May 27, 2010 at 19:59Project Note 2
In a recent series of posts (here is the first one ) A. Milner described his vision of the device and architecture of the future Internet. One of the central concepts in it is personal space (" platform"). As I understand it, the space in the traditional sense for a modern Internet is a personal website or an author’s blog (where a team can be an author). The approach is natural, but not unique. As there are different concepts and accordingly different tasks in quantum mechanics, it’s more convenient to solve in one of them, and on the Internet, instead of personal space, one of the central concepts can be made an “author’s project.” This approach emphasizes the time aspect of human activity, since the project is deployed Camping in time and binds its various elements into one more specific purpose than a certain space. The meaningful goal setting is more characteristic for the intellectual part of the user. And even if certain goals are not, the very nature of working with information and people bears an imprint of quality - the materials on their blogs and personal sites are more thought out and structured, there is a certain policy of friendliness and interaction with the audience. It looks as if they are developing some of their projects that are simply at an early stage of accumulation, reflection and formation. Such initial stages, even for projects with a specific goal, are usually long and the matter often looks as if there is no goal))
Further, I partially repeat, because already wrote in different posts on various occasions. Content is easier to generate a) in the process of communication, b) in small formats. Modern services take this into account, as a result, mass production of content is stimulated. Natural evolution consists in the fact that quantitative accumulation leads to qualitative transformations - to the formation of larger, logically connected forms from small-format elements. From individual theses and hypotheses to their justification, arguments, observations, remarks, summarizing the summary and further to articles gradually turning into chapters of books. This is quite a “project-like” activity. But in a modern Internet, these processes are difficult for two reasons. Firstly, because the content is generated and localized in the space of different services that are not related to each other. Secondly, because thinking and communication follow their own patterns, they have a significant share of chance, the formation of offtopics, and so on. In order to single out the necessary from a poorly structured environment and combine it into the necessary clusters, to establish interconnections and form hierarchies, in other words, to organize and systematize, we need specially tailored services for this. This problem is solved by various existing projects. Practical acquaintance with them is desirable, but here I will only mention the available "meta-information". to streamline and systematize - you need specially tailored services for this. This problem is solved by various existing projects. Practical acquaintance with them is desirable, but here I will only mention the available "meta-information". to streamline and systematize - you need specially tailored services for this. This problem is solved by various existing projects. Practical acquaintance with them is desirable, but here I will only mention the available "meta-information".
In a WebBrain project, you can upload structures created on a personal computer using PersonalBrain to the network. atomicxp last time gave a link to the Compendium application . By all means, one day I will download and use it; I especially like the attempt (as I understand it) to combine structuring and communication. Heruvim also provided another link about the Datamash project. I watched the proposed video carefully, but something is missing for me to understand whether this (and how) is related to the subject under consideration. Perhaps this is closer to the topic of my next post. I also read the description for IBM LanguageWare Miner for Multidimensional Socio-Semantic Networks (here you can download) It is claimed to be a tool for creating Web 2.0 applications. As well as a tool for developing innovative methods for Web 2.0. It is also a library, which through a simple unified API allows users to solve the problems of social computing, semantic processing and “activity-centered computing” (it seems to me the best translation will be project-oriented computing)). As I understand it, this tool is for developers, not for ordinary users. In particular, for developers of projects such as NEPOMUK ( Networked Environment for Personal Ontologybased Management of Unified Knowledge ), which is positioned as Social Semantic Desktop. There was also a project intended for corporate use, but forgot the name and lost the link.
Note that the projects mentioned are not pure web applications, but partly desktop ones, as you need to download something. In this form, the orientation and sharpening of the average mass Internet user disappears. However, communication takes place on the network, the accumulation of content and social connections takes place on the network, self-realization, self-positioning also takes place on the network. And all this happens precisely with the masses of users. It is therefore logical to have a purely networked and mass-oriented service, where this activity would also be accompanied by systematization and streamlining capabilities. (As such a service, I PR my idea of the project " Social Elevator"). Moreover, structuring not only stimulates the qualitative transformation of content from small to large forms, but also opens up the possibility for users to create Internet projects in a more traditional sense, which will be my next post .
