Critical Thinking and Seed Hypermedia

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Benefits of Centralization

Centralization isn't all bad! There are some use cases for it Of course, decentralization is the most important thing for us! (insert link about decentralization)

Broken Links: Devastation to Human Knowledge

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What kill RSS?

Social Newsfeed killed RSS. The social layer on what to read is better than feeling like you’re falling behind and not having good signal-to-noise filters. And publishers couldn’t monetize RSS via either ads or subscriptions.

The Friendster Autopsy: How a Social Network Dies

The Friendster Autopsy: How a Social Network Dies The researchers describe heart of successful networks in terms of what that they call K-cores. These are subset of users who not only have a lot of friends, but they have "resilience and social influence," Garcia says. As these K-cores disintegrated, the whole Friendster thing fell apart. If there's a lesson to be learned from the data, it's that it takes more than a lot of users to build a viable social network. They need to have strong connections too. So Facebook should be looking at the types of connections it users have and encourage them to connect to other strongly connected users, Garcia says. In other words, strong networks are made up of strongly-linked people, not of stragglers. CAUSE OF FAILURE ‍

Autores publican el mismo comentario varias veces seguidas

 ha creado el mismo comentario en 3 ocasiones en este documento ¿Por qué Nostr? Me pregunto por qué estará pasando esto!

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Thomas Jefferson To Edward Carrington

Paris, Jan. 16, 1787. The tumults in America, I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here. I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Europe. Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you & I, & Congress & Assemblies, judges & governors shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. The want of news has led me into disquisition instead of narration, forgetting you have every day enough of that...

Jeffersonian Newspapers & Decentralized Feeds

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Web of Trust: Identities without servers

At Seed Hypermedia, we believe the web needs decentralized, open, and neutral identities. Not as an independent technical feature, but as a foundational element of how we collaborate, publish, and govern online on the web. We are building a system where identity doesn’t come from a central server, but from your relationships and the shared trust they establish, just like in real life, where you vouch for someone because you know them, not because a corporation said so. Why Web of Trust? References

Should we add an Explore page on the Site seed.hyper.media/explore?

What if we create an Explore page on our Web, seed.hyper.media. Where users can find content on the hyper.media network, but overall, can learn how to use Seed from watching others use it?

Appviews and Viewspecs

 Viewspecs as in Engelbarts NLS.

What makes an Open Hypermedia System, Open?

What protocols are open? Back in the 1990s, hypertext academics didn't consider the web an open hypertext system. Why?

Private versus public archival

“Archiving” can be a challenging term when we talk about Seed Hypermedia. Our system’s architecture inherently stores everything—much like Project Xanadu, which was built on two key premises: By design, Seed Hypermedia supports the preservation that librarians, web archives, and other stewards traditionally manage. But this raises broader questions, such as: Is Seed Hypermedia a Good Tool for Archiving? References

What are some notable hypertext systems that support bi-directional links?

Xanadu Roam Research Links https://roamresearch.com/#/app/Mintter/page/KnkqKyild

Memex

This paragraph is huge for 1945 We are still building it in 2025!

What are Siloed Information Systems?

how not to silo information: What are really Ted Nelson Trails? For me, trails are the edit decision list and not the net of links. What makes an Information system open? Intertwingled? Should discussion threads be moderated to stick to a topic? now that that's above here, how do I resume using this 'page' without dealing with it. … "this issue is text fills up the space of meaning, without being 'digested' the way our central nervous system does?

Jefferson's letter to Edward Carrington, from Paris, Jan 16, 1787

sourced from https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/jefferson-the-works-vol-5-correspondence-1786-1789#lf0054-05_head_054 https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/jefferson-s-preference-for-newspapers-without-government-over-government-without-newspapers-1787 / Letter to Edward Carrington, from Paris, Jan 16, 1787 TO EDWARD CARRINGTON1 Paris, Jan. 16, 1787. Dear Sir, —Uncertain whether you might be at New York at the moment of Colo. Franks’s arrival, I have inclosed my private letters for Virginia under cover to our delegation in general, which otherwise I would have taken the liberty to inclose particularly to you, as best acquainted with the situation of the persons to whom they are addressed. Should this find you at New York, I will still ask your attention to them. The two large packages addressed to Colo. N. Lewis contain seeds, not valuable enough to pay postage, but which I would wish to be sent by the stage, or any similar quick conveyance. The letters to Colo. Lewis & Mr. Eppes (who take care of my affairs) are particularly interesting to me. The package for Colo. Richd. Cary our judge of Admiralty near Hampton, contains seeds & roots, not to be sent by Post. Whether they had better go by the stage, or by water, you will be the best judge. I beg your pardon for giving you this trouble. But my situation & your goodness will I hope excuse it. In my letter to Mr. Jay, I have mentioned the meeting of the Notables appointed for the 29th inst. It is now put off to the 7th or 8th of next month. This event, which will hardly excite any attention in America, is deemed here the most important one which has taken place in their civil line during the present century. Some promise their country great things from it, some nothing. Our friend de La Fayette was placed on the list originally. Afterwards his name disappeared; but finally was reinstated. This shews that his character here is not considered as an indifferent one; and that it excites agitation. His education in our school has drawn on him a very jealous eye from a court whose principles are the most absolute despotism. But I hope he has nearly passed his crisis. The King, who is a good man, is favorably disposed towards him: & he is supported by powerful family connections, & by the public good will. He is the youngest man of the Notables except one whose office placed him on the list. The Count de Vergennes has within these ten days had a very severe attack of what is deemed an unfixed gout. He has been well enough however to do business to-day. But anxieties for him are not yet quieted. He is a great & good minister, and an accident to him might endanger the peace of Europe. The tumults in America, I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here. I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution. To punish these errors too severely would be to suppress the only safeguard of the public liberty. The way to prevent these irregular interpositions of the people is to give them full information of their affairs thro’ the channel of the public papers, & to contrive that those papers should penetrate the whole mass of the people. The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers & be capable of reading them. I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Europe. Cherish therefore the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you & I, & Congress & Assemblies, judges & governors shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor. The want of news has led me into disquisition instead of narration, forgetting you have every day enough of that. I shall be happy to hear from you sometimes, only observing that whatever passes thro’ the post is read, & that when you write what should be read by myself only, you must be so good as to confide your letter to some passenger or officer of the packet. I will ask your permission to write to you sometimes, and to assure you of the esteem & respect with which I have honour to be Dear Sir your most obedient & most humble servt. 

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