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1...There is a problem that the anchoring system conflicts with SDS
2...Henry's objective to review original content could be applied to SDS
3...Henry might consider collaborating with Joe on contributing to
4...This could be a good topic for Fleabyte, i.e., how do tools that
CONTACTS
0201 - Bootstrap Institute O-00000735 0501
020101 - Mr. Henry van Eyken; Webmaster
0202 - Bootstrap Institute O-00000735 0101
020201 - Mr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.
SUBJECTS
Fleabyte Professional Journal on Augmenting Intelligence Henry Write
Magazines Advertise SDS Journalism Fleabyte Education Spreads Word O
Fleabyte Professional Journal on Augmenting Intelligence Henry Write
1005 -
1005 - ..
1006 - Summary/Objective
1007 -
100701 - Follow up ref SDS 28 0000, ref SDS 27 IR6V.
100702 -
100703 - Henry requests support from circle of advocates on considerations for
100704 - continuing publication of Fleabyte for civic journalism that drives
100705 - self-governance, ref SDS 0 UR4P, and based on augmented thinking.
100706 - ref SDS 0 8F8H Fleabyte would offer analysis of original content
100707 - using methods of summary that apply pyramidal writing, ref SDS 0 UR8V
100708 - to aid comprehension, which Henry seems to describe as 'good reading."
100709 - ref SDS 0 UR7T Review shows Professor Ransdell might be a good
100710 - contributor to Fleabyte for articles on augmented thinking.
100711 - ref SDS 0 HS6O Henry explains traditional practice to aid reading
100712 - comprehension by reading books twice and writing analysis, ref SDS 0
100713 - K98T, which can be complemented by SDS methods of triangulation.
100714 - ref SDS 0 3N9G Jack Park supports Henry's goals,and recommends
100715 - weblogs for a far reaching medium to make Fleabyte a powerful voice.
100716 - ref SDS 0 W83F Eugene Kim supports Jack's call for weblogs, and
100717 - proposes using existing tools for editorial management of the Fleabyte
100718 - goal for civic journalism. ref SDS 0 RN3M Peter Yim offers web
100719 - hosting support for Fleabyte. ref SDS 0 U29O
100720 -
100721 - [On 050111 Henry responds to circle of advocates. ref SDS 29
100722 - UK5M
100724 - ..
100725 - [On 050111 letter welcomes support for Fleabyte. ref SDS 29
100726 - S49F
100728 - ..
100729 - [On 050112 Henry considers ideas and challenges on technical
100730 - support for the Fleabute online journal. ref SDS 30 0001
100732 - ..
100733 - [On 050112 Henry explains staffing requirements to run an
100734 - online journal. ref SDS 30 3V4T
100736 - ..
100737 - [On 050112 goal of Fleabyte online civic journalism advance
100738 - Doug Engelbart's ideas on ABC improvement for augmented
100739 - thinking. ref SDS 30 OE9N
100741 - ..
100742 - [On 050113 letter to Henry describes advance from information
100743 - to a culture of knowledge. ref SDS 31 XV5J
100745 - ..
100746 - [On 050115 Jack comments Peirce's semiotics holds that learning
100747 - is deeper than using experience to refine the "truth" of
100748 - knowledge. ref SDS 32 MO7M Jack further notes SDS support for
100749 - context management; he complains discussion on future of
100750 - Fleabyte has "morphed" into discussing the future of POIMS,
100751 - ref SDS 32 EI4X; he indicates SDS fits Fleabyte requirements
100752 - and objects that SDS does not meet goals for open source.
100753 - ref SDS 32 EI5T
100755 - ..
100756 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps toward
100757 - publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
100758 -
100759 -
100760 -
100761 -
100762 -
100763 -
100765 - ..
1008 -
1009 -
1010 - Progress
1011 -
101101 - On 041221 called and discussed with Henry reviewing SDS in his online
101102 - journal, Fleabyte, based on support for "intelligence," ref SDS 28
101103 - X54M, shown by history of application to technology development,
101104 - contract management, and health care. ref SDS 28 X56N
101106 - ..
101107 - A letter to Henry confirmed understandings, ref DIP 1 0001, and
101108 - submitted the recent filing of an ASB at a leading aerospace company
101109 - demonstrating the scope for a standard on organizational memory.
101110 - ref SDS 28 Y88I
101112 - ..
101113 - Today, received a copy of a letter, ref DRT 1 0001, to Doug Engelbart
101114 - with copies to others, ref DRT 1 00W3, who have worked with Henry and
101115 - Doug on the Fleabyte initiative, particularly during the 2000 period
101116 - following Doug's Colloquium at Stanford.
101117 -
101118 - [On 050111 commend Henry's initiative and circle of advocates
101119 - contributing to support Fleabyte. ref SDS 29 S49F
101121 - ..
101122 - Henry says....
101123 -
101124 - 1. Please, take a quick look at the latest Fleabyte page...
101125 -
101126 - http://www.fleabyte.org
101127 -
101128 - .... ref DRT 1 0001
101129 -
101130 - [On 050214 Henry publishes revision that sets a manifesto
101131 - for Fleabyte to publish supporting civic journalism.
101132 - ref SDS 36 P65G
101134 - ..
101135 - 2. You may first notice that the web magazine has not been touched
101136 - since January 2003. You may further notice that it concerns
101137 - digital augmentation of the human intellect ("thinking with
101138 - computers") and do so to a social purpose (Literacy.
101139 - Computency. Both are needed for the proper functioning of an
101140 - environmentally healthy, prosperous, democratic society.),
101141 - ref DRT 1 TQ6G
101143 - ..
