http://atic.phys.lsu.edu/aticweb/definitions.htm (more)

Geoffrey Litt: Function Follows Form? I’ve been spending my summer (remotely) at Ink and Switch, the research lab where I worked on Cambria last summer. This time around I’m working on rich text editing, together with Slim and a few other collaborators. We have some ideas about how collaborative rich text editors (like Google Docs) could better support the way people actually want to work together, and how CRDTs like Automerge could help enable those use cases. Not much to share widely yet, but get in touch if you have thoughts on that topic! (more)

Dani Grant and Nick Grossman of Union Square Ventures: The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase: Our hypothesis is that this is not actually how things play out. We are not in an infrastructure phase, but rather in another turn of the apps-infrastructure cycle. And in fact, the history of new technologies shows that apps (KillerApp) beget infrastructure, not the other way around. (more)

Laying out some of the players in Open Metaverse, DeFi, Web3 (more)

ICOs Are Attracting the Wrong People. Addressing attendees on day two of the Scaling Bitcoin conference at Stanford University, Joi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab, gave an impassioned talk about complex systems that sought to encourage thinking on the larger, societal impacts bitcoin could have, one that pushed back that these motivations should be purely economic. (more)

see Technical Debt

One of the key DigitalGarden/Wiki features is that using WikiWords (a) makes it easy to generate new nodes, and (b) automatically links to already-existing nodes by matching the name. (more)

see Backlinks

Gold farming is the practice of playing a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) to acquire in-game currency that other players purchase in exchange for real-world money.[1][2] People in several developing nations have held full-time employment as Gold Farmer-s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming aka gold farming (more)

Rob Hardy: The Case Against Substack. In a media ecosystem increasingly dominated by the loudest, most outrage-driven voices, Substack’s carved out a space where thoughtfulness reigns, and individual creators are rewarded for the depth of their contribution. It’s refreshing, and it gives me a glimmer of hope for the future of indie media. As a creator and entrepreneur, I’m perplexed and concerned by Substack’s seemingly endless list of shortcomings. (more)

high fidelity, high quality (of reproduction) (more)

hacker/writer? https://doriantaylor.com/ https://twitter.com/doriantaylor

"Smallest" possible product you can start market-testing ("doing validated learning") with real customers - validate biggest assumption (Theory Building) in your Lean Canvas. (more)

Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. He is known for developing the free and open-source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation. After dropping out of the University of Houston, he worked at CNET Networks from 2004 to 2006 until he quit and founded Automattic, an internet company whose brands include WordPress.com, Akismet, Gravatar, VaultPress, IntenseDebate, Crowdsignal, and Tumblr (acquired). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Mullenweg

Ash Maurya describes how he designed the Minimum Viable Product for Cloud Fire, a Photo Sharing service. (more)

Peter Valentinovich Turchin[needs IPA] (Russian: Пётр Валенти́нович Турчи́н; born 1957) is a Russian-American evolutionary anthropologist, specializing in cultural evolution and cliodynamics—mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies.[1] He is a professor at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology as well as in the Department of Anthropology and in the Department of Mathematics. As of 2020, he is a director of the Evolution Institute.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Turchin

One of the big "themes" associated with the Internet. (more)

the Open Standards part of the World Wide Web? Is this redundant? (more)

Victoria Hart (born 1988),[1][2] commonly known as Vi Hart (/ˈvaɪ hɑːrt, ˈviː hɑːrt/),[3] is an American mathematician and YouTuber. They describe themselves as a "recreational mathemusician" and are well-known for creating mathematical videos on YouTube.[4][5][6] Hart founded the virtual reality research group eleVR and has co-authored several research papers on computational geometry and the mathematics of paper folding.[7][8] Together with another YouTube mathematics popularizer, Matt Parker, Hart won the 2018 Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics for "entertaining, thought-provoking mathematics and music videos on YouTube that explain mathematical concepts through doodles". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi_Hart

MemeTracker site http://reddit.com/ (more)