This post a collection of notes about information I wrote between January 2023 and November 2023. Many quotes are slightly revised from the original version for grammar and suitability. There are 55 quotes listed below chronologically. Relevant link:
Information blogging guidelines (IBG)
1. "IBG could be a decentralized club with admission being open to anyone who uses the style. It can be a way to create a new internet." (1.11.23)
2. "Who exactly you get information from is important. Sometimes you want to listen to humans instead of AI." (1.16.23)
3. "Picking the best AI written articles should be a human task." (1.31.23)
4. "I want a knowledgeable person picking the best version of an article than a non-educated person or an AI." (1.31.23)
5. "People will always want to communicate and express themselves..." (2.1.23)
6. "Humans will always want to organize information in a way that is clear to them." (2.2.23)
7. "Lists of curated links would be useful." (2.8.23)
8. "Innovations in school technology is usually overall good." (3.4.23)
9. "The internet needs more yellow pages to help organize information." (3.5.23)
10. "I want to see greater focus on making single static webpages for displaying information and text. I want to see networks and collections of independently created pages." (3.15.23)
11. "IBG is useful for collecting citations." (3.20.23)
12. "Humanity should not give up on finding clear explanations and educational tools." (3.20.23)
13. "The internet today is too amorphous. I like the static-ness of Wikipedia." (3.20.23)
14. "I believe IBG is well suited to make communities online. We need to make lists and sites to make it more collaborative and community based." (5.30.23)
15. "I believe the internet and communication can get humanity closer to knowledge and the truth. Information is needed and we need to analyze the information." (6.10.23)
16. "Organizing the principles of a topic is something I want a human doing rather than AI. I want an expert telling me how they look at a topic or at least verifying AI results." (6.21.23)
17. "I am more focused on breaking knowledge into smaller pieces than what