101144 - Joe Ransdell may be a willing contributor, per below. ref SDS 0 X27J
101146 - ..
101147 - Henry continues...
101148 -
101149 - 3. Persusing the page you'll find it divided into two main
101150 - sections named "First off" and "Reflections." You will also
101151 - find that we consider the editorial content as open, i.e. free
101152 - for the taking, but with the expectation the source is credited
101153 - as indeed Fleabyte credits all its sources doubly: publications
101154 - as well as authors. ref DRT 1 RS6N
101155 -
101156 -
101157 -
101158 -
1012 -
SUBJECTS
Click Step Purple Numbers Navigate with Precision Access in Knowledg
Fleabyte Fits SDS Support for Journalism of Precision Access Click S
1304 -
130501 - ..
130502 - Click Step Purple Numbers Navigate with Precision Access
130503 - Precision Access in Knowledge Space Augments Intelligence
130504 -
130505 - 4. You may also quickly recognize a small technical contribution
130506 - to internet journalism called "click-step." Clicking on either
130507 - up or down arrow you will quickly step from headline to
130508 - headline, a feature that permits you to move faster through the
130509 - page than scrolling by either mousing a slider or turning a
130510 - mouse wheel. ref DRT 1 008K (You may find an elaboration of
130511 - this feature by turning to...
130512 -
130513 - http://www.fleabyte.org/exp-1.html
130515 - ..
130516 - 5. When we publish an article on the front page, we place it at
130517 - the same time in an achive. For the contents of that archive,
130518 - click on "contents" in the menu bar. On next going to any
130519 - article, you will find its paragraphs marked with purple
130520 - numbers. Maybe not the best choice of purple number system,
130521 - but for now let this be an issue we might address later.
130522 - ref DRT 1 LT8J
130524 - ..
130525 - Click step and purple numbers position Fleabyte support for civic
130526 - journalism on a path toward organizational memory with precision
130527 - access for working intelligently. This fits the model of SDS support
130528 - for journalism set out in POIMS. ref OF 5 1261
130530 - ..
130531 - There is a problem that the anchoring system conflicts with SDS
130532 - formats, but that may be correctable. It is easy to bring an article
130533 - into SDS and add anchors in the right format for navigating.
130535 - ..
130536 - Henry continues...
130537 -
130538 - 6. Now that you have seen some aspects of Fleabyte we might turn
130539 - to some features that regular readers would only grow conscious
130540 - of over time. One, it attempts to stay within its scope:
130541 - digital augmentation to a limited set of world-wide social
130542 - objective and, two, it attempts to do so with a minimum of
130543 - words; but still enough words to maintain a story format for
130544 - even the shortest article because mere listings are like grains
130545 - of sand clogging the mental gears. In short, we want the
130546 - publication to be and remain interesting to busy people.
130547 - ref DRT 1 004P
130548 -
130549 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
130550 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
130551 -
130552 -
130553 -
130554 -
1306 -
SUBJECTS
Good Reading Writing Good Summary Avoids Errors First Impression Cur
1603 -
160401 - ..
160402 - Review Orginal Content Can Extend Professor Ransdell's Project
160403 - Reading from Writing Good Summaries Avoids Cursory Analysis
160404 -
160405 - 7. Fleabyte does not aim to publish original content, although it
160406 - will when warranted. We recognize that there hardly exists a
160407 - subject about which others are far more knowledgeable. Thus we
160408 - have adopted a mode of publishing the lead paragraphs of
160409 - articles that appear elsewhere on the Internet whence we link
160410 - to those original articles. Unlike most, notably the
160411 - commercial publications, we avoid duplication. What we would
160412 - like to do, though, is taking another step: to digest the
160413 - contents of relevant articles into summaries, but summaries
160414 - that make for good reading, in other words, not summaries like
160415 - those introducing technical articles or so-called "executive
160416 - summaries." ref DRT 1 006P
160418 - ..
160419 - "Good reading" has many dimensions. Writing that entertains the
160420 - reader is "good," and reading that imparts understanding in time to
160421 - save lives, time, and money is also good. Entertainment is strongly
160422 - positioned on the job under the aegis of "feel good" management,
160423 - discussed in POIMS, ref OF 4 KE1T, and citing the defintion developed
160424 - on 911123. ref SDS 1 1331 On 960103 value of entertainment to advance
160425 - on the job was reported at Intel. ref SDS 8 8409
160427 - ..
160428 - Henry makes a good point about linking summaries to original sources,
160429 - called out by industry standard, reported on 950721, ref SDS 6 1740,
160430 - and is implemented by the SDS design for intelligence support, set out
160431 - in NWO. ref OF 12 18UQ The Summary/Objective begins every SDS record
160432 - with a narrative that tells the story in a way that augments memory by
160433 - making connections with objectives, requirements and commitments, and
160434 - providing links into relevant details. This design reflects study in
160435 - cognitive science showing that people think through stories, reviewed
160436 - on 000307. ref SDS 15 0783
160437 -
160438 -
160439 -
1605 -
SUBJECTS
Fleabyte Journal Review Orginal Content Extend Professor Ransdell's
SDS Augments Human Mental Process for Combining Information with Tim
2104 -
210501 - ..
210502 - Ransdell Sets Issues Civic Journalism for Fleabyte
210503 - Review Orginal Content Extend Prof Ransdell's Analysis SDS
210504 - SDS Foundational Documents C Activity on Intelligence Support
210505 - Civic Journalism Public Policy Augment Intelligence C Activity
210506 -
210508 - ..