Here it remains to consider only the above-mentioned problem of localizing content within services, which also inhibits its structuring. A. Milner proposes a full-fledged and radical version of the solution - to wait for the universal standardization and unification of the Internet in the future (more precisely, a large subset of it). Another option is to structure not the materials themselves, but links to them. And also fragments of materials from third-party resources, if the authors allow. For example, a link to an article can be discussed in the same way as the article itself, using the functionality for structuring.
Further, I partially repeat, because already wrote in different posts on various occasions. Content is easier to generate a) in the process of communication, b) in small formats. Modern services take this into account, as a result, mass production of content is stimulated. Natural evolution consists in the fact that quantitative accumulation leads to qualitative transformations - to the formation of larger, logically connected forms from small-format elements. From individual theses and hypotheses to their justification, arguments, observations, remarks, summarizing the summary and further to articles gradually turning into chapters of books. This is quite a “project-like” activity. But in a modern Internet, these processes are difficult for two reasons. Firstly, because the content is generated and localized in the space of different services that are not related to each other. Secondly, because thinking and communication follow their own patterns, they have a significant share of chance, the formation of offtopics, and so on. In order to single out the necessary from a poorly structured environment and combine it into the necessary clusters, to establish interconnections and form hierarchies, in other words, to organize and systematize, we need specially tailored services for this. This problem is solved by various existing projects. Practical acquaintance with them is desirable, but here I will only mention the available "meta-information". to streamline and systematize - you need specially tailored services for this. This problem is solved by various existing projects. Practical acquaintance with them is desirable, but here I will only mention the available "meta-information". to streamline and systematize - you need specially tailored services for this. This problem is solved by various existing projects. Practical acquaintance with them is desirable, but here I will only mention the available "meta-information".
In a WebBrain project, you can upload structures created on a personal computer using PersonalBrain to the network. atomicxp last time gave a link to the Compendium application . By all means, one day I will download and use it; I especially like the attempt (as I understand it) to combine structuring and communication. Heruvim also provided another link about the Datamash project. I watched the proposed video carefully, but something is missing for me to understand whether this (and how) is related to the subject under consideration. Perhaps this is closer to the topic of my next post. I also read the description for IBM LanguageWare Miner for Multidimensional Socio-Semantic Networks (here you can download) It is claimed to be a tool for creating Web 2.0 applications. As well as a tool for developing innovative methods for Web 2.0. It is also a library, which through a simple unified API allows users to solve the problems of social computing, semantic processing and “activity-centered computing” (it seems to me the best translation will be project-oriented computing)). As I understand it, this tool is for developers, not for ordinary users. In particular, for developers of projects such as NEPOMUK ( Networked Environment for Personal Ontologybased Management of Unified Knowledge ), which is positioned as Social Semantic Desktop. There was also a project intended for corporate use, but forgot the name and lost the link.
Note that the projects mentioned are not pure web applications, but partly desktop ones, as you need to download something. In this form, the orientation and sharpening of the average mass Internet user disappears. However, communication takes place on the network, the accumulation of content and social connections takes place on the network, self-realization, self-positioning also takes place on the network. And all this happens precisely with the masses of users. It is therefore logical to have a purely networked and mass-oriented service, where this activity would also be accompanied by systematization and streamlining capabilities. (As such a service, I PR my idea of the project " Social Elevator"). Moreover, structuring not only stimulates the qualitative transformation of content from small to large forms, but also opens up the possibility for users to create Internet projects in a more traditional sense, which will be my next post .
Here it remains to consider only the above-mentioned problem of localizing content within services, which also inhibits its structuring. A. Milner proposes a full-fledged and radical version of the solution - to wait for the universal standardization and unification of the Internet in the future (more precisely, a large subset of it). Another option is to structure not the materials themselves, but links to them. And also fragments of materials from third-party resources, if the authors allow. For example, a link to an article can be discussed in the same way as the article itself, using the functionality for structuring.