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For clarity's sake, we're going to assume: - text-based, like HN - no inherent relationships among members, like most forums - ~40,000 members, so robust but tiny
If you consider across history, and redefine all "social mediums" as "social media", we have by far one of the most decentralized social systems available. However, the systems I see online are inadequate to capture the full scope of the idea.
We're now at a place where we don't need someone telling us about a bombing: we can see the video that some guy who caught it on the ground had randomly uploaded.
When I look at things like NYT/Reuters, I see a conventional "blog": paid specialists writing eloquent depictions of what happened. If I look at Facebook/Twitter, I see algorithmically tailored feeds of what people want, but precisely as people see it.
Is it possible to converge the two? If so, what kind of framework would you expect to see? And, from a critical mass standpoint, how do we make it the Wikipedia of social media?
I've been storing content for years, and need to read through much of it. It runs the gamut of online courses, books, news articles, guides, and neat possible tools. As of right now ported to a text document, it's ~15K lines of text.
While I love reading through all of it, do any of you have a good system for working through your future learning?
I'm not so much concerned about motivation. I know EXACTLY why I want to learn, and the internet already has TONS of articles on how to find that inner purpose (Sad to say I've contributed to that deluge).
I'm more looking at the nuts-and-bolts of what you use to handle a wall of links, articles, books, and videos. Right now I use TreeSheets (i.e., spreadsheet-ception) and throw any supporting info (videos, PDFs) into a conventional file system.