210509 - Henry's objective to review original content could be applied to SDS
210510 - foundational documents, per above, ref SDS 0 UR7T, and in accordance
210511 - with prior discussion on 041221. ref SDS 28 SR3Q For example, on
210512 - 000716 professor Joseph Ransdell commented in a letter that SDS and
210513 - Com Metrics solve a problem in philosophy on management,
210514 - communication, and thinking that has eluded discovery since the 17th
210515 - century. ref SDS 17 7838
210517 - ..
210518 - Like Henry, Joe is a retired teacher. Joe retains an institutional
210519 - base at Texas Tech university, reported on 000716. ref SDS 17 0012
210520 - His interest in semiotics has cogency to Henry's work in augmented
210521 - thinking, reported today, see above. ref SDS 0 UR3S Joe's background
210522 - and contact information is on his web site....
210523 -
210524 - http://members.door.net/arisbe/homepage/ransdell.htm
210526 - ..
210527 - Henry might consider collaborating with Joe on contributing to
210528 - Fleabyte based on extensive analysis of Communication Metrics, which
210529 - Joe planned to further extend, as set out in Joe's letter on 000722.
210530 - ref SDS 21 0005 Could Joe flesh out the 17th century problem he posed
210531 - on 000716, and explain in what way SDS solves that problem. How does
210532 - this relate to augmented thinking based on Peirce's work in semiotics,
210533 - which was previously considered at SRI by Professor Mary Keeler, who
210534 - was introduced by Jack Park on 000518. ref SDS 16 8439
210535 -
210536 - [On 050118 Henry van Eykan notices significant distance
210537 - between conventional meeting minutes, and a new way of
210538 - working with SDS that enables intelligence support that
210539 - enables a patient advocate role, which Fleabyte can explore
210540 - with civic journalism. ref SDS 33 MF7Y
210542 - ..
210543 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
210544 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
210545 -
210547 - ..
210548 - Joe's letters in 2000 raise fascinating questions that could engage
210549 - a Fleabyte audience, quite apart from SDS....
210550 -
210551 - 1. Coherent theory of human thought defined in POIMS,
210552 - ref OF 3 0367, is the foundation for a theory of management
210553 - and communication that has escaped discovery since the 17th
210554 - century, noted by Professor Ransdell in a letter on 000716,
210555 - ref SDS 17 7838, and supports Doug Engelbart's call on
210556 - 000307 for a definition of knowledge that enables
210557 - technology to augment intelligence. ref SDS 15 4820
210559 - ..
210560 - 2. Enterprise managed with the process of scientific research,
210561 - can therefore become more "intelligent," proposed in Joe's
210562 - letter on 000715, and reviewed on 000716, ref SDS 17 459V,
210563 - as set out in POIMS? ref OF 6 6649
210565 - ..
210566 - 3. Management theory from Joe's philosophical inquiry seems
210567 - supported by practical concerns of people on the job,
210568 - reported by Roy Roebuck, reviewed on 020217, ref SDS 25
210569 - 1332, which leads to common dynamics of communication that
210570 - cause continual failure in business and government,
210571 - ref SDS 25 9360, and which is significantly redressed by
210572 - SDS. ref SDS 25 3105
210574 - ..
210575 - Secrecy spawned by fear of discovery that harms national
210576 - security, organizational and individual advantage, requires
210577 - balance against benefits of discovery that brings stronger
210578 - security, improved understanding for advancing personal and
210579 - organizational interests, reviewed by Joe on 000717 as
210580 - major challenge to SDS methodology, ref SDS 18 0006, and
210581 - discussed in POIMS. ref OF 4 V8P1
210583 - ..
210584 - 4. Litteracy and orality have strengths and weaknesses,
210585 - commonly described as "failed listening," which can be
210586 - redressed by technology under POIMS requirements, cited in
210587 - Joe's letter received on 000720. ref SDS 19 0540
210589 - ..
210590 - 5. SDS improves understanding of communication with links to
210591 - context, reported in Joe's letter on 000717, ref SDS 18
210592 - 4O61, and cited again in Professor Ransdell's letter on
210593 - 000721 describing SDS structure that augments intelligence
210594 - that draws people into analysis, which makes communication
210595 - an integral dimension of human thought. ref SDS 20 E2FY
210597 - ..
210598 - 6. Management communication, e.g., meetings, discussion, and
210599 - dialog present major opportunity to improve productivity by
210600 - augmenting intelligence, reviewed by professor Ransdell on
210601 - 000720. ref SDS 19 4962
210603 - ..
210604 - 7. Modern society needs better balance between orality and
210605 - literacy in order to cope with expanding complexity that
210606 - compounds errors of meaning drift; on 000720 Professor
210607 - Ransdell reviews original analysis by Plato, ref SDS 19
210608 - 0540, and commends SDS support for traceability to original
210609 - sources that expands span of attention context, and
210610 - maintains accuracy, helping to solve problem of "telephone
210611 - game" that causes meaning drift, ref SDS 19 2685, as
210612 - further explained in POIMS. ref OF 4 049O and ref OF 4 TW6O
210614 - ..
210615 - 8. Feedback is a critical component of accuracy and discovery
210616 - in communcation cited by Professor Ransdell in a letter on
210617 - 000721, ref SDS 20 5I13, and is therefore essential for
210618 - technology that enables intelligence support, set out in
210619 - POIMS, ref OF 3 0367, despite heavy resistance from
210620 - everybody, explained in NWO. ref OF 13 2670 On 000722
210621 - Joe's letter provides analysis showing that feedback is
210622 - resisted for raising questions that disrupt taking action,
210623 - which annoys human drive to survive by spontaneous response
210624 - based on situational awareness. ref SDS 21 6934
210626 - ..
