Letting things build

This week I put together a reading list for my digital aura series. I recall starting to write around Thanksgiving — but when I looked back at my reading, I’d started reading for it months earlier. (No wonder it’s felt like such a big endeavor!)

Week 7: Microwaving gravy - Alex's Blog

Blogroll – Manu

I believe we should all blog more and connect more with strangers. There's not much I can do as an individual. I can offer to be your first reader, …

On Writing #3

Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective.

Join The Onion

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

Chasing RATs: Tracing Reading for and as Creative Activity

Creativity research has privileged making over the interpretive labor that precedes and shapes it. We introduce Reading Activity Traces (RATs), a proposal that treats reading -- broadly defined to include navigating, interpreting, and curating media across interconnected sources -- as creative activity both for future artifacts and as a form of creation in its own right. By tracing trajectories of traversal, association, and reflection as inspectable artifacts, RATs render visible the creative work that algorithmic feeds and AI summarization increasingly compress and automate away. We illustrate this through WikiRAT, a speculative instantiation on Wikipedia, and open new ground for reflective practice, reader modeling, collective sensemaking, and understanding what is lost when human interpretation is automated -- towards designing intelligent tools that preserve it.

Finest Day

Because in good we trust. 𝌃𝌂𝌃 Hi there, friendly people of the internet. 🌿 I’m Sebastian, and I like typing letters. Occasionally managing to string them together so they form beautiful words, even coherent sentences (at least I hope so). Welcome to my blog.