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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoAll Roads Lead to Om | Matt Mullenweg2026-06-27T07:16:32+00:00
https://ma.tt/2026/06/om-forever/
robertogrecoThey say that blood is thicker than water, and what we had was way thicker than blood. — Bob Weir
Om’s request was for a small family prayer ceremony. In mourning, that will be all there is. In celebration and tribute, I love that everyone is sharing their Om stories online, like the writing and photography Christopher Michel shared, which very much embody the OG spirit of blogging that Om pioneered.
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A Renaissance Man
I knew Om contained multitudes, but sitting by his side these last few weeks, I’ve been amazed to learn how many deep and completely separate communities he was part of. He meant so much to so many, in so many different ways.
Om loved putting on a good conference, and I’d like to celebrate his life with an awesome event on September 29, 2026 (his 60th) in San Francisco, like an OmFest. I’ll find a space where every community from the many facets of Om can come together. In the spirit of Open Source and co-creation, we can have some booths, flash talks, a gallery of his photography, pen showcase, and whatever other fun ideas people want to contribute. I can’t wait for the beautiful collision of his tech / journalism / Indian party planner / pen / coffee / shoes / photography circles, and probably some niches I couldn’t even imagine.
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A Few Vignettes
I have so much to say about Om, but right now I’m working on moderating comments and keeping his website tip-top, so here are a few snippets:
Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and people in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t just for the fine and famous. It extended to every soul that crossed his path. His encyclopedic knowledge and photographic memory created connections not just in San Francisco, but all around the world wherever we traveled. (I need to pull the stats, but we went to five continents together, including Antarctica.)
He loved people and their stories.
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Om and I were an odd couple. We met online through forums and email because Om was one of the earliest adopters of WordPress. We finally met in person in 2004 when I was 20 and he was 38. He connected me to the first investors I ever spoke to, Phil Black, who formed True Ventures, and Tony Conrad, and introduced me to Toni Schneider, my business soul mate, who became like a co-founder as the CEO of Automattic in our first 8 years.
And of course on the internet. I don’t know how we would count, but I would guess Om read at least 1 or 2% of the whole thing.
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Om was a voracious learner. I was there when he first used chopsticks, and only a few months later, he knew every sushi restaurant in San Francisco and exactly what he liked at each.
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Om is probably in the top ten in the world for finding things incredibly early. That’s why he has the best usernames! How does one guy get the @om username on WordPress.com in 2005 (user ID 719), Twitter in 2006, Instagram in 2010? The first WordPress meetup was at Chaat Cafe (now Corner) in 2005, 8 people showed up, and Om was one of them.
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One of the biggest lessons I learned from Om is the deep appreciation of craft. When he took an interest in photography or pens, he would somehow find his way to the most obscure, highest-quality expression of that form. “What Would Om Want?” is a question I will always ponder. I want to craft products that would make Om proud.
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Om’s last word was “love.”"]]>ommalik grief friendship death life 2026 bobwier mattmullenweg christophermichel writing howwewrite storytelling blogs blogging humanity curiosity respect stories waysofliving craft lovehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6fd042aa68b2/Mea2026-04-10T04:44:33+00:00
https://mea.media/
robertogrecoonlinetoolkit blogs blogging socialmedia internet online web platforms microblogginghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eb22415479d8/The Case for Blogging in the Ruins2026-01-02T23:15:04+00:00
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-blogging-in-the-ruins/
robertogrecojoanwestenberg 2026 blogs blogging writing howwewrite rss thinking howwethink reading socialmedia web internet discovery online platforms friction publishing attention facebook twitter montaigne newsletters diderot algorithms micheldemontaigne virginiawoolf denisdiderothttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:86898c7aabf6/Dealgorithmed × 001 • Buttondown2026-01-02T01:45:24+00:00
https://buttondown.com/dealgorithmed/archive/dealgorithmed-x-001/
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https://www.elizabethspiers.com/requiem-for-early-blogging/
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https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/
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https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-article-on-ai/
robertogreco“I don’t recommend reading it, but you can if you want. It is full of half-baked ideas and shoddy reasoning.”1
I have tried hard, so very hard, not to just be the guy that hates AI, even though the only thing that people want to talk to me about is the one time I ranted about AI at length. I contain multitudes, meaning that I am capable of delivering widely varied payloads of vitriol to a vast array of topics.
However, the piece is now being circulated in communities that I respect, and I was near my breaking point when someone suggested that Ptacek's piece is being perceived as a “glass half full” counterpoint to my own perspective. There is a glass half full piece. It's what I already wrote. The glass has a specific level of water in it. Then finally, I saw that it was in my YouTube feed, and I reached my limit.
