Web Ecology & Attention

Examines how digital platforms, media architectures, and information environments shape collective attention, consent, and the evolving social texture of online life.

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2024-10-10 Ribbonfarm is Retiring
2024-06-05 Bangalore Meetup Report
2024-05-02 There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
2024-04-16 The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
2024-04-16 Stack Map of the World
2024-03-14 Protocol Entrepreneurship
2024-03-08 My Post-AI Writing
2024-03-02 Poison-Depilling Problems
2024-02-17 Cozy Hypertext for the Dark Forest Web
2024-02-15 The Dark Forest Marketing Agency
2024-02-07 BDFxing, Or Post-Charismatic Distributed Leadership
2024-02-02 Thoughts on XMTP
2024-01-31 Lego Soup
2024-01-10 Knowledge Management
2024-01-09 Does AI Have Buddha Nature?
2023-12-28 2023 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2023-12-21 Charnel Vision
2023-11-09 Touching Transistors
2023-11-02 The Future of the Blogosphere
2023-09-07 Worlds in Waiting
2023-07-13 Worldly, Yet Carefree
2023-05-04 Life After Language
2023-03-01 Salt-Seeking
2022-12-29 2022 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Roundup
2022-11-03 Storytelling -- End-Times Tales
2022-09-29 Ark Head
2022-06-02 Storytelling -- Mediocre Metamodernism
2022-05-05 The Map
2022-04-28 Elderblog Sutra: 13
2022-02-23 Divergentism
2022-01-12 Storytelling -- Narrative Wet Bulb Temperature
2021-12-29 2021 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2021-11-09 Jumping into Web3
2021-11-03 Ghost Protocols
2021-06-04 Non-Contact
2021-03-11 Elderblog Sutra: 12
2021-01-21 Nostalgia for Network Effects
2020-12-31 2020 Ribbonfarm Extended Universe Annual Roundup
2020-12-02 Pascal's Market
2020-10-29 MJD 59,151
2020-09-23 Epistemic Reserve Notes
2020-09-03 Wittgenstein's Revenge
2020-08-26 The Stack: A Love/Hate Story
2020-08-24 Notes: Astounding by Alec Nevala-Lee
2020-08-19 Convergent Evolution
2020-08-04 Amateur Vigour
2020-07-30 Elderblog Sutra: 11
2020-07-21 To Attack and Dethrone Gods
2020-07-06 Notes: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
2020-06-23 Two Spooks
2020-05-21 New E-Book, and a Portfolio Update
2020-04-23 Quarantine Art
2020-04-12 Now Reading: Pandemic Edition
2020-04-07 Pandemic Dashboard: 3
2020-04-02 Pandemic Dashboard: 2
2020-04-01 Scorpio Season: A New Talk Show
2020-03-23 Pandemic Dashboard: 1
2020-03-18 Domestic Cozy: 12
2020-03-17 Masks All The Way Down
2020-03-09 Plot Economics
2020-03-03 The New Uncanny Valley
2020-02-24 A Text Renaissance
2020-02-13 Domestic Cozy: 11
2020-01-23 Being Your Selves: Identity R&D on alt Twitter
2020-01-16 The Internet of Beefs
2020-01-03 MJD 58,851
2019-12-17 Mediating Consent
2019-12-13 Disassembling the Empathy Machine
2019-12-06 The Ovaltine Moment
2019-12-03 Automontage
2019-11-15 The Galactic Numerology Collision
2019-11-12 AI And Human Digitization: When Seeing Is Not Believing?
2019-11-08 Spatial Intelligence: Architecture as a Giant Computer
2019-11-05 From Pseudoevents to Pseudorealities
2019-11-04 Domestic Cozy: 9
2019-11-01 Plannar -- Co-Visioning with AR
2019-10-29 The City as Weakly-Escaped Reality
2019-10-08 Becoming the Internet
2019-09-17 Weirding Diary: 10
2019-08-28 Predictable Identities: 16 - Newcomblike, Part II
2019-07-22 Domestic Cozy: 6
2019-07-04 Semi-Annual 2019 Roundup
2019-06-20 Reflections on Refactor Camp 2019
2019-05-27 Weirding Diary: 8
2019-05-20 Domestic Cozy: 5
2019-04-22 Infinite Machines: 3 -- Turking Interfaces
2019-04-08 Weirding Diary: 7
2019-03-28 What If We Already Know How to Live?
