Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
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Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
As the web grew, its linking structure accumulated a mind-boggling value. It treated the aggregate of all its contents as a huge compost of ideas, any one of which could be reached by the act of connecting one document to another.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
The power of communities and systems lies in their intra-action, their becoming-together to produce something greater than their parts.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
information network through which we garner knowledge about opportunities that we might never otherwise come across if we had to find them for ourselves.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
And the way we’re interconnected changes the way we see and process information that comes our way, which changes the culture. The form of the network changes the way the network operates.
Substack • Seeing Like a Network
The richest insights are found in overlooked sources and connections that are beyond the reach of the internet and the incentives of its curatorial algorithms. My inspiration comes from unexpected places: the yellowed pages of out-of-print software books, modern science fiction essays, the writings of early religious leaders, and unique items in ma... See more
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