I'm not gonna do a full bio. I'll stick to intellectual biography related to TW.
My interest in TW arises from a long history in ethnography (that is when anthropologists do "fieldwork"). I have worked both in research and in applied development. A major problem ethnographers face is that in non-Western cultures is that *concepts differ*. For instance phrases like "my brother is part of that yam." What on earth does that mean? In order to properly understand it you need to faithfully record when "yam" is mentioned over time. So you can go back and reflect & analyse it in the context of usage. Over years I worked with dozens of types of specialist software (they used to be called "Text bases") that are supposed to make it easier. Many are good at recording data. FEW are decent at EXTRACTING PATTERN. TW is interesting for its flexibility in approaching this issue quite well. It has a very good openness for textual analysis (but still quite weak on easy deep analysis of the text field). At the same time I'm very occupied with the "Problem Of Modernity". Meaning, HOW in the past did we come to scale up into such extreme abstraction as computing? (Industrial revolution opened door.) Its actually a very difficult social science issue to explain how and why "modernity" emerged. Its a side-point but *matters quite a lot to understanding tech in social context.* So, on one hand I appreciate tech. On other hand I remain sceptical it is not itself *destroying diversity* by homogeneity (by which I mean a lot software is still very bad at "relevant fuzzy", which is usually the human meaning). Thoughts TT -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4d52775d-142b-45e1-9625-3a23f35bdaa4%40googlegroups.com.
