New Model Push Notes
Little scraps of knowledge-building appear first in notebooks (the computer being too bulky for creativity), then get introduced to the Information Society as a small entry. The entry is modified as the author extends the idea, and finds supporting information. While existing ideas contribute to the original inception, the inception, in reality, springs from the thin air of the author's inspiration.
A idea pushed to a scrap of paper evolves into a expressed idea, collections of pushed ideas can create an aggregates of ideas forming well documented text. As concepts evolve, and the scale upwards into the expanding Information Society, meta-joins of documented concepts can create high level and cohesive virtual repositories of information attributable to no single source. Still recognizable within the joined documents are significant contributors, and the mapping of constructed information can show the evolution of ideas giving a foundation of supporting ideas for the further development of ideas. This describes truly inclusive knowledge building in the Information Society.
Ideas are not spawned by ideas; a person has to form an idea and express it as a concept for an idea to exist, to be recognized, and to become part of constructed knowledge. A leading newly inspired idea combined with its contributing and supporting knowledge gives most, if not all, of the information necessary to create linking constructs useful in attaching this new idea with documents built of similar ideas.
"I have this thought: this is where the thought came from, and these sources contributed to the thought, or support it" --thus the author reflects the thought he just developed; he creates from the reflection linking information so he can allow it attach to other similar ideas.
By adding tags (really keywords) to his knowledge constructs that reflect the ideas within the construct, the author can allow the ideas in his documents to mix with concurrent documents from other authors, or even himself, usually in his immediate environment. Such is linking in a localized information soup such as a web community.
Since no two documents of original ideas will reflect the same impression with which to create linking mechanisms, similar documents, possibly closely linked, will offer differing profiles of linking information.
As documents with similar ideas link to each other they can form a cluster. They can pull to themselves, as a cluster, other text that contains more diverse ideas because of the differences between them. This ongoing linking process can create expanded clusters of ideas that blend, in a multi-dimensional medium, to other clusters likewise built of closely linked ideas, just as colors blend in a spectrum.
Thus form floating clusters of meta-information constructs, and with them, newly freed and joined knowledge-building with no physical limitations.
These floating clusters have to originate from somewhere. They may develop in a discussion environment, for instance, where each idea is proposed in the form of a response to some other idea. Here, the discussion environment provides a scaffolded construction area based on commonly accepted ideas of thought development. The resulting ideas developed in the scaffolded environment can separate from the scaffolding to join conceptual idea clusters, with the benefit of highly reflective linking constructs. The ideas can float away from the scaffolding of the discussion forum into an entirely different, nebulous architecture of gravitationally attracted idea clusters. This architecture is multi-dimensional; it is more like a cytoplasm than a discussion environment or a book shelf; it is more like a mass of floating dandelion seeds than a ship's dry dock that constructed it.
The entry point for a person into the atmosphere in which all the clustered ideas float--the cytoplasm of the Information Society--is really a guiding overlay for the joined concepts: it is a narration. Ideally, a narration successfully joins a sequence of short stories, the clustered concepts, produced as teleplays where the narrator guides a listening person through the many knowledge constructs of linked concepts and ideas.
Listeners join into the Information Society to become contributors as they find areas in which they are comfortable. They then can build knowledge from knowledge. Meditating on concepts, developing inspiration, pushing their ideas, they link their ideas to supporting constructs. As listeners become increasingly recognizable as contributors, their own constructs, complete with open-ended links built from a reflection of their ideas, allow allowing for further connecting ideas to attach to their information; new ideas are drawn to their information, supporting or, ideally extending their ideas. Their newly developed ideas become a foundation for ideas in the purely fluid soup of the Information Society.
The clustering of information, the quality of the supporting information, and the comparison of information allowed by clustering of concepts will build knowledge that comes to the real needs of the world, knowledge useful for the the true aims of activism.
Links and tags can be created externally for a developed document as the document comes to rest somewhere in the cytoplasm of the Information Society, typically as a blog entry or in a forum discussion thread. Information gleaned from the document, such as the originating information the ideas were built on; the physical source it was derived from; the author; his references; and an aggregate of descriptive words chosen from the text can create the basis of linking profile. Sophisticated linking constructs built from these clues can be used by server-based algorithms to make meaningful connections joining differing information sources, creating new and previously unimagined idea relationships leading to potentially valuable discussion and conceptual alliances.
