Mark Bernstein

• Otlet
• Adler's Synopticon of the great books

• You must make choices
• You do not have full information
• Your choices may not always be free

• "You can't always get what you want, but you might be able to get what you need."

• Inheritance - super tags

• Host went extinct
• David Durant

• Org-mode - wrth taking a look
• Extensible user interface
  • Terrifically powerful idea!
• Take an editor and change it's commands
• software as cult

• Enabled inter-linked essays
• "Architectonic writing"
  • A writing space in the map
  • Pick it up and move it!
• Writing spaces have a title, and can contain writing space
  • Avoids automatic graph layout
  • Stays where you put it
• Avoids much of the "not work" of premature sense-making
  • Treat writing as something physical

• Stories
• "Petri-net based hypertext: Document structure with browsing semantics"

Agents

Standards can stifle experimentation

A cambrian explosion

• tiny screens!
  • 500x342
  • 80x24 character displays were common
• The ideas were a lot better than the screenshots

KMS: a distributing hypermedia systems for managing knowlege

• Card-based system - card metaphor
• No scrolling!

Card Sharks and Holy Scrollers

Intermedia

• VictorianWeb.org (context32)
  • Reading for english 32 class

Rhetoric:

Guide: Stretchtext

• concerned with replacement

twine writers: https://twinery.org/

Typed Links, Randy Trigg

• "Link types don't actually work"

Microcosm - stored links in an external file

Sculptural Hypertext:

Marshall - Aquanet - and Frank Shipman

• "A system to hold your ideas in place"
• Cathy Marshall - did a ton of research
• Trumpet-blast against formalism
• "Formality considered harmful"
• Instead of formal systems, build spatial hyperlinks, group things in space.
  • Spatial parser would come in and help organize / explain

Tinderbox was meant to be Tiny VIKI, but it turned into Tiny Aquanet

• Spatial hypertext is a wonderful idea
• "Can we talk about spatial hypertext?"
  • Diagrams - Gaudi
  • We thought this was gonna be super easy!
  • Maybe organic forms would be better than squares?

"pemature commitment is the enemy of all note-taking"

Good to know what didn't work and why.

• Thoughtful tools!

Open Hypertext Systems?

• microcosm