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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
Landslide / Holdfast
Notes on what’s happening to our ability to collectively know things, and a look ahead to what this community is especially well positioned to do to support and revitalize our info ecosystems and the humans inside them.
Gradients of intimacy and creating shelter: An interview with Erin Kissane
How might we use nature as an inspiration for creating online communities?
digital garden
A digital garden is effectively an interconnected set of publicly available notes. You can think of it as a highly personal wiki, except its objective isn’t ...
From Social Network to Sense Making
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…
Garden and the Stream - thoughts
Revisiting a prescient 2015 keynote called The Garden and the Stream and analyzing where the AT protocol fits in the web
Leaflet — social publishing on the Atmosphere
A simple and powerful platform for social publishing — blogs, newsletters, and more!
Epistemic Infrastructure: Building Shared Truth in an Era of Disaggregation
The Construct of Collective Perception
Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
Boris Mann's digital garden and personal site.
Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media - Aaron Ross Powell
Decentralization, network overlap, and why we should all blog, too.
Open Social Network Cookbook
The Open Social Network Cookbook is the collective product of the Open Social Incubator, a cohort that MEDLab hosted from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?
From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking
The web has become a dominant epistemic environment, influencing people's beliefs at a global scale. However, online epistemic environments are increasingly polluted, impairing societies' ability to coordinate effectively in the face of global crises. We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution, and that healthier environments require redesigning how we collectively govern attention. Inspired by decentralization and open source software movements, we propose Open Source Attention, a socio-technical framework for "freeing" human attention from control by platforms, through a decentralized eco-system for creating, storing and querying stigmergic markers; the digital traces of human attention.
Digital Gardens
"A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. "
epistemic infrastructure
Explores a variety of topics around epistemological tools, especially the web, with the aim to discuss epistemic closure in two ways: 1/ the complete understanding of a subject 2/ the entrapment of the user
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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Do we actually need to write research papers at all?
God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn: 9780525562719 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
AI Tools for Trust: Community Notes, Rhetoric Detection & More
Can generative artificial intelligence be considered a cognitive subject? An analytic analysis
What Libraries Actually Do – Libraries as Epistemic Institutions
Epistemic Infrastructure: Building Shared Truth in an Era of Disaggregation