Teresa Torres explains her Opportunity Solution Tree: Why This Opportunity Solution Tree is Changing the Way Product Teams Work. I’ve been coaching product teams for three years on modern product discovery and this single change has had a bigger impact on how teams work than everything else I do with them combined. (more)

Dan Hon: s11e12: Forget about infrastructure, I just want my tea. They still want to know what “infrastructure” means and you’re struggling because you need something real and not something abstract (more)

Simon Wardley on Wardley Mapping Our Way to a Common Language (shared language). ...being applied to complex issues ranging from distributed systems in the cloud to billions in cost savings to the climate emergency to each of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. (more)

Fernando Flores/Terry Winograd concept: "expert behavior requires an exquisite sensitivity to Context" (more)

Web 2.0, also called Participative (or Participatory)[1] and Social Web[2], refers to World Wide Web websites that emphasize user-generated content, usability (ease of use, even by non-experts), participatory culture and interoperability (this means that a website can work well with other products, systems, and devices) for end users. The term was invented by Darcy DiNucci in 1999 and popularized several years later by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

see Web2.0

Mar'2022: Venkatesh Rao asks Web1 : GTD :: Web2 : BASB :: Web3 : ?? to which I replied: TarotKasten (cf tarot, zettelkasten)

The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, by James Beniger. ISBN:0674169867 (more)

The First Moderns: Profiles in the Origins of Twentieth-Century Thought by William Everdell ISBN:0226224813 (more)

book by Francis Spufford about Soviet Union's attempts at Planned Economy. ISBN:1555976042 (more)

Bovine is meant to be a modular FediVerse server that supports ActivityPub. During its history, as how to split the tasks between different modules has become clearer, and the split is not done yet. A lot of the changes are due to the realization that parts can be split away as an ActivityPub Client. Here an ActivityPub Client is an application that communicates with just a single ActivityPub Server. https://codeberg.org/bovine/bovine (more)

An easy & approachable language for modern web front-ends. Enhance HTML with concise DOM, event and async features. Make writing interactive HTML a joy. https://hyperscript.org/ (more)

Dave Winer frame: http://textcasting.org/ (more)

Tantek Celik: One of the pretty neat innovations from Mastodon has been actual, functional, and fairly reliable (from all accounts I’ve seen) distributed system account migration, with the notable exception of post migration, which has additional challenges worth exploring... as far as I know, no other blogging (or chat) software, system, or even protocol comes close to achieving the level of functionality described in Mastodon’s documentation.

John Scalzi: The Big Idea: Cory Doctorow. For years, Cory Doctorow has carved one of the most idiosyncratic paths in the genre of science fiction and fantasy (more)

Cory Doctorow: Revenge of the Linkdumps. (more)

Cosma Shalizi: The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone. The Singularity has happened; we call it "the industrial revolution" or "the long nineteenth century". It was over by the close of 1918. (more)

Peter Watts: No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » Red Team Blues. A number of years ago, while I was just beginning to figure out this whole Writing thing, I tried to classify what I saw as “successful authors”. (more)

Cosma Shalizi on Godel's Theorem. A much-abused result in mathematical logic, supposed by many authors who don't understand it to support their own favored brand of rubbish, and even subjected to surprisingly rough handling by some who really should know better. (Kurt Godel) (more)

Cosma Shalizi: Was John Dewey a Member of the Reality-Based Community? I'm happy with the idea of John Dewey as a defender of justice and the American Way, but realism? (more)