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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Tracing back how Neologisms are born helps us understand why anyone needed this word in the first place. Language is always a response to the evolving world around us – we expand it when our current vocabulary fails to capture what we’re observing, or have a particular desire for how we’d like the future to unfold. Naming is a political act as... See more
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
ways to turn their chronological blogs into exploratory, interlinked gardens.
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
una caratteristica importante dei digital gardens è il superamento della concezione cronologica, le informazioni sono organizzate più in modo tematico che temporale
Since none of these folks reference to the earlier nineties notion of digital gardening , or mention issues of hypertext navigation,
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
la definizione che viene creata nei primi anni 2000 riguarda più un atto di decluttering, quando una riorganizzazione della struttura di navigazione
Tracing back how Neologisms are born helps us understand why anyone needed this word in the first place. Language is always a response to the evolving world around us – we expand it when our current vocabulary fails to capture what we’re observing, or have a particular desire for how we’d like the future to unfold. Naming is a political act as... See more
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
One goal of these hyper-personalised gardens is deep contextualisation . The overwhelming lesson of the Web 2.0 social media age is that dumping millions of people together into decontextualised social spaces is a shit show. Devoid of any established social norms and abstracted from our specific cultural identities, we end up in awkward,... See more
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Ideally, this involves experimenting with the native languages of the web – HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. They’re the most flexible and robust tools we have for building interconnected knowledge online. Gardens are a chance to question the established norms of a ‘ personal website ’, and make space for weirder, wilder experiments.
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less... See more