2019-03-25 Infinite Machines: 2 – Plasticized Erotica
2019-03-18 Elderblog Sutra: 5
2019-03-12 Refactorings Roundup: 1/28/19 - 3/10/19
2019-03-11 Infinite Machines: 1 - An Introduction
2019-02-28 Markets Are Eating The World
2019-02-19 Elderblog Sutra: 4
2019-02-18 Weirding Diary: 4
2019-02-14 Breaking Smart Season 1 Online Workshop
2019-02-11 Elderblog Sutra: 3
2019-02-05 Elderblog Sutra: 2
2019-02-04 Weirding Diary: 3
2019-01-31 Elderblog Sutra: 1
2019-01-30 Weirding Diary: 2
2019-01-28 Refactorings Roundup: 12/09/18 - 1/28/19
2018-12-12 Refactorings Roundup 11/13/18 - 12/08/18
2018-11-28 The Digital Maginot Line
2018-11-14 Refactorings Roundup 10/07/18 -- 11/12/18
2018-10-25 The Speakeasy Imagineering Network
2018-10-18 Unflattening Hobbes
2018-10-11 Pack Experience
2018-09-16 Refactorings Roundup 09/02/2018 -- 09/15/18
2018-09-07 Social Media Consciousness
2018-09-02 Refactorings Roundup 08/26/2018 09/1/2018
2018-08-26 Refactorings Roundup 08/19/2018 - 8/25/2018
2018-08-20 Feed Fox Links: 8/12/18 -- 8/18/18
2018-07-10 Into the Fediverse
2018-05-17 Refactor Camp: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding Summary and Wrap Up
2018-03-08 Refactor Camp 2018: Cryptoeconomics and Blockchain Weirding
2018-03-06 A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars
2018-03-01 Luxuriating in Privacy
2018-02-20 2018 Annual Letter
2018-01-25 Glitches, uh, find a way
2017-11-30 Prolegomena to Any Dark-Age Psychohistory
2017-11-28 The Leaning Tower of Morality
2017-09-28 The Internet of Electron Microscopes
2017-09-07 The World As If
2017-07-20 The Ominouslier Roar of the Bitcoin Wave
2017-07-11 Memory Transplants and Climate Risks
2017-06-01 Why Books Are Fake
2017-05-30 Y Tribenator
2017-05-25 Blockchains Never Forget
2017-05-23 There are bots. Look around.
2017-04-25 One Weird Longform Trick...on the Blockchain!
2017-04-04 Cloud Viruses in the Invisible Republic
2017-03-21 The Winter King of the Internet
2017-03-14 Sanity on the Weird Timeline
2017-03-09 \"Another Green World\"
2017-03-02 The Limits of Epistemic Hygiene
2017-02-07 Shift Register Code Breaking Out of the Echo Chamber
2017-01-17 How to Dress for the Game of Life
2016-12-21 The Computational Condition
2016-12-08 The Strategy of (Subversive) Conflict
2016-11-23 When Tools Shape You
2016-10-27 The Cyberpunk Sensibility
2016-09-22 Speak Weirdness to Truth
2016-09-15 Crowds and Technology
2016-08-04 The Quality Without a Name at the Betsy Ross Museum
2016-07-13 Welcome to Nixonland
2016-06-29 The Daredevil Camera
2016-06-02 The Theory of Narrative Selection
2016-05-12 Artem vs. Predator
2016-03-22 Berliners #11: Snowflaking Out
2016-03-17 Go Corporate or Go Home
2016-02-11 Minimum Viable Superorganism
2016-02-09 Berliners #9: The Scent of a Yak
2016-02-02 Podcasts with Longform and Farnam Street
2015-12-23 Complete 2015 Roundup
2015-09-08 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region 2015
2015-09-03 Cartographic Compression
2015-07-30 The Chinese Compressibility Parable
2015-07-28 Breaking Smart
2015-07-21 Inbox Zero versus Flow Laminar
2015-05-28 The Amazing, Shrinking Org Chart
2015-05-13 Technopaganism and the Newer Age
2015-04-22 A Better Art Vocabulary, Part 1
2015-01-21 Let's Play! Narrative Discovery vs. Expert Guides
2015-01-16 On the Design of Escaped Realities
