Ciao Jeremy I get the point that meandering over all possible names ain't helpful.
And I also LIKE the general idea that our tool is dealing with FUNDAMENTAL SEMANTIC ARCHITECTURAL re-composition at will ... In other words, basically our tool explores and refoliates the nature of information retrieval and organisation via the Net ... And that REMAINS an open-ended project. It is that ROOTING of our tool in that problematic (Bush's) I find both fascinating and very enlightening. And that is WHY I'd prefer MEMEX / XEMEMEX type name over other options ... simply because it roots the problematic back into Vannevar Bush's superb insights (and prior to the Berner-Lee production steps) of the nature of the problem (indexing human memory = memex). Regarding scope. Well, I'd roughly say we have our tool as an ENGINE FOR MAKING new tools. But also our tool is ALSO the TOOLS MADE. It is that recursive "Quine-ish" thing I think can be most hard to grasp or communicate. *The Maker is also The Made.* Where we, overall on promotion, are likely lacking is more explicit promotion of Tools Made rather than the Tool-Maker. We do lack thorough SHOWCASING. In that sense there is more than one aspect to deriving a compelling moniker. IMO we need promote both Maker and The Made. But Jeremy, thanks so much for bearing the weight forward. I really do feel your connection back to the "big problem" --- one that TW/xememex is, basically, still always facing and dealing with. Best wishes TT [email protected] wrote: > The best alternatives I've got are "xememex" for the product, and "card" > for the unit of information. I've had the domain xememex.com for a few > years and the @xememex user account. > > "Xememex" is of course a palindromisation of Vannevar Bush's "memex": > > > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/ > > -- 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/2af11283-18ca-49e8-acec-489b41b7d327n%40googlegroups.com.
