Woke up this morning around 3:45 with mind cranking along. Quit fighting it about 4:10 am. Here are the loose notes. Essentially this is about how to begin organizing the ideas and links on the first  page. I'll probably just capture the raw input here without too much editing. (Back to Supper with Richard)

Visual Navigation of Knowledge via Computers and Networks

>> I'm looking for metaphor(s) to apply & explain the ideas.

>> Timeline (develop a visual timeline to place the various bits and pieces into a chronological context)

sample ----

DATE	PRODUCT	DESCRIPTION	PERSON / ORG	URL	OTHER
1987	HyperCard	Stand alone hypermedia application	Brian Atkinson / Apple Computer

 
 
>> Re-order the original list

1. time
2. category / topic
3. interest
4. other ??

examples:
 

NAME	TOPICS	ORG	URL
Donna Cox	scientific visualization	NCSA
Steve Cisler	visual navigation, networked information discovery & retrieval (NIDR), digital libraries (DL)	Independent
Eric L. Morgan	hypercard, visual navigation, NIDR, DL	NCSU
Brewster Kahle	NIDR	The Internet Archives

 

>> Part or major theme here is how to take some or all of the earlier ideas and apply them in some way to next generation information navigation.

>> Is it possible to learn from the past?

>> With a list of / collection of ideas and products could we see some "new view"?

>> Why am I writing on paper and not on the key board?

>> Another resource: Fiction

would review of some of the ideas / notions in fiction serve any purpose?

As applied to the list of headers on the first page (a first cut):
 Storyspace -- 1.1, 1.2
 Inspiration -- 1.2, 1.3
 Stella -- 1.4
 Mindmapping -- 1.3
 Other Stuff -- need to be broken out and sorted better
 Instructional Tech Connections -- 2.0
 BLISS Symbols -- 4.0
 Memes -- 4.0, 3.0 ?
 Semiotics -- 3.0
 Info Navigation -- 1.0
 Glass Bead Game -- 1.3, 3.0
 Systematics -- 3.0

>> I need to map or link my connections among and between these ideas. The links have developed over time as I have dis-covered, un-covered, skimmed over, learned and un-learned about these ideas. (words are merging as I am writing too slow for grey cells.)

for example:
  Charles Peirce -- my intro to him in 1994 was through two researchers doing high quality imaging of C.P.'s work because he used an arcane notation system of tiny marks with colored inks to describe his "system." This caused me to read about C.P. and then lead to pragmatics and semiotics. Then I had a re-surgance of interest as a link from planning a workshop on Design which involved discussion about design and semiotics.

>> Odd how this feels like a journal exercise rather than a gathering of ideas from my distant past and recent past

>> Other Resources that I still recycle from:
  Victor Papanek's "Design for the Real World"
  Lawrence Halprin's "RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment" (my graphic)

>> Metaphors -- collect them, cite them,
(kind of like what Bruce Sterling does with "Dead Media" list.)
 examples:
 

Metaphor	Examples	Citations
Theater	1. computer at theatre   2. as applied to consciousness and the brain	1. Brenda Laurel   2. Bernard J. Baars
Card	HyperCard, SuperCard, ToolBook
Stream
Web
Matrix	1. The Matrix	1. Gibson
Network
etc., etc., etc.

 
>> Hypercard
    I remember that Hypercard had a feature that let you have an overview of "where you've been." You'd type a command-R and would see thumbnails of the cards. You could click on a card and then go back to it.

• sequential
• visual (why does visual display imply non-sequential to me?)