Algorithms have been developed to find key-word matches in the document to create links to other information sources. But, these algorithms presently cannot recognize the distilled ideas behind the developed concept; they are unable to aggregate the links into meaningful joinings of documents. Corporations are uninterested in aggregating information concepts; commercial marketing only justifies the flow of separate unrelated and often inaccurate information presented with no means for comparison, nor meaningful dialog. Corporate developed information links occupy the Information Society, but provide no useful contribution.
These after-the-fact links are formed externally by algorithms, hence they controlled by the algorithms, rather than allowing the author of the ideas to create a meaningful reflection of this thoughts with which to encourage idea-linking. External, after-the-fact, linking of concepts by corporations can be ruthless: algorithms created by the Google search engine, for instance, pull thoughts and insights towards commercial products, often irrelevantly. They are unsophisticated and inaccurate because they cannot be aware of (nor would they care about) the author's original inspiration behind his thoughts.
As original ideas expand further outwards into the cytoplasm of the Information Society, the technology needs to focus inward towards the inspiration process. As people increasingly join as contributors, after having been listeners, their ideas become increasingly sophisticated. As they increase the volume of their information, they improve its quality. As both the quality and the volume increase, more time is necessarily spent in the management of their information constructs. Hence, a pressing need for algorithms at the personal and community levels. Linking algorithms now need to be distributed to all the Information Society contributors, just as the original networking services technology was transferred from the monopolistic corporations to the world's people.
"I have a thought, this is where the thought came from, these sources contributed to the thought, or support it" --this is the author controlled linking.
By adding tags (really keywords) the author can allow the his ideas in this document to mix with concurrent documents, probably from other authors, in the immediate environment: the soup.
Since no two documents reflecting original ideas will have the exact same profile of ideas, similar closely linked documents will have differing linking information; they will pull to them diverse linking documents, creating clusters of ideas that blend, in multi-dimensional space, to other clusters of ideas, just as colors blend in a spectrum.
These floating clusters, meta-information constructs, have to originate from somewhere. They may develop in a discussion environment, for instance, where each idea is proposed in the form of a response to some other idea. Here, the discussion environment provides a scaffolded construction area based on commonly accepted ideas thought development. The resulting ideas developed here in the scaffolded environment can separate from the scaffolded environment to join conceptual idea clusters, with the benefit of sophisticated linking constructs. The ideas can float away from the scaffolding of the discussion forum into an entirely different, nebulous architecture. This architecture is multi-dimensional; it is more like a cytoplasm than a discussion environment or a book shelf; it is more like a mass of floating dandelion seeds than a ship's dry dock.
The entry point into the atmosphere in which all the clustered knowledge floats--really a cytoplasm of the Information Society--is really a guiding overlay for the joined concepts: it is a narration. Ideally, a narration successfully joins a sequence of short stories, the clustered concepts, produced as teleplays where the narrator guides the listeners through the many knowledge constructs of linked concepts and ideas. Listeners join contributors as they find areas in which they are comfortable. They then can build knowledge from knowledge: meditating on concepts, creating inspiration from their pushed ideas, linking their constructs with supporting ideas. As listeners become contributors, they enter their ideas into the cytoplasm of information complete with open-ended links deliberately allowing for further connecting ideas to attach to their information, and ideas to be created extending theirs.
The clustering of information, the quality of the supporting information, and the comparison of information allowed by clustering of concepts will build knowledge that comes to the real needs of the world, knowledge useful for the the true aims of activism.
Links and tags can be created externally, after the developed thought, the concept, comes to rest somewhere in the cytoplasm of the Information Society, typically as a blog entry or in a forum thread. Indicators useful for linking, such as the discussion that the document originally built on; the source, the author; his references; and an aggregate of descriptive words chosen in the text can create the basis of linking information. Sophisticated linking constructs built from these clues can be used to make meaningful connections between information sources, creating new and previously unimagined connections leading to potentially valuable discussion and conceptual alliances.
Algorithms have been developed to find key-word matches in the document to create links to other information sources, but these algorithms presently cannot recognize the distilled ideas behind the developed concept. They are unable to aggregate the links into meaningful joinings of documents. Corporations are uninterested in aggregating information concepts; commercial marketing supports the flow of separate unrelated and often inaccurate information constructs presented with no means for comparison, nor meaningful dialog.
