Hypertext

Stylized layout for a garden with many interconnected centers, demonstrating how connections form a coherent whole
Tools for Thought

Links create topology or sense of space in posts

Mike Caulfield makes a distinction between online posts that are “gardens” and posts that are “streams.” Streams are posts that you read, and then they move on, disappearing into history. They are utterances, meaning that they can only be correctly understood by what was said before. You can follow the chain of utterance back, thanks…

A page from the notebook of 18th century artist George Caitlin, with the headline "Amusements" describing his paintings of various activities
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Your Blog as a Commonplace Book

In a post titled The Memex Method Cory Doctorow notes that he thinks of his blog as a kind of commonplace book. It is a sort of digital journal where he collects whatever captures his attention and saves it for future use. The benefit that his blog gives him over a notebook or a PKM…