2015-01-01 Black Mirror as Hell-Is-Other-People Futurism
2014-12-02 The Future of Tipping
2014-11-14 The Design of Crash-Only Societies
2014-09-24 The Rhythms of Information: Flow-Pacing and Spacetime
2014-08-12 The Economics of Pricelessness
2014-07-16 Close Encounters of the Missing Kind
2014-06-16 Time, Money and Bandwidth
2014-05-29 Artistic Forestry: 2014 Annual Letter
2014-05-20 The Logic of Uberreaction
2014-05-10 Two Examples of Narrative Time
2014-04-16 A Life with a View
2014-04-03 Ritual and the Productive Community
2014-03-26 Love Your Parasites
2014-03-20 The Message is the Medium
2014-03-12 Authors and Directors
2014-03-06 Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories
2014-02-27 Demons by Candelight
2014-02-07 An Information Age Glossary
2014-01-21 The Poor Usability Tell
2014-01-15 Resident Bloggers for 2014: Sam, Jordan, Kartik, Keith
2014-01-10 Consent of the Surveilled
2013-12-09 Our Diurnal Civilization
2013-12-01 Algorithmic Governance and the Ghost in the Machine
2013-11-25 The New Human Wilderness
2013-11-07 UX and the Civilizing Process
2013-09-18 Freedom in Smooth Space
2013-09-04 Projected Presence
2013-08-20 I and Thou and Life in Aspergerstan
2013-07-25 The Networked Narrative
2013-07-01 Consciousness: An Outside View
2013-06-26 Players versus Spectators
2013-05-23 Civilization and the War on Entropy
2013-04-17 So I Shall be Written, So I Shall be Performed
2013-04-03 The Locust Economy
2013-03-27 The Wave of Unknowing
2013-03-22 Social Dark Matter: On Seeing and Being Seen
2013-02-28 Binoculars versus Cameras
2013-02-28 The National Day of Unplugging
2013-02-15 Adventures in Amateur Talking-Headery
2013-02-05 Machine Cities and Ghost Cities
2013-01-17 Data is Eating Clocks
2013-01-11 Refactorings Extended: Please Welcome Mike, Drew and Kevin
2012-12-19 Complete 2012 Roundup
2012-10-23 Navigating the Holey Plane
2012-10-04 The Abundances of Ages
2012-09-27 Cloud Mouse, Metro Mouse
2012-07-31 The Guerilla Guide to Social Business
2012-05-09 Welcome to the Future Nauseous
2012-05-03 Rediscovering Literacy
2012-04-25 Go Deep, Young Man: 2012 Call for Sponsorships
2012-03-14 Reviewing Refactor Camp 2012
2012-02-07 The Greater Ribbonfarm Cultural Region
2012-01-27 Peak Attention and the Colonization of Subcultures
2012-01-18 The World is Small and Life is Long
2012-01-11 Seeking Density in the Gonzo Theater
2012-01-04 Squeakastination: The Opposite of Procrastination
2011-12-15 How the World Works: Part II
2011-11-21 Tempo Now Available on Kindle
2011-10-26 Three Deep Videos and a Roundup
2011-10-04 The Stream Map of the World
2011-07-31 On Being an Illegible Person
2011-06-29 The Four Kinds of Economies
2011-05-24 IARPA Starts Metaphor-Based Decision-Making Research
2011-05-14 The Author's Journey and the Blogger's Journey
2011-05-07 My Experiments with Introductions
2011-04-07 Extroverts, Introverts, Aspies and Codies
2011-03-01 Where the Wild Thoughts Are
2010-12-07 Socratic Fishing in Lake Quora
2010-11-19 Ribbonfarm is Now Mobile-Friendly (Sort Of)
2010-10-27 Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility
2010-08-30 Morning is Wiser Than Evening
2010-08-17 The Greasy, Fix-It 'Web of Intent' Vision
2010-08-15 Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Blog of Ribbonfarm.