210627 - 9. Controlled analytic dialog developed by Socretes to achieve
210628 - deeper understanding, commonly called "wisdom," aligns with
210629 - objectives for collaboration and stronger coordination in
210630 - the modern era, cited in Joe's letter on 000722.
210631 - ref SDS 21 XN5H This opens discussion in Fleabyte on
210632 - distinctions between....
210634 - ..
210635 - • data
210636 - • information
210637 - • knowledge
210638 - • wisdom
210639 - • vision
210640 -
210641 - ....reviewed in NWO, ref OF 11 XF6F, and discussed with
210642 - Morris on 960228. ref SDS 9 0022
210644 - ..
210645 - 10. Improvements to SDS foundational documents offered by Joe
210646 - to meet requirements for publication, reported on 000724.
210647 - ref SDS 22 1974
210649 - ..
210650 - 11. Communciation engine of civilization formulating and
210651 - extending lessons learned across generations, cited by
210652 - Professor Ransdell in a letter on 000724. ref SDS 22 8O4J
210654 - ..
210655 - 12. Creativity and discovery spawned from communication,
210656 - analysis, experience, trial, error, corrections, discussed
210657 - by Professor Ransdell on 000724. ref SDS 22 1978
210659 - ..
210660 - 13. Peirce's philosophy of semiotics supports the role of truth
210661 - in logical analysis, supported by SDS design for accuracy
210662 - based on the scope of intelligence support defined in NWO,
210663 - calling for timely, precision access, ref OF 12 PX6J, and
210664 - triangulation, ref OF 12 186R, and further reviewed by
210665 - Professor Ransdell in the first part of a planned lengthier
210666 - review reported on 000729. ref SDS 23 0001
210668 - ..
210669 - 14. Fleabyte could go a long way toward supporting Doug
210670 - Engelbart's "c" type activity, reviewed on 991222,
210671 - ref SDS 14 N65J, by collaborating with Professor Ransdell
210672 - and others on extending work the professor began in July of
210673 - 2000.
210674 -
210675 -
210676 -
210677 -
210678 -
210679 -
210680 -
2107 -
SUBJECTS
Good Reading Writing Good Summary Avoids Errors First Impression Cur
Pyramidal Writing Implements Goals for Summary Linked to Detail
Good Reading Writing Good Summary Avoids Errors First Impression Cur
Pyramidal Writing Implements Goals for Summary Linked to Detail
2506 -
250701 - ..
250702 - Pyramidal Writing Implements Goals for Summary Linked to Detail
250703 -
250704 -
250705 - Henry continues...
250706 -
250707 - 8. To make myself clearer, allow me to use a technical term:
250708 - pyramidal writing. Pyramidal writing is when a journalist
250709 - presents the essence of a story in a lead paragraph. Next, he
250710 - will elaborate a bit in some subsequent paragraphs and then, he
250711 - will continue to elaborate further in subsequent paragraphs.
250712 - Ideally, the very essence of the story is captured in the
250713 - headline, but headlines, having been written by someone else,
250714 - are not infrequently somewhat misleading.
250716 - ..
250717 - 9. Fleabyte aims to present tops of pyramids but with sufficient
250718 - depth to maintain good contextual linkage with the
250719 - publication's objectives. Consider it a form of civic
250720 - journalism.
250721 -
250722 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
250723 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
250724 -
250725 -
250726 -
2508 -
SUBJECTS
Civic Journalism Define Aids Decisions for Self-governing
2603 -
260401 - ..
260402 - Augmented Thinking with Technology Aids Civic Journalism
260403 - Civic Journalism Define Aids Decisions for Self-governing
260404 -
260405 - 10. What is civic journalism? I'll take the Fleabyte approach to
260406 - practicing what I just preached: copy a few paragraphs from
260407 - elsewhere on the Internet:
260409 - ..
260410 - 11. "What makes civic journalism different from every-day good
260411 - journalism? Civic journalism is everything that good journalism
260412 - is -- but it's also a bit more.
260413 -
260414 - [On 050118 Henry van Eykan notices significant distance
260415 - between conventional meeting minutes, and a new way of
260416 - working with SDS that enables intelligence support that
260417 - enables a patient advocate role, which Fleabyte can explore
260418 - with civic journalism. ref SDS 33 MF7Y
260420 - ..
260421 - 12. "Civic journalism is both an attitude and a set of tools. The
260422 - attitude is an affirmation that journalists have an obligation
260423 - -- a constitutionally protected obligation -- to give readers
260424 - and viewers the news and information they need to make
260425 - decisions in a self-governing society. The emerging tools try
260426 - to help readers and viewers see how they can be active
260427 - participants, not only in building news coverage, but also in
260428 - building their communities.
260429 -
260430 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
260431 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
260433 - ..
260434 - Henry sets an agenda earlier in his letter, for "augmented thinking,"
260435 - as one way for technology to support civic journalism. ref SDS 0 UR3S
260437 - ..
260438 - Journalism is one of the many crafts SDS integrates into a new way of
260439 - workng "intelligently," as set out in POIMS. ref OF 5 1261
260441 - ..
260442 - This could be a good topic for Fleabyte, i.e., how do tools that
260443 - augment intelligence aid journalism?
260444 -
260445 - [On 050112 Henry cites Doug Engelbart's 1992 paper on Groupware
260446 - for a vision of technology that enables an ABC method of
260447 - continual improvement based on a model of collective IQ that
260448 - aids collaboration with intelligence support called CODIAK.
260449 - ref SDS 30 OE9N
260450 -
260451 -
260453 - ..
