## Ownership of our digital lives - [[{2.1} we're losing the magic of our life's ephemera to the cloud]] - [[{2.1a} the essence of the everyday]] - [[{2.1b} we accumulate so much, but we own very little]] - [[{2.1b1} digital subscriptions are blurring the lines of ownership]] - [[{2.1b1a} artificial limitations create a user-hostile businesses]] - [[{2.1b1a1} we’re living on the internet of shit]] - [[{2.1b1b} there are three subscription models]] - [[{2.1b2} so many products have digital locks because it allows the company to invoke section 1201 of the dmca]] ## Combating homogeneity online - [[{2.2} the layout of the internet is starting to feel life a cookie-cutter new development]] - [[{2.2a} digital gardens are a protest against homogeneity on the open web]] - [[{2.2a1} a digital garden is a collection of linked ideas that encourages curious exploration]] - [[{2.2a1a} the architecture and landscape of your content can hold or limit attention]] - [[{2.2a1a1} too much navigational structure distorts your voice and makes your content feel smaller]] - [[{2.2a1a1a} digital gardens are experiential text design]] - [[{2.2a1a1b} hypertext builds context]] - social media has links, but not hypertext – hypertext is inherently contextualized? - [[{2.2a2b} digital gardens more closely resemble how we think than chronological feeds]] - [[{2.2a2} linking, annotating, changing, summarizing, copying, and sharing are the verbs of gardening]] - [[{2.2a2a} digital gardens fill the gap between raw notes and finished content]] - [[{2.2a2b} digital gardens should be collaborative]] - [[{2.2a2b1} note-making is the future of information creation and consumption]] - [[{2.2a2c} browsing, editing, and annotating should be seamlessly merged]] - ~ **jump to [[#knowledge management and life infostructures]], [[the memex is the original digital garden|memex]]** - [[{2.2b} the indieweb movement is an alternative to corporate-web]] ## Why the internet feels so weird - [[{2.3} internet spaces have a triple-constraint of being free, open to the public, or quality]] - [[{2.3a} it's devastating to rely on megacorps for our tools]] - [[{2.3a1} enshittification]] - [[{2.3a1a} enshittification of physical products]] ## Extended Internet Universe - [[{2.4} the four quadrants of the extended internet universe]] - [[{2.4a} the public web versus cozyweb]] - [[{2.4a1} we should not bring the machine of social media into walled gardens]] - [[{2.4b} the dark forest theory of the internet]] - [[{2.4b1} bowling alley theory of the internet]] - [[{2.4b2} the dark forest theory of the universe]] ## Digital media - [[{2.5} social media transformed the internet from a place of text to a place of visual content]] - [[{2.5a} bad art is not unique to social media]] - [[{2.5b} not all media should be digital media]] ## Communicating online - [[{2.6} poe’s law]] - [[{2.6a} the rule of goats]]