link sources
granularity
ordering

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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we can posit a series
of levels of significance
for database synching

least significant would be synching
the values of attributes
for particular instances

(each instance gets
a record or a row
each attribute
a field or a column)

then slightly more significant
the addition or subtraction
of whole row-record-instances

then adding or editing
attribute-field-columns
that apply to all record-row-instances

and finally
whole new database/speadsheet/tables
with new systems of attribute-field-columns
appropriate to a whole new
object type

and in object-oriented systems
these objects are associated too
with methods

but more generally we might rename
'methods' as 'story skeletons'

each object type participating
in a usual range of stories

object-creation stories
object-change stories
object-spawning-new-objects stories
object-destruction stories

and a whole universe of
object-relationships-to-other-object-types stories
most conveniently sorted
into a local copy of the object hierarchy
(ie a fractal thicket)

 
 
 
 
 
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two rhetoric books i'm finding useful:

"a theory of discourse" (kinneavy 1971)
"patterns for a purpose" (clouse 2003)

the latter proposes eight basic essay-patterns
(and i'm now substituting
spreadsheets for
yesterday's databases
so we can 'synch'
rules/formulae too)

1. description (database dump without chrnological sorting)
   
2. narration (ditto with chronological sorting)
   
3. exemplification (generalised rule/formula with descriptive or narrative examples)
   
4. process analysis (synching rules/formulae for future applications)
   
5. comparison-contrast (explicitly synching two spreadsheet regions)
   
6. cause-and-effect analysis (synching rules/formulae for past applications)
   
7. classification and division (synching the vocabulary for descriptions of ranges)
   
8. definition (synching a single vocabulary concept)
   

kinneavy tries to survey
rhetorical patterns at every level

some micropatterns (cf recent post Discourse as lists):

(short, long) eg synopsis/abstract followed by fleshed-out presentation

(long, short) eg summary at end

(parts, whole) eg (A, B, +, A+B)

(whole, parts) usually short-whole followed by longer-parts

(not-A, B) standard debate micropattern

(A, not-A) fair and balanced

(zoom-out, zoom-in) eg panorama with gradual increase in detail

(zoom-in, zoom-out) novels usually grab you via a closeup they only gradually contextualise

(hook, line) general attention-grabbing

(light, heavy) lead with a joke

(aux, main, aux) eg webpages where bodytext is surrounded by html-junk

(metadata, data) incl eg (date, title, byline)

(abstract, concrete) or (general, particular)

(old, new) cf (not-A, B)

(A?B) exploring uncertain relationship

(claim, proof)

(try, try, succeed)

 
 
 
 
 
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oldfashioned
database report generators
could easily turn each database record
into a lump of lo-tech prose

[marge simpson] is [married] with [three] children,
lives in [springfield]
and has [blue] hair.

by the ai complementarity principle
an equally lo-tech
natural-language-comprehension program
could turn this prose
back into database-ese

and some unknown percentage
of real natural language in the wild
must be no more complicated than this
if we could just exhaustively compile
the necessary hidden databases

but of course
much more often
than full database dumps
we feed each other
synchronisation updates

what important recent changes
might the other
not yet have registered

and the whole discipline of rhetoric
might just be footnotes
on how this synchronisation can be achieved

 
 
 
 
 
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I often complain to interviewers that 'weblog' is the least interesting of my many neologisms. Here's a sampling of others:

1. meta-expressive (1974) = inauthentic, expressing an image rather than a reality
   
   
2. noofog (1974) the stupefying side of the noosphere-- pressure to conform making us blind (cf negative intelligence, below)
   
   
3. ron riddles (1975-friv) riddles where the answer is a portmanteau of two phrases eg 'TS Eliot Ness' (Who wrote 'Sweeney among the Untouchables'?) or 'The arm and hammer throw' (What's the intensest sport at the leper olympics?)
   
   
4. priorating (no date) rating by priority
   
   
6. [Greek letter phi], [Greek letter psi] (no date) philosophy, psychology (abbreviations)
   
   
7. junk-food vegetarian (1977?) no meat in soda or potato chips
   
   
8. filters, speeds, and scales (1978) three exercises for deepening understanding of any given phenomenon-- picture the world as pitch black except where the phenomenon supplies a bit of colored light (this directly led to the tree-of-life/worldtree visualisation); picture the phenomenon at microscopic scale, at macroscopic scale, slowed down and speeded up
   
   
9. literary indications (1978) images from novels or other literature that capture some nuance of human behavior, i used to save these on index cards that i then sorted and re-sorted
   
   
10. cybernetic psychology, robot wisdom (1979) a scientific methodology that builds from literary indications (qv) to computer simulations of realistic human behavior
    