260454 - Henry continues...
260455 -
260456 - 13. "Simply raising an alarm or spotlighting an injustice, which is
260457 - traditional journalism, is not enough. Citizens these days
260458 - need more help. They need to see some ways they play a role,
260459 - have a voice, or make a difference -- some ways they can
260460 - reclaim their participation in civic life. Citizen
260461 - participation, therefore, is a defining feature of civic
260462 - journalism. For journalists, citizens help them do better
260463 - journalism. And citizens, once invited and once engaged in a
260464 - menu of opportunities, seem to be developing a civic appetite."
260465 - (Full article here:
260466 -
260467 - http://www.pewcenter.org/doingcj/pubs/pubs_toolbox_intro.html
260469 - ..
260470 - There is a plethora of journalists editorilizing on how people should
260471 - exercise their voice through voting, which seems like the core
260472 - responsibility of citizenship, i.e., civics. Henry can help by
260473 - explaining additional participation in government beyond being
260474 - vigilent in oversight through journalism.
260476 - ..
260477 - Henry continues...
260478 -
260479 - 14. Clearly, Fleabyte is still falling far short of the practice of
260480 - good civil journalism. In part we are hindered by much
260481 - literature only being available in print format. We would be
260482 - far more efficient if we could simply extract from electronic
260483 - text and digest material from there. This would be especially
260484 - helpful in doing book reviews. In part we are hindered by the
260485 - absence of purple numbers in our sources. Such numbers would
260486 - permit us to direct reader attention to specific paragraphs in
260487 - our sources. (It is said that publishers don't like such aids
260488 - because they want readers to encounter all the advertisements.)
260490 - ..
260491 - Why does printed material hinder analysis of printed material?
260493 - ..
260494 - A lot of printed material is reviewed in SDS, e.g., Grove's book on
260495 - 980307. ref SDS 11 0001 Kissinger's book on 940609, ref SDS 2 4238,
260496 - McNamara's book on 950417. ref SDS 5 5872 Review is easier when
260497 - material is online, but analysis of traditional media in books,
260498 - movies, television commentary, meetings, and calls cannot wait for a
260499 - perfect solution.
260501 - ..
260502 - Henry continues...
260503 -
260504 - 15. In part we are hindered by lack of funds: we cannot purchase
260505 - all the books we wish to peruse or subscribe to newspapers and
260506 - journals that restrict access to paying subscribers.
260507 -
260508 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
260509 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
260511 - ..
260512 - 16. In part we are hindered by our inability to make good use of
260513 - available technologies to permit reader participation AND do so
260514 - in a way to make every word count, to keep reader contributions
260515 - as brief as possible (while maintaining story format).
260516 -
260517 -
260518 -
260519 -
2606 -
SUBJECTS
Links SDS Foundational Documents to Sources for References in Corres
2703 -
270401 - ..
270402 - References to SDS Foundational Documents Need Links to Sources
270403 -
270404 - 17. Reader participation calls for technologies such as Doug
270405 - Engelbart's "Augment" co-operative tools and/or Wiki, etc.
270406 - Digesting stored or otherwise referenced materials may be best
270407 - done with the aid of a good search engine and a tool such as
270408 - Rod Welch's POIMS technology for optimizing an organization's
270409 - memory.
270411 - ..
270412 - Henry cites POIMS support for organizational memory, following up on
270413 - planning in the call that occurred on 041221, ref SDS 28 JJ65, and
270414 - fits the model of retail advertising through email, planned on 040927.
270415 - ref SDS 26 VI8W Typically, references are more effective when linked
270416 - to original sources that explain definitions.
270417 -
270418 - [On 050115 Henry proposes applying SDS support for organizatioal
270419 - memory to aid journalism with editorial memory. ref SDS 32 5F5R
270421 - ..
270422 - Henry continues...
270423 -
270424 - 18. Clearly, for Fleabyte to work best we need management,
270425 - technical expertise, and appropriate journalistic expertise.
270426 - This is not to say that Fleabyte cannot do a creditable job
270427 - when run by one person. I myself did so for several years
270428 - running, but it did become exceedingly tiring. Hence the fact
270429 - we have not continued the effort since January of 2003.
270431 - ..
270432 - 19. I am 77 years of age now and no longer able to do what I did
270433 - before. That leaves the question, should I or should I not
270434 - continue to maintain the Fleabyte website? Should we just give
270435 - up? I would very much like your responses to this question.
270436 -
270437 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
270438 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
270440 - ..
270441 - 20. I also wonder whether this could be a suitable topic for
270442 - discussion on the Yak forum.
270443 -
270445 - ..
270446 - Received ref DRT 3 0001 from Henry with additional explanation of
270447 - goals and background on starting up Fleabyte.
270448 -
270449 - 1. Allow me to elaborate a bit more even though it should be
270450 - obvious that the continuation of the kind of web publishing I
270451 - have in mind can most profitable use - ans demonstrate - the
270452 - kind of thinking and creations I know Doug and his friends for.
270453 - It looks for cooperative tools and for organizational tools.
270454 - Not so obvious is that it also look for evaluative skills and
270455 - tools that we and those we address may use in arriving at
270456 - better judgments so as to eventually achieve a functional
270457 - democracy which we hope will be found good enough to spread
270458 - worldwide. ref DRT 3 0001
270459 -
270460 - [On 050112 Henry clarifies purpose and goal of Fleabyte
270461 - civic journalism to support Doug Engelbart's ideas for ABC
270462 - continual improvement; Henry positions Fleabyte to improve
270463 - education as part of Doug's "C" activity. ref SDS 30 EH4M
270465 - ..
