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# Metadata
Author:: [[Maggie Appleton]]
Title:: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Full Title:: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Import Date:: 2023-05-13
Source:: #source/readwise/reader
Source URL:: [Source URL](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history)
Review URL:: [Review URL](https://readwise.io/bookreview/27440795)
Public URL:: [Public URL](https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01gzvcae29wsj70a42phc00m5a)
Newsletter:: [[Digital gardens, Parenting, and Coffee]]
Tags:: [[Priority]] [[Digital Gardening]]
# Highlights
- Caufield makes clear digital gardening is not about specific tools – it's not a Wordpress plugin, Gastby theme, or Jekyll template. It's a **different way of thinking about our online behaviour around information** - one that accumulates ==personal knowledge over time== in an explorable space.
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxyt8c5yvxvyxnsry65m1jv)
- You get to actively choose which curiosity trail to follow, rather than defaulting to the algorithmically-filtered ephemeral stream. **The garden helps us move away from time-bound streams and into contextual knowledge spaces.**
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxyvw1345vjjm43d25sjbtm)
- Instead of slapping [[Fully Formed Opinions]] up on the web and never changing them.
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxyxqgxcajf8pm7tn14kkrq)
- Amy argues that Moveable Type didn't just launch us into the "**[[Chronological Sort Era]]**". It also killed the wild, diverse, hodge-podge personalisation of websites that characterised the early web. ==Instead of hand-coding your own layout and deciding exactly how to arrange the digital furniture==, we began to enter the age of standardised layouts
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxyyrxpeyp6bt0xwzegwf4m)
- These services are trying to find a happy middle ground between tediously hand-coding solutions, and being trapped in the restrictions of Wordpress or Squarespace.
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxz19495pffwtd8ef8qxgxx)
- Over the last decade, we've moved away from casual live journal entries and formalised our writing into _articles_ and _essays_. These are carefully crafted, edited, revised, and published with a timestamp. When it's done, it's done. We act like tiny magazines, sending our writing off to the printer
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxz43hvc298xsvha4rmwdq1)
- ==In performance-blog-land you do that thinking and researching privately, then shove it out at the final moment. A grand flourish that hides the process.==
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxz5ar1ttv1a8nf9fe5dkz4)
- We have all been trained to behave like tiny, performative corporations when it comes to presenting ourselves in digital space.
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxz6w9a8qd815a8etfmn3vm)
- Publishing imperfect and early ideas **==requires that we make the status of our notes clear to readers.**==
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxz9841d6cfx6pv1gzg7bh7)
- They ask the reader to allow the writer to be wrong, offer constructive criticism, and attribute their work
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxzk9wh33d4j5crsd4jv8sh)
- Gardens are a chance to question the established norms of a '_personal website_', and make space for weirder, wilder experiments.
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxzmm45bdtsfeys0ccaeyqa)
- Gardens offer us the ability to present ourselves in forms that aren't cookie cutter profiles. They're the higher-fidelity version, complete with quirks, contradictions, and complexity.
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxzn98jbbvkxe63v5b5xq7x)
- the moment our gardens are rather solo affairs. We haven't figure out how to make them multi-player. _But_ there's an enthusiastic community of developers and designers trying to fix that. ==It's hard to say what kind of libraries, frameworks, and design patterns might emerge out of that effort, but it certainly isn't going to happen behind a Medium paywall.==
- Date:: [[2023-05-08]]
- Find: [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gzxzqvxh5r0y7ww3tvrs75n3)
- Tags: [[Multiplayer Digital Gardening]]