Intertwingler: Retrofitting the Web
Channel: dorian taylor
Date: 19/08/2023

Covering some of the challenges that led me to write Intertwingler (https://intertwingler.net) for my Summer of Protocols (https://summerofprotocols.com) project.

00:00 - Intro
00:40 - Perhaps a history lesson is in order
02:57 - The importance of URLs
04:24 - What did the Web leave on the table?
07:17 - A tour of concrete problems
07:29 - …starting with my own website
08:01 - A failed first attempt at dense hypertext
10:14 - A rant about content inventories
11:48 - Reconstituting backlinks
12:57 - Indexes, feeds, and audience modelling
14:19 - Mitigating FAANG service
15:04 - Glossary/thesaurus/index, bibliography, dossiers
15:50 - Document statistics
16:45 - Seamless transclusions at the network level
17:41 - Stretchtext
18:55 - The importance of embedded metadata
19:51 - Computational rhetoric / media for understanding situations
21:10 - The Nature of Software
21:52 - Concept scheme as heirloom artifact
22:30 - A photo index would be nice
22:52 - Annotations would be great / rant about blog comments
24:27 - The IBIS tool and a protocol for structured data entry
25:17 - The need for something sturdier than a spreadsheet
27:03 - The importance of full data transparency and portability
28:16 - PKM: The elephant in the room
30:02 - Data semantics can be defined independently
30:05 - Where I'm at