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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
The garden helps us move away from time-bound streams and into contextual knowledge spaces.
Maggie Appleton 🧠• 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
“Unplanned hypertext sprawl is wilderness: complex and interesting, but uninviting. Interesting things await us in the thickets, but we may be reluctant to plough through the brush, subject to thorns and mosquitoes”
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Caufield makes clear digital gardening is not about specific tools – it’s not a Wordpress plugin, Gastby theme, or Jekyll template. It’s a different way of thinking about our online behaviour around information - one that accumulates personal knowledge over time in an explorable space.
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Over the last decade, we've moved away from casual live journal entries and formalised our writing into articles and essays . These are carefully crafted, edited, revised, and published with a timestamp. When it's done, it's done. We act like tiny magazines, sending our writing off to the printer.
This is odd considering editability is one of the
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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
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
Maggie Appleton 🧠• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
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 piĂą un atto di decluttering, quando una riorganizzazione della struttura di navigazione
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