    
11. appublication (1979) making public
    
    
13. pyschology, spychology (1979-friv) bad psychology, good psychology
    
    
14. antimath (1979) a simple notation system for story-skeletons, based on comic strip conventions [more]
    
    
15. cx. (no date) contrast (cf 'cf')
    
    
16. lifelines (1984?) a cross between antimath and feynman diagrams, evolved into worldtree model [more]
    
    
17. friv (1985) frivolous
    
    
18. romantic psychology (1988) narrowly, the scientific study of romantic love; broadly, the complement of cognitive psychology [Solace]
    
    
19. storycycle (1988?) compilation of literary indications into a (usually) cyclical monomyth [more]
    
    
20. fractal-thicket indexing, semantic topology (1991) a generalisation of antimath that builds complex content by repeatedly creating 'cross-products' of any simple hierarchy with itself [more]
    
    
21. usual stories (1992) a way to defuse AI's 'frame problem' by considering any content-node to imply the full usual storycycle of that content-item [more]
    
    
22. task-savvy applications (1993) applications with enough a.i. to guess what you're trying to do [more]
    
    
23. confabulating arranger (1994) a model for interactive fiction in which the past is created backwards [more]
    
    
24. alt.music.alternative.female (1994) newsgroup [newgroup]
    
    
25. misery pizza, misery burritos, etc (1994?) ersatz entrees using lowest-possible-cost ingredients: white bread, ketchup, american cheese food, pork'n'beans, etc
    
    
26. the responsible party (1995) semifictitious 'conservative left' political party
    
    
27. naive witness (1995) heuristic visualisation of unprejudiced guy-in-the-street [more]
    
    
28. chase-down design (1995) writing webpages so they start by cutting-to-the-chase [more]
    
    
29. parent test (1995) judging political candidates (etc) by whether you'd want them as parents [more]
    
    
30. static a.i. (1995) knowledge representation [more]
    
    
31. skeptical correctness (1995) jumping to conclusions based on 'scientific' prejudices [cite]
    
    
32. self-knowledge horizon (1995) what alan watts called 'the taboo on knowing who we are' [more]
    
    
33. AI complementarity principle (1995) the idea that an expert system capable of understanding a domain should equally be able to generate a simulation (or a vision sytem to generate an image) [more]
    
    
34. pork'n'beans vegetarian (1995?) it's not enough pork to bother paying double for the vegetarian beans
    
    
35. w3* (1996) trick for distinguishing search keywords from ordinary words [more]
    
    
36. full-disclosure capitalism (1996) capitalism might not be so bad if businesses were fully transparent [more]
    
    
37. negative intelligence (1996) internet phenomenon where bad ideas drive out good [more]
    
    
38. philosophy lab (1996) the idea that philosophical ideas could theoretically be tested in an advanced computer simulation of human behavior [more]
    
    
39. propanoia (1996-friv) the unfounded fear that a Usenet newsgroup's messages don't propagate to your site [cite]
    
    
40. pride cycle (1997) the storycycle/monomyth behind Finnegans Wake-- hero sins, falls, rises via conformity or experiment [passim]
    
    
41. hypertext lab (1997) the notion that web-design theorists ought to use their sites to experiment with new design ideas [more]
    
    
42. elvis index (1997) search-engine popularity ranking normalised to standard term 'elvis' [more]
    
    
43. weblog (1997) a log of interesting web readings in reverse chronological order
    
    
44. ?* (1997?) uncertain. eg '?x' is short for 'x (?)' (after Herring)
    
    
46. gotcha-links (1998?) web links that without warning entrap you in (eg) slow-launching helper apps like Acrobat [more] a special case that throws you out of your surf history is the ejection seat
    
    
56. e-communication, e-video, e-audio, s-text, h-text, h-audio, h-video, p-text, p-video, p-audio (1998) electronic/spoken/handwritten/printed communication/audio/video/text [more]
    
    
57. new game (1998) an approach to finnegans wake via close reading of manuscripts in the order they were written [more]
    
    
58. liquid page (1998) later and more widely called 'liquid html' [more]
    
    
59. xhtml (1998) my original proposal was better than what They ended up with [more]
    
    
60. project-proposers anonymous (1998) 12-step group for people who have better ideas than follow-thru [more]
    
    
61. nuppies (1999?) compulsive one-uppers [cite]
    
    
62. iq infinity (1999?) heuristic for studying joyce-- that he knew everything
    
    
63. en-passant linking (1999) web links that can only be detected by (eg) blue underlined text [more]
    