Let me be extremely clear2 — I think this essay sucks and it's wild to me that it achieved any level of popularity, and anyone that thinks that it does not predominantly consist of shoddy thinking and trash-tier ethics has been bamboozled by the false air of mature even-handedness, or by the fact that Ptacek is a good writer.
Anyway, here I go killin’ again."]]>ai ethics productivity blogs software criticism skepticism critique programming artificialintelligence thomasptacek nikhilsuresh llms attention samaltman openai chatgpt niksureshhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2456a5e41ace/On the Golden Age of Blogging - varnelis.net2025-05-04T19:46:35+00:00
https://varnelis.net/works_and_projects/on-the-golden-age-of-blogging/
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https://blog.ayjay.org/things-made-and-in-the-making/
robertogrecoSometimes I think that, even amidst all these ruptures and renovations, the biggest divide in media exists simply between those who finish things, and those who don’t. The divide exists also, therefore, between the platforms and institutions that support the finishing of things, and those that don’t.
Finishing only means: the work remains after you relent, as you must, somehow, eventually. When you step off the treadmill. When you rest.
Finishing only means: the work is whole, comprehensible, enjoyable. Its invitation is persistent; permanent.
I like this, but I want to make a distinction between resting from your labors on a particular project and resting from your labors altogether, through retirement or death.
My attitude toward the works I have completed — at at this point that’s fifteen books and a couple of hundred essays and reviews — is that I have never finished anything to my own satisfaction, I have only been forced to abandon it. That’s why I am psychologically incapable of re-reading anything I’ve written. I may retrieve small chunks of it for one purpose or another, but I’ve never re-read anything of mine longer than a blog post. I learned early in my career that revisiting what I’ve published brings only regrets. So, you know, as the man said: “Fare forward, voyagers.”
Maybe for this reason I am drawn toward the work that is never finished in the sense that it’s never handed over to someone else, never designated as complete. Take Montaigne’s Essays for instance, a page of which, in a modern edition or translation, looks like this:
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Montaigne published the first edition of the Essays in 1580 – that’s the main text here. Then in 1588 he published a second edition with new essays and revisions to the earlier ones: those are marked [b]. He continued up to the end of his life to add new essays and revise the old ones: those most recent changes are marked [c]. Montaigne died at age 59, but if he had lived twenty years longer we might have had further editions of the Essays and, consequently, texts with markings of [d], [e], and [f].
I love this. “Essay” means “trial” or “attempt,” of course, and thus Montaigne’s book by its very nature invites second and third thoughts, second and third trials: iteration that ends only when you die, or when you grow tired of it all and retreat into a life of pure contemplation.
I’m a big fan of contemplation, but I tend to contemplate most effectively when I have a pen in my hand. And a notebook provides endless opportunities to revisit, rethink, fail again, fail better. Though I never re-read my published works, I re-read my notebooks regularly: I consider such revisitations essential to thought, to growth, to intellectual and moral and spiritual maturation.
For me — for my personal wants and needs and satisfactions — my notebooks are the most important writing I do. Then come my essays, and then my books. I think I have written some good books, and they’re made a place for themselves in the world — I’ve sold about 300,000 copies all told, most of those The Narnian and How to Think, which is nothing compared to having a YouTube channel, but not altogether contemptible for a writer of books — but if I had not been in a profession that places a premium on the publication of books, I don’t know that I ever would’ve written a single one. (Maybe a collection or two of essays, though, if I had found any publisher charitable enough to put them out.) It has been good for me to be pushed towards book-writing, but it’s not my natural métier — the essay is. And maybe the notebook is, even more.
But what about blog posts, like this one? This blog stands at the juncture of the essay and the notebook. Some of these posts are essays, though usually briefer than the ones that get published by other people; others are basically notebook entries shared with the public. What makes a post an essay is completeness: a story told to the end, a train of thought traced to a destination, a pattern of ideas or responses fully woven. Conversely, you can tell that a post is essentially a notebook entry when I say something like “I’ll revisit this idea later” or “Perhaps a topic for a future post.”
In my recent series of posts on the family [https://blog.ayjay.org/tag/family/ ] I was writing on a topic so complex, so nuanced, so difficult that it would have been an impertinence, I think, to issue a finished word. I would dishonor the multiplicity of people’s experiences, the complexity of my own experience, by offering anything like a complete statement. So I put some thoughts out there, related them to one another as best I could, and now I am pausing to reflect. Probably there will be more later. On a blog there can always be more later, and one of the best uses of hyperlinks is to link to your earlier self, even (or especially) when you think your earlier self was wrong about something or left something out.