270466 - 2. I do a fair amount of reading of literature relating to civics.
270467 - I should hasten to add that to me civics as anything from
270468 - maintaining personal mental and physical health, through
270469 - raising children and educating them, through attempting to
270470 - improve our grasp of what being human is, to co-operation and
270471 - democracy. ref DRT 3 RM6L
270473 - ..
270474 - To give you an idea, my reading includes books on aspects of
270475 - psychology and neuroscience and such "applications" as found in
270476 - Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel", Bloom's "Global Brain,"
270477 - Ridley's "The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the
270478 - Evolution of Cooperation," Seabright's "The Company of
270479 - Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life," Howe's "Genius
270480 - Explained" (in short: diligent practice, practic, practice),
270481 - just to name a few. ref DRT 3 547I
270482 -
270484 - ..
270485 - Ingenuity Gap by Homer-Dixon Illustrates Fleabyte Work Product
270486 -
270487 - I believe these are the kind of works that bear the kind of
270488 - well-received "biased reviews" I wrote about Homer-Dixon's "The
270489 - Ingenuity Gap"...
270491 - ..
270492 - http://www.fleabyte.org/eic-6.html
270493 -
270494 - [On 050208 Henry reports Homer-Dixon considering
270495 - support for Fleabyte civic journalism. ref SDS 35 UA7N
270496 -
270497 - [On 050214 Henry submits article that proposes Fleabyte
270498 - civic journalism to help solve ingenuity gap based on
270499 - Doug Engelbart's ideas for CODIAK. ref SDS 36 01GA
270500 -
270501 - - and Bork's "Coercing virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges -
270503 - ..
270504 - http://www.fleabyte.org/eic-17.html
270506 - ..
270507 - Those review-essays have been well received.
270509 - ..
270510 - There is a review of Homer-Dixon's book at....
270511 -
270512 - http://www.homerdixon.com/popular.html
270513 -
270514 -
270515 -
2706 -
SUBJECTS
New Way Thinking Learning Write Things Down Link Things Up Read Book
Organizational Memory Scribe Note Taker Meeting Minutes Executive Ai
Fluor Daniel, Hank Hatch
Literacy Read NWO 3 Times to Study What Works for Adding Intelligenc
New World Order needs old time religion
Hatch Comments on Communication Metrics
4408 -
440901 - ..
440902 - New Way Thinking Learning Write Things Down Link Things Up
440903 - Read Twice Book Analysis Lessons Leaned Improve Comprehension
440904 - Comprehension Improved Read Book Twice Analysis Lessons Leaned
440905 - Literacy Improve Comprehension Read Book Twice Analyse Lessons
440906 -
440907 - Follow up ref SDS 10 5592, ref SDS 3 4995.
440908 -
440909 - 3. A year after publishing the review of Homer-Dixon's book the
440910 - author sent me an email telling me that he had just reread the
440911 - review and that I was one of the few people who understood what
440912 - he was writing about. Well, if so then this is because I put a
440913 - lot more time into a review than a typical reviewer does. For
440914 - one thing I read a book twice in full and afterward go
440915 - repeatedly over many parts that strike me as most significant.
440916 - What I want to achieve with my review is drawing valuable
440917 - lessons from those who have studied their subject matter
440918 - carefully and pass on these lessons to readers of that
440919 - developing encyclopedia of civics that I perceive Fleabyte
440920 - should become. ref DRT 3 R355
440921 -
440922 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
440923 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
440925 - ..
440926 - Henry's practice of reading things twice for comprehension helps solve
440927 - the common dilemma when people worry and complain they....
440928 -
440929 - Don't get it!!!
440930 -
440931 - ..., cited by Andy Grove in his book "Only the Paranoid Survive,"
440932 - reviewed on 980307. ref SDS 12 GW7H, and, also, leads to Doug
440933 - Engelbart's goal for a new way of thinking and working, reported on
440934 - 991222, ref SDS 14 3696, that accomplishes the Toffler's call for
440935 - reengineering education with continual learning, cited on 950911.
440936 - ref SDS 7 2222
440938 - ..
440939 - Traditional practice of reading a book twice and adding analysis
440940 - increases comprehension that helps solve the problem of declining
440941 - literacy caused by cultural forces from time on the job, reported on
440942 - 991108. ref SDS 13 7380 General Hatch applied Henry's method by
440943 - reading NWO three (3) times in order to grasp ideas for augmenting
440944 - intelligence by converting new realities into opportunities in a new
440945 - world order, reported on 960403. ref SDS 10 5592
440947 - ..
440948 - This goal is further supported by Communication Metrics, reported on
440949 - 950327, ref SDS 4 0001, based on analysis in the record on 950204
440950 - showing traditional methods of study are aided by SDS that integrates
440951 - and synthesizes reading and writing with actual experience to make
440952 - literacy a continual learning practice. ref SDS 3 C257
440954 - ..
440955 - SDS supports the common "metric" of accuracy
440956 - to understand correlations, implications, and nuance, explained in the
440957 - record on 950204. ref SDS 3 5468 Comprehension is strengthened by
440958 - both reading and writing about books, and other information streams in
440959 - articles, memos, letters, reports, meetings, calls, and conversations
440960 - to triangulate accuracy with links from related experience. This
440961 - significantly expands span of attention for applying writing in books
440962 - and other sources to objectives, requirements and commitments, as set
440963 - out in POIMS. ref OF 7 3742 As illustrated by this record, adding
440964 - links for alignment entails constant review and integration that makes
440965 - written material an integral, active dimension of daily decisions.