    
64. one-layer web design (1999) making portals that flatten out all web resources so they're a single click away, by linking every useful subpage of a site, not just the main page [more]
    
    
65. resource pages (1999) sifting thru all web resources on a given topic and linking all the best ones in an organised way (search engines should someday do this automatically) [more]
    
    
66. mournography (1999) orgies of exploitative sentimentality after tragedies [cite]
    
    
67. first-cut parser (1999) document-parser that finds a likeliest interpretation for each segment of a text [more]
    
    
68. stripped-grapes web-design (2000?) tables of contents (etc) that link to subpages with no description but the page-title [more]
    
    
69. url-hacking (2000) studying the structure of complex urls so you can customise them [more]
    
    
70. content-centered web design (2000) web-design that foregrounds the content rather than the design (eg avoiding sidebars and other distractions) [more]
    
    
71. text buttons (2000) a design philosophy that tries to minimise hard-to-read blue underlined linktext by isolating the link at the end of text, with a single word description, usually of its document type [more]
    
    
72. hyperbolic linking (2000) topically closer pages should have more links on a given page [more]
    
    
73. phat (2000) high-bandwidth (of webpages)
    
    
74. information density (2001) eg 'faqs' are high density [more]
    
    
75. text-blocks and separators (2001) alternative to uptight 'hierarchies of containers' model of text [more]
    
    
76. minoan illuminati (2001) mostly tongue-in-cheek reconstruction of Bronze Age Crete, emphasizing their remarkable disdain for giant ego-monuments [more]
    
    
77. jumpbar (2001) a row of offsite links at the top of a blog (or any page) so you can quickly jump elsewhere if there's nothing new there [more]
    
    
78. mindwrestling (2001) ESP-based power-struggles [more]
    
    
79. content stubs (2001) interface elements that can be expanded to reveal more content/choices (eg menus) [more]
    
    
80. contemplation-factor (2001) how many calories does it take to contemplate something [more]
    
    
81. html-junk (2002) webpage cruft [post]
    
    
82. ToC-footers (2002) putting site-links at end of (one-column) document [more] rediscovered 2007 [blog]
    
    
83. the Necessary Web (2002) just the faqs, sort of [more] [more]
    
    
84. W3C secession (2002) top-down amateur a.i. has got us on the wrong track entirely, time to start over [more]
    
    
85. the pragmatic web (2002) semantic web optimised for relevant content [more]
    
    
86. action hypertext (2002) web-authoring tools should accommodate dynamically evolving pages [more]
    
    
87. the Joyce police (2002) cruising joyce-sites for errors and issuing citations [more]
    
    
88. EWRs (2003) epiphanies-while-reading [less]
    
    
89. etymogeny (2003) a way of sorting words/concepts according to when the nervous system became capable of dealing with them [more]
    
    
90. page memory (2003) the universal ability to recall where on the two-page spread an interesting bit occured [thread]
    
    
91. v* (2003) very (eg vshort, varcane, vfriv)
    
    
94. Philosophy Markup Language, History-of-Science Markup Language, Rhetorical Markup Language (2003) what they sound like [more]
    
    
95. goldfarb's conjecture (2003) the illusion that text styling should be associated with semantic markup [more]
    
    
96. grand metasynthesis (2004) aka The Singularity, but with an eye to the sorts of problems that will actually have to be solved along the way [more]
    
    
97. crystal tags (2005) hypothetical elaboration of nntp (network news transfer protocol, ie usenet/netnews/newsgroups/DejaNews/GoogleGroups) to replace email, blogs, and newsfeeds [more]
    
    
98. view-scaling (2005) optimally fitting the view of any object to the allocated space [more]
    
    
99. hoaxtop (2005) negroponte's olpc (a cellphone designed by the proverbial committee) [more]
    
    
100. Gg* (2005) Google (eg GgW = GoogleWeb, GgI = GgImages, GgN = GgNews, etc)
     
     
101. I'm-an-idiot day (2005) confess a weakness on the 13th of every month? [more]
     
     
102. weather giant (2006) visualisation of height of weather-phenomena via imaginary giant [more]
     
     
103. zipless blogging (2006) effortless blogging, interface-wise [more]
     
     
104. yahoo zodiac (2006) a more-or-less disciplined theoretical visualisation of a web ontology [more]
     
     
105. radial ontology (2006) any visualisation of an ontology that puts the root (of the 'tree') at the center [more]
     
     
106. heraldic barcodes (2006) schematic icons that encapsulate a lot of metadata for easy human scanning [more]
     
     
107. OS avatar (2006) inevitable interface feature where your OS tracks your current state [more]
     
     
108. self-conscious computing (2006) building debuggers' TRACE function into hard- and software at deepest level [more]
     
