How I’m writing

I'm :gardening.

Expect my stuff on this site to grow and change and be re-arranged. Expect words and toys and videos and transcripts and lists and tools. I hope that you'll find this collection to be an interesting place to explore.

Some things that I'm building in for you will make it more-explorable, some will make it more usable. Among those are:

• Backlinks – you'll find a button at the bottom of each page showing what pages link in to the page you're on.
• Search – you'll search most of the text of the site with the search tool. Use your browser to search the page)
• Dynamic footnotes – I'm using nutshell from Nicky Case to give you text that expands to give you more, but which might be a distraction to the flow of the words. I'll link other pages like that, too – so links with a : in front mea you get to glance at content, rather than change your route.
• Canonical links – I'll work not to break links, though you may find that the text may have changed. If the older version is interestingly different, I may keep a copy on a linked page as well as in GitHub.
• Change indicators – you can see when the page last changed, and I'll indicate state and edits :somewhere
• Comments – I want your thoughts, and I want to incorporate them (with attribution) in to these pages. Comments are on for subscribers.
• Expanding sections – I'll put some topics in sections that fold up (or unfold, depending on mood) so that you can get them out of the way (or bring them up) as you need.
• Change control – I'll put big revisions on GitHub.
• Table of contents – not done yet, but big pages
• Lots of ways in – arising as we go
• Tags – not yet implemented, but each page will have several tags, and each tag will take you to a list of other pages with the same tag.
• Print to pdf – when I sort the CSS, you'll find that the current state of the page will print nicely to pdf.

Don't expect the text to stay static. These are not magazine articles, this is not a blog, and nor is it a textbook. It is, at core, an experience. I hope that it is, :like some gardens, a pleasant place to explore.

Cheers –

James

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Currently, italicised text at the top. This is likely to change.

Gardening

Here are some sources

The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oreg…

HapgoodChris Lott (fncll)

Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens

Building personal learning environments across the different time horizons of information consumption

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web

Maggie Appleton