backlinks in wikis or digital gardens are just an abstract extension of the accounting concept of double-entry bookkeeping.
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Given the value that double-entry has created in the economic space since its wide adoption in the modern era, I wonder what additional value backlinks might create for the world?#openquestion
Is there a similar credit-debit definition we might give in the backlink space?#openquestion
What additional value can we gain by abstracting and extending this concept about information into the economics space based on this kernel?#openquestion
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Random thoughts about economics while cleaning out my garage on 2020-02-16
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This idea is underlined in Robert Caro’s book The Power Broker.
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And that’s what happened to teenage Roxie’s favorite arcade. The existing community was kicked out, replaced by something designed with absolutely no input from the community. It wasn’t even the community’s choice to kick the arcade out. There was no vote, there was no decision, there were no surveys. The people who control the neighborhood aren’t the people who live there, the people who hang out and enjoy its offerings, but instead some higher-ups with money, making secret deals on golf courses miles away, only concerned about moving numbers around. Gentrification, really, is the loss of ownership, the loss of community, in the places where you spend your time. Gentrification is the sense that you’re no longer welcome as anything more than a cog in the machine. 1
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This is very reminiscent of how some people use the internet as well. I can think of personal examples where Google apps and services were forced upon workers at companies who didn’t want them and weren’t comfortable with them.
Similarly we went from the creativity of MySpace to the corporate strictures of Facebook and Twitter that didn’t give users any flexibility or identity. The connective value was apparently worth just a bit more than the identity, so we went there, but why not have it all?
I’ll have to find the reference, but I saw an article with a book reference in the last year about the life of buildings and that well designed ones could stand the test of centuries in their ability to be redesigned and repurposed from the inside out if necessary.
An interesting thing about IndieWeb is that it is designed and built for people to live with and within because of the eat what you cook principle.
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And really, this stems from the fact that buildings aren’t designed by the community that uses them anymore. The community barely factors into the design, even. Buildings were designed to serve a specific purpose, dictated by the higher-ups with the money to purchase the land and fund the development of the building. Again, quoting the article, Unless they are an uber-wealthy client, users of buildings rarely have much input into the design process. Students do not get to say what kind of school they would like, office workers do not get to say whether they would prefer to work in a glass tower or in a leafy complex of wifi-enabled wooden pagodas. … But that rupture means that architecture becomes something imposed upon people. It isn’t participatory, and it doesn’t adapt in response to their needs. It’s prefabricated, assembled beforehand off-site and then dumped on the unwitting populace. We are not meant to live in modern buildings; they are made for people who do not poop. 1
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Alienated by the Town Square
There was this article I read, titled Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture, that does a really good job at describing this issue. There was no point in beauty, no point in decoration, as it was useless, distracting from the primary usage of the building, and a needless expense. 1
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Interesting way of framing personal identity and control using computers. (An issue here is having enough money to buy a phone or computer to exert that control still…)
Control of one’s life is important. Here they’re framing a smaller amount of control as being control of a small online space.
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It costs money to paint my walls, not that I even can considering I rent my room. It costs money to get a different desk, not that I even have a car to transport it in. But the computer? Right click, Personalize. 1
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Whoever controls the third place controls the community. If the third place is a building, and they decide to renovate, tough luck. It’s being renovated. The third place is where the community lives, it’s where they go by default essentially. If you own that place, you own a considerable amount of power in the community. 1
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