2010-08-09 How to Take a Walk
2010-07-22 The Right Question, Review of Shallows, Insight vs. Mind-Candy
2010-06-24 WOM, Broadcast and the Classical Marketing Contract
2010-06-16 The Missing Folkways of Globalization
2010-06-09 Digital Security, the Red Queen, and Sexual Computing
2010-06-03 Three Off-Ribbonfarm Posts
2010-05-12 A Bumper May Harvest of Good Reading
2010-03-23 Amy Lin and the Ancient Eye
2010-03-16 Ribbonfarm Facebook page, Twitter Feed, Posterous
2010-01-20 The Ribbonfarm Posterous
2010-01-13 Conceptual Metaphors (Mashable), Gervais Principle (Fugitive Philosophy)
2010-01-04 Predictions 2010 (on Silicon Angle)
2009-12-16 The Right and Left Brains of Enterprise 2.0
2009-12-07 Social Objects: Notes on Knitting in America
2009-12-01 Pricing in Pay-It-Forward and Gift Economies
2009-08-19 On Going Feral
2009-08-12 Two Manipulative Ways to Close Conversations
2009-07-29 The Book as a Social Signal
2009-07-21 The Crucible Effect and the Scarcity of Collective Attention
2009-07-01 The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink
2009-06-07 Zen and the Art of Google Wave Mechanics
2009-04-15 Coworking: \"I'm Outta Here\" by Jones, Sundsted and Bacigalupo
2009-03-20 Succession Planning: Marshall Goldsmith vs. Eric Raymond
2009-03-11 Neatness, Organization and Unsociability
2009-01-30 Trust in the Age of Twitter
2008-12-10 Serious Games for Serious Business
2008-12-01 Future-of-Work Mini-X-Prizes at Cloudworker.org
2008-11-14 Spanning Silos by David Aaker
2008-11-09 Is There a Cloudworker Culture?
2008-11-05 The Cloud President, Obama
2008-11-03 The Corporate College and Other Election 3.0 Ideas
2008-10-30 Vote for 'Cloudworker' Among Plantronics Contest Finalists!
2008-10-29 Cloudworker Economics
2008-10-23 The Cloudworker's Creed
2008-10-01 The 10 Immutable Laws of Nanoeconomics
2008-09-29 A Generational War (Guest Post on Enterprise 2.0 Blog)
2008-09-25 Crowdsourcing and The Wisdom of the Crowds
2008-09-11 How to Measure Information Work
2008-08-10 The Future of the Internet according to Jonathan Zittrain
2008-07-07 Dipity, Or, How to View Time, 2.0
2008-06-27 From Bubbles to Cloud: The Evolution of Enterprise 2.0
2008-06-16 Roundup: March 21 - June 16
2008-06-11 Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
2008-06-01 Three Great Jobs in the Fourth Xerox Revolution
2008-05-28 Outsider Innovation 101
2008-05-26 Information Overload and the FOOD IS THOUGHT Metaphor
2008-05-01 Jump Point by Tom Hayes
2008-04-23 Ronald Coase and Salvation from Anthropological Economics
2008-04-19 A Map of the World 2.0 Canon
2008-04-15 The Coming Triumph of the Strengths Movement
2008-04-08 The New Location, Location, Location
2008-04-05 Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz
2008-04-03 Against Clouds
2008-02-25 Ambient Presence and Virtual Social Capital
2008-02-23 The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr
2008-02-04 How the Internet is Really Evolving
2007-11-19 The Deeper Meaning of Kindle
2007-10-02 Is Jeff Bezos the New Jack Welch?
2007-09-26 The Dawn of the Century of Food
2007-08-22 The Twitter Zone and Virtual Geography
2007-08-20 Open Innovation, or is Business War?
2007-08-13 The Parrot
2007-08-01 The Fifty-Foot Rule Reconsidered
2007-07-17 Visualizing the 2d World with Cartograms
2007-07-11 The Third Dimension is Not Simple
2007-06-13 Book Review: Wikinomics