Intertwingler: Retrofitting the Web

30-53 min

Covering some of the challenges that led me to write Intertwingler (https://intertwingler.net) for my Summer of Protocols (https://summerofprotocols.com) project. 00:00 - Intro 00:40 - Perhaps a history lesson is in order 02:57 - The importance of URLs 04:24 - What did the Web leave on the table? 07:17 - A tour of concrete problems 07:29 - …starting with my own website 08:01 - A failed first attempt at dense hypertext 10:14 - A rant about content inventories 11:48 - Reconstituting backlinks 12:57 - Indexes, feeds, and audience modelling 14:19 - Mitigating FAANG service 15:04 - Glossary/thesaurus/index, bibliography, dossiers 15:50 - Document statistics 16:45 - Seamless transclusions at the network level 17:41 - Stretchtext 18:55 - The importance of embedded metadata 19:51 - Computational rhetoric / media for understanding situations 21:10 - The Nature of Software 21:52 - Concept scheme as heirloom artifact 22:30 - A photo index would be nice 22:52 - Annotations would be great / rant about blog comments 24:27 - The IBIS tool and a protocol for structured data entry 25:17 - The need for something sturdier than a spreadsheet 27:03 - The importance of full data transparency and portability 28:16 - PKM: The elephant in the room 30:02 - Data semantics can be defined independently 30:05 - Where I'm at