     
109. radio goggles (2006) visualisation experiment intended to explore why radio reception is so unpredictable [more]
     
     
110. pluripedia (2006) an evolution of wikipedia where multiple versions of each article are ranked according to your circle of trusted referees [more]
     
     
111. mini-blogs (2006) a 'view' that should be available on all web2.0 sites, allowing you to publish your own edition of the site's ongoing content, and to subscribe to others' miniblogs [more]
     
     
112. Glass earworms (2006) insane atonal earworms [more]
     
     
113. Polti vocabularies (2006) catalogs of (eg) plot skeletons [more]
     
     
114. worldtree (2007) was 'tree of life' (2005) 3D-worldlines visualisation of unique tree of life on Earth [intro]
     
     
115. discourse patterns (2007) a pattern language for rhetoric [more]
     
     
116. jLo notation (2007) shortening a two-word phrase by appending the lowercase initial of the first word to the capitalised last word
     
     
117. wBu (2007) GWBush = Pere wBu, wBu Roi (apologies to aJarry)
     
     
118. floaters (2007) blog-posts postdated so they stay at the top
     
     
119. meretocracy (2007) government by the most meretricious
     
     
120. tag portals (pending) the idea that any site with tagging should encourage taggers to create a portal-page for each tag, that gives an overview of everything the tagger thinks is important about that tag
     
     
121. net scouts (pending) incentive program for net.illiterate adults via 'merit badges'
     
     
122. Smithee dreams (pending) dreams with abysmal 'production values' eg plot holes, lousy special effects
     
     
123. dissipedia (pending) a wikipedia of links to negative criticism of ideas/people/etc
     
     
124. hypodata (pending) eg footnotes (cx metadata)
     
     
125. hypertext mashup language (pending) inevitable evolution where web markup allows multiple pages to be customised and/or combined
     
     
126. chronogram (pending) a graph with time as the Y axis (flowing up) and space as the X
     
     
127. .5* (pending) semi- (eg '.5friv' = semifriv)
     
     
128. pagestream (pending) eg your browser history, or your linkblog, or a page of search-engine results
     
     

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the challenge of meditation
is not to think

the mind normally filled
with neurotic habits

and the challenge of artistic creativity
is to subvert cliche
(vs nabokov's gap-fillers)

and the scandal of philosophy
is the sophomoric sophistries
like free will or epistemological solipsism
tying innocent minds in useless knots

and usenet newsgroups often used to
suffer from negative intelligence
flamewars displacing constructive discussion
like coinage under gresham's law

or kneejerk techno-utopianism
urging (eg) educators
to squander their budgets on digital multimedia
when the real problem as always
is rewarding the best teachers

so the semantic web movement
for its earliest days
jumped the track
seduced by the shiny
techno quick fix
of xml
and its pie-in-the-sky promises
about embedded metadata

delivering only a flatline
adoption curve
while (eg) wikipedia
keeps rocketing up exponentially

and while journalistic coverage
of 'web 3.0' increases
the hype sounds more and more
hollow and anemic
rdf topicmaps microformats blahblahblah

endless jargonmania
but no 'there' there
never jam today

so i'll suggest again
that metadata belongs in the file header
(not in embedded markup)

and that wikipedia article titles
have solved one semantic problem
by automatically redirecting visitors
when an article title has changed
(i wish blogger did this)

so webpages can begin painlessly
categorizing themselves in their headers
with the closest wikipedia article title/s

and google should index these
with a special keyword
eg "wikiarticle:Ajax_(programming)"

but even more
we can categorise filetypes
"filetype:timeline"

and even more, i now propose
an ontology wiki
eg "ontoclass:business/merger"

that encourages experiment
and redirects changed classnames automatically

and that uses storycycles
as the macroformat

allowing description of
any random news story
any random wikipedia article
any random web resource

by sketching a universal
usual story

of everyperson (eg their wikipedia biographies)
of everyproduct (eg their history and web resources)
of everyprogram (eg the software lifecycle)
of everyenterprise (eg their corporate history)
of everyfile (its creation and dissemination)
ov everyword (its etymology)
of everyidea (its genesis and evolution)
of everyspecies (its selection pressures)

so that the metadata
for any given object
can emphasize precisely
those 'slots' in the usual storycycle
where the object's particular history
deviates from the usual expectations

these storycycles being compiled
incrementally, wiki-fashion
by storytellers who understand
the usual range of details
(a storycycle storycycle)

with an ongoing appreciation of the impermanence
of particular wording
or particular orderings

software storycycle
biography storycycle
business storycycle
hardware storycycle

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