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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
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
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
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
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
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
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