440966 -
440967 -
440968 -
440969 -
440970 -
440971 -
4410 -
SUBJECTS
Education Expand to Civics Raising Children Good Citizenship
4503 -
450401 - ..
450402 - Education Expand to Civics Raising Children Good Citizenship
450403 -
450404 - I have felt for more than two decades that education should be
450405 - more than comprising the four R's, arts, and science (or arts
450406 - _versus_ science, as many have it). It should include an
450407 - appropriate measure of civics (yes, young adults should learn
450408 - about raising children and about good citizenship). ref DRT 3
450409 - D54F
450410 -
450411 -
450412 -
4505 -
SUBJECTS
Pew Research Center Source Model for Fleabyte
4603 -
460401 - ..
460402 - Pew Research Center Source Model for Fleabyte
460403 -
460404 - 4. One source of information for Fleabyte is the PEW collection of
460405 - websites under the aegis of
460406 -
460407 - http://www.pewtrusts.com.
460409 - ..
460410 - They provide support for mavellous work, strongly centered on
460411 - America. They now support Pew Research Center for the People &
460412 - the Press, the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the Pew
460413 - Center on Global Climate Change, the Pew Center For Civic
460414 - Journalism, the Pew-Partnership for Civic Change; in short, the
460415 - kind of things that are not altogether different in sentiment
460416 - than Doug's frontier teams of scientists that are part of
460417 - organizational B- and C-efforts. ref DRT 3 K54M
460419 - ..
460420 - 5. Other sources concern adult education and lifelong learning.
460421 - After all, we are concerned with both the tool system and the
460422 - human system. ref DRT 3 E65N Here I ran across some
460423 - interesting work done at MIT: augmenting personal memory, see
460424 -
460425 - web.media.mit.edu/~vemuri/wwit/wwit-overview.html .
460427 - ..
460428 - 6. Well, I'll stop here. I should have written enough to convince
460429 - you that I am working Fleabyte almost fully in the spirit of
460430 - what Doug has been talking about a long time, but it is
460431 - presented in the format publicly accessible, developing
460432 - encyclopedia of civics, one that involves recognition of human
460433 - nature, the move from competition to cooperation, learning and
460434 - augmentation of the human intellect over a lifetime.
460435 - ref DRT 3 4K6J
460437 - ..
460438 - 7. I believe this deserves full support, don't you? ref DRT 3 XL3H
460439 -
460440 - [On 050126 Henry reports to circle of advocates on steps
460441 - toward publishing Fleabyte. ref SDS 34 WI5M
460442 -
460443 -
460444 -
460445 -
460446 -
460447 -
460448 -
4605 -
SUBJECTS
Fleabyte Professional Journal Jack Park at SRI Supports on Augmentin
5103 -
510401 - ..
510402 - Jack Park Supports Henry's Plans to Resurrect Fleabyte
510403 -
510404 -
510405 - Received ref DRT 2 0001 from Jack Park responding to Henry's letter
510406 - dated 050109, shown above. ref SDS 0 8F8H
510407 -
510408 - 1. Many thanks for this. I had largely gotten sidetracked and
510409 - forgotten how much I really liked fleabyte.org. ref DRT 2 6U6F
510411 - ..
510412 - 2. I didn't recall the clever trick you did with HTML anchors.
510413 - That's just really cool! ref DRT 2 OU6J
510414 -
510415 - [On 050111 commend Henry's initiative and circle of
510416 - advocates contributing to support Fleabyte. ref SDS 29 S49F
510417 -
510418 - [On 050115 Jack comments Peirce's semiotics holds that
510419 - learning is deeper than using experience to refine the
510420 - "truth" of knowledge. ref SDS 32 MO7M Jack further notes
510421 - SDS support for context management; he complains discussion
510422 - on future of Fleabyte has "morphed" into discussing the
510423 - future of POIMS, ref SDS 32 EI4X; he indicates SDS fits
510424 - Fleabyte requirements and objects that SDS does not meet
510425 - goals for open source. ref SDS 32 EI5T
510426 -
510428 - ..
510429 - 3. It seems to me that you have a real and important open question
510430 - regarding the future of fleabyte.org. I really can recall the
510431 - day when I thought someone aged 40 was pretty old. Now, that
510432 - notion doesn't creep in till north of 90 years old. At 77,
510433 - you've got tons of years of productivity to toss at fleabyte if
510434 - you choose; at least, that would be my assessment. At age 60,
510435 - I'm the resident 'old fart' in my group here at SRI; it's
510436 - kind-of unnerving when people come into my office, sit down to
510437 - chat and I begin to realize that they might actually be looking
510438 - for wise answers. Shit! I never thought of myself as a sage.
510439 - ref DRT 2 SU6N
510441 - ..
510442 - 4. In almost every respect, fleabyte.org predates and correctly
510443 - anticipates weblogs. That would be how I see Fleabyte: a blog,
510444 - and a damned important one. ref DRT 2 NV8F Were I in your
510445 - shoes, I'd be inclined to pick up one of the popular blogging
510446 - tools, sortof like Tom Munnecke did -- see...
510447 -
510448 - http://www.munecke.com/blog
510449 -
510450 - [On 050112 Henry reports on investigating tools.
510451 - ref SDS 30 NH6G
510453 - ..
510454 - -- and map fleabyte content to it. Do so at fleabyte.org. This
510455 - would make editing and contributing easier. It also opens the
510456 - door for other contributors to log in and add content. My
510457 - friend Bernard Vatant did that at
510458 -
510459 - http://universimmedia.blogspot.com/
510460 -
510461 - ...and invited me and several others to contribute. So far,
510462 - Bernard and I are the only contributors.
510464 - ..
