# notes --- - the garden and the stream can be complimentary elements - these are two separate ways of being and interacting online that are at odds with each other, but are complimentary features of digital topography. - we use the stream to discover new information and make connections with like-minded people, and that information can be processed and funneled into the garden - the stream is input / the garden is output or processing - campfires add another topographical element to the digital landscape - These are things that have a “slower burn” than what you’ll find in the Stream, but that still becomes less consequential over a long period of years compared to what you’ll find in the Garden. - Campfires might include blogs, private networks, micro-communities, and forums. These are areas where you gather to think out loud, form connections, and builds the muscle of conscious consumption and publishing. # summary --- Critchlow expands on [[Caufield, Mike. - 2015 - The Garden and the Stream - a Technopastoral|Mike Caufield’s Stream vs. Garden metaphor]], taking [[Rao, Venkatesh - 2018 - How to Actually Manage Attention Without Smashing Your Phone and Retreating to a Log Cabin|Venkatesh Rao’s Stream management theory]] into consideration. Rather than approaching the Stream and the Garden as being two separate ways of being and interacting online, he positions them as complimentary features of the digital landscape. The Stream is where he quickly discovers new information and makes new connections, while the Garden is a place to curate, explore, and connect information. Critchlow also adds a third topographical feature: Campfires. For him, this is primarily blogging; his posts are “slower burn but fade relatively quickly over the timeframe of years”. That is, the Campfires are a medium between low-latency, rushed information consumption of the Stream and the timeless, never-finished nature of the Garden.