It’s great to finish (or in my case abandon) something: to tell this story, to make this argument as well as you possibly can, crafting it with all your skill, and sending it out into the world to make its way as best it can. But there’s a place also — and I feel this increasingly strongly as I get older — for the tentative and incomplete, for “I’ll revisit this later,” for “Oh, I forgot this when I wrote that” — for, maybe above all, being corrected by charitable but honest readers and then being able to try again on the basis of what the lawyers call “information and belief.” I am always, and hope I always will be, gathering more information and developing my beliefs. As the man also said, “Old men ought to be explorers.”"]]>2025 alanjacobs howwewrite writing blogs blogging robinsloan unfinished incomplete thinking howwwethink montaigne contemplation notebooks workinginpublic howwework micheldemontaigne essays incompletenesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:50e8da27d1c5/Bad shape2025-01-13T01:54:43+00:00
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
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https://pika.page/
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https://humancarbohydrate.substack.com/p/94-practical-and-emotional-human
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https://buttondown.com/comparison-guides/take-rates
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https://www.are.na/block/20684314
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https://thebaffler.com/latest/extremely-online-and-incredibly-tedious-sasseen
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https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/09/the-memex-method/
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/05/the-blogosphere-is-in-full-bloom-the-rest-of-the-internet-has-wilted-dave-winer
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https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/28/24230587/tumblr-move-blogs-wordpress-automattic
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https://blog.ayjay.org/the-uncanny-valley-of-blogging/
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https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/
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https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/how-do-i-use-the-internet-now
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http://walkinginla.com/
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https://www.ninnsalaun.com/today
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-OFnHwuTBg
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/coming-of-age-at-the-dawn-of-the-social-internet
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/internet-future-about-to-get-weird-1234938403/
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https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/196_the_human_side_of_the_ai_underclass_w_joanne_mcneil
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23964580/tumblr-downscaling-smaller-social-media-site
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/why-the-internet-isnt-fun-anymore
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https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2023/03/11/ep-370
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https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/8/mastodon-is-just-blogs/
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https://heritage1854.com/
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https://bearblog.dev/
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https://collectednotes.com/
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https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/01/a-return-to-blogs-finally-sort-of/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiHKbeDOXas
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https://kottke.org/18/04/blogging-is-most-certainly-not-dead
robertogrecoI also keep it out of spite, because I refuse to let social media take everything. Those shapeless, formless platforms haven’t earned it and don’t deserve it. I’ve blogged about this many times, but I still believe it: When I log into Facebook, I see Facebook. When I visit your blog, I see you.
Social media is as compelling as ever, but people are increasingly souring on the surveillance state Skinner boxes like Facebook and Twitter. Decentralized media like blogs and newsletters are looking better and better these days…"
[See also:
Noticing Newsletter's "Blogging Is Most Certainly Not Dead" edition:
https://mailchi.mp/kottke/blogging-is-not-dead-edition-2575912502?e=9915150aa0
Noticing Newsletter's "The Best Kottke Posts of 2018 B-Sides" edition
https://mailchi.mp/kottke/noticing-the-best-kottke-posts-of-2018-b-sides-edition-12212018?e=9915150aa0 ]]]>blogs blogging jasonkottke kottke 2018 writing web web2.0 internet online rsshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3fa0875978ac/Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters — by Craig Mod2019-02-07T22:07:33+00:00
https://craigmod.com/essays/newsletters/
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https://www.catranslation.org/blog-post/translation-blogs-we-think-you-should-be-reading/
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https://www.wired.com/story/future-book-is-here-but-not-what-we-expected/
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https://ericbrightwell.com/
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https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back
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https://oakulture.com/
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https://micro.blog/
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https://48hills.org/
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https://www.onimagazine.com/home-1/2018/2/10/book-review-love-and-other-words-i-mispronounced
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https://kottke.org/17/12/zines-are-the-future-of-media
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http://warpdoor.com/
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http://snapchat-blog.com/
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https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/magazine/how-an-archive-of-the-internet-could-change-history.html
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https://journeythroughteachingandmath.wordpress.com/
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https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/
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http://www.pri.org/programs/world-words
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http://textilecuisine.blogspot.com/
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http://k-punk.org/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming/
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http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/05/elise-goes-east-how-nprs-new-seoul-bureau-chief-is-using-tumblr-to-complement-her-reporting/
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/the-atlantic-unbound/391116/
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https://vimeo.com/122363654
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http://thetextissilence.tumblr.com/
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/authors/Adam_Curtis
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http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/risk-reward-digital-writing/
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_Chronofile
robertogrecoIf somebody kept a very accurate record of a human being, going through the era from the Gay '90s, from a very different kind of world through the turn of the century—as far into the twentieth century as you might live. I decided to make myself a good case history of such a human being and it meant that I could not be judge of what was valid to put in or not. I must put everything in, so I started a very rigorous record
—Buckminster Fuller, Oregon Lecture #9, p.324, 12 July 1962"]]>1962 chronofile dymaxion dymaxionchronofile lifelogging buckminsterfuller blogging blogshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0c0e4010cd46/Rev Dan Catt: Still Blogging2014-10-21T18:42:33+00:00
http://revdancatt.com/2014/10/18/still_blogging
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http://tomofholland.com/
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http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=1644
robertogrecoDocumentation of the NWG’s effort is through notes such as this. Notes may be produced at any site by anybody and included in this series…. [Content] may be any thought, suggestion, etc. related to the HOST software or other aspect of the network. Notes are encouraged to be timely rather than polished. Philosophical positions without examples or other specifics, specific suggestions or implementation techniques without introductory or background explication, and explicit questions without any attempted answers are all acceptable. The minimum length for a NWG note is one sentence.