510465 - 5. I make that suggestion since I have focussed on the "amount of
510466 - effort" aspect of your inquiry. Reduce the amount of effort
510467 - required and fleabyte might turn into something you can
510468 - maintain without much effort. If hosting costs are an issue, I
510469 - think there are plenty of alternatives. I could even host it on
510470 - the box in my living room (running on a DSL line), but I'm not
510471 - sure that's a terribly reliable alternative. There must be
510472 - others. I'm sure that when traffic at my server grows beyond
510473 - some point, I'll be talking to Peter about hosting. I don't
510474 - really recall; maybe you are already hosted in a no-cost
510475 - situation, perhaps along with bootstrap.org. ref DRT 2 1Y9O
510477 - ..
510478 - 6. In any case, fleabyte.org should be resurrected and maintained.
510479 - ref DRT 2 CY5G
510480 -
510481 - [On 050111 Henry responds explaining Jack is a good source
510482 - for technical expertise. ref SDS 29 UK5M
510483 -
510484 - [On 050115 Jack comments Peirce's semiotics holds that
510485 - learning is deeper than using experience to refine the
510486 - "truth" of knowledge. ref SDS 32 MO7M Jack further notes
510487 - SDS support for POIMS requirements for context management
510488 - fit requirements for Fleabyte, and objects that SDS does
510489 - not meet source goals. ref SDS 32 EI4X and ref SDS 32 EI5T
510490 -
510491 -
510492 -
510493 -
510494 -
510495 -
5105 -
SUBJECTS
Proposal Do KM Using Existing Technology
Fleabyte Professional Journal Eugene Kim Supports Augmenting Intelli
5704 -
570501 - ..
570502 - Existing Tools Enable Fleabyte to Focus on Content
570503 - Eugene Kim Requests Clarification of Fleabyte Initiative
570504 -
570506 - ..
570507 - Received ref DRT 4 0001 from Eugene Kim responding to Henry's letter
570508 - dated 050109, shown above. ref SDS 0 8F8H
570509 -
570510 - 1. On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 05:04:15PM -0500, ref DRT 4 0001, Henry
570511 - K van Eyken wrote:
570513 - ..
570514 - > I believe this deserves full support, don't you? ref DRT 3
570515 - XL3H
570517 - ..
570518 - 2. What exactly are you asking for? I certainly support your
570519 - work. Jack has expressed the same, and I expect that everyone
570520 - else feels the same way. ref DRT 4 DJ6I
570522 - ..
570523 - 3. I think Jack's advice about blogging is very good. There are a
570524 - number of free hosting services, and there are folks in the
570525 - community (including me) who would be happy to help you get
570526 - started. Also, many of Doug's ideas are starting to creep into
570527 - those tools. For example, purple number plugins exist for
570528 - MovableType, blosxom, and WordPress, all of which are popular
570529 - blogging tools. Using these preexisting tools would enable you
570530 - to focus entirely on content, which is where I think your work
570531 - is most valuable. ref DRT 4 BK6N
570532 -
570533 - [On 050111 commend Henry's initiative and circle of
570534 - advocates contributing to support Fleabyte. ref SDS 29 S49F
570536 - ..
570537 - [On 050112 Henry reports on investigating tools.
570538 - ref SDS 30 NH6G
570540 - ..
570541 - [On 050112 Eugene offers web hosting support for Fleabyte,
570542 - and recommends that Henry focus on writing content, rather
570543 - than learning new tools. ref SDS 30 RN3M
570545 - ..
570546 - 4. Is there something more you're looking for? ref DRT 4 YK7N
570548 - ..
570549 - On 001126 Henry wrote a letter similar to the letter today asking
570550 - about tools that implement Doug Engelbart's ideas for a new way of
570551 - working intelligently. ref SDS 24 0001
570553 - ..
570554 - Like today, at that time Eugene recommended using existing tools,
570555 - ref SDS 24 T63N, and he set out some steps. ref SDS 24 4E3X
570556 -
570557 -
570558 -
570559 -
570560 -
570561 -
570562 -
570563 -
5706 -
SUBJECTS
Web Hosting Yim Peter CIM Engineering Offers Circle of Advocates Sup
5803 -
580401 - ..
580402 - Peter Yim Offers Web Hosting for Fleabyte
580403 -
580404 -
580405 - Received ref DRT 5 0001 from Eugene Kim responding to Henry's letter
580406 - dated 050109, shown above. ref SDS 0 8F8H
580407 -
580408 - 1. I agree with everything Jack says (possibly with the exception
580409 - of the part about being an "old f...". I believe we are all
580410 - young and vibrant, as age is better expressed in an attitude
580411 - than a number.), ref DRT 5 0001
580413 - ..
580414 - 2. As for hosting, Henry, you have my standing invitation to host
580415 - the fleabyte work on our servers. (I have no experience setting
580416 - up blogs yet, but if someone on this routing can do the
580417 - installation, ...) You are welcomed to put your site(s) onto
580418 - one of our servers any time. ref DRT 5 0J6I
580419 -
580420 - [On 050111 commend Henry's initiative and circle of
580421 - advocates contributing to support Fleabyte. ref SDS 29 S49F
580423 - ..
580424 - 3. Keep up the good work ... I still remember how excited I was,
580425 - some time back, when you told us Fleabyte had a great page rank
580426 - on Google. ref DRT 5 TJ6O
580428 - ..
580429 - 4. Nest wishes for the New Year, Henry! ref DRT 5 NJ7I
580430 -
580431 -
580432 -
580433 -
580434 -
580435 -
580436 -
580437 -
580438 -
580439 -
5805 -
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