These standards (or lack of them) are stated explicitly for two reasons. First, there is a tendency to view a written statement as ipso facto authoritative, and we hope to promote the exchange and discussion of considerably less than authoritative ideas. Second, there is a natural hesitancy to publish something unpolished, and we hope to ease this inhibition.
You can see the similarity to blogging right away. At least two primary Network Working Groups are involved: that of all the other people in the world (let’s call that civilization), and that of the network that constitutes one’s own cognition and the resulting “strange loop,” to use Douglas Hofstadter’s language. We are all of us in this macrocosm and this microcosm. Most of us will have multiple networks within these mirroring extremes, but the same principles will of course apply there as well. What is the ethos of the Network Working Group we call civilization? And for those of us engaged in the specific cognitive interventions we call education, what is the ethos of the Network Working Group we help out students to build and grow within themselves as learners? We discussed Ivan Illich in the Virginia Tech New Media Faculty-Staff Development Seminar today, and I was forcibly reminded that the NWG within sets the boundaries (and hopes) we have with which to craft our NWG without. School conditions what we expect in and from civilization.
I hope it’s also clear that these RFC-3 documentation conventions specify a praxis of intellectual discourse–indeed, I’d even say scholarly communication–that is sadly absent from most academic work today.
Would such communciation be rigorous? Academic? Worthy of tenure and promotion? What did these RFCs accomplish, and how do they figure in the human record? Naughton observes that this “Request for Comments” idea–and the title itself, now with many numerals following–has persisted as “the way the Internet discusses technical issues.” Naughton goes on to write that “it wasn’t just the title that endured … but the intelligent, friendly, co-operative, consensual attitude implied by it. With his modest, placatory style, Steve Crocker set the tone for the way the Net developed.” Naughton then quotes Katie Hafner’s and Matthew Lyon’s judgment that “the language of the RFC … was warm and welcoming. The idea was to promote cooperation, not ego.”
Naughton concludes,
The RFC archives contain an extraordinary record of thought in action, a riveting chronicle of the application of high intelligence to hard problems….
Why would we not want to produce such a record within the academy and share it with the public? Or are we content with the ordinary, forgotten, and non-riveting so long as the business model holds up?
Or have we been schooled so thoroughly that the very ambition makes no sense?
More Naughton:
The fundamental ethos of the Net was laid down in the deliberations of the Network Working Group. It was an ethos which assumed that nothing was secret, that problems existed to be solved collaboratively, that solutions emerged iteratively, and that everything which was produced should be in the public domain.
I think of the many faculty and department meetings I have been to. Some of them I have myself convened. The ethos of those Network Working Groups has varied considerably. I am disappointed to say that none of them has lived up to the fundamental ethos Naughton identifies above. I yearn for documentation conventions that will produce an extraordinary record of thought in action, with the production shared by all who work within a community of learning. And I wonder if I’m capable of Crocker’s humility or wisdom, and answerable to his invitation. I want to be."]]>gardnercampbell internet web online commenting johnnaughton 2011 arpanet stevecrocker via:steelemaley networks networkworkinggroups ivanillich standards content shiftytext networkedculture networkedlearning blogs blogging inhibition unfinished incomplete cicilization douglashofstadter praxis cooperation tcsnmy sharing schooling unschooling academia highered highereducation authority humility wisdom collegiality katiehafner matthewlyon rfc-3 rfc incompletenesshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:512b2d5dd1ae/Taught by Finland2014-08-28T05:33:59+00:00
http://www.taughtbyfinland.com/
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http://www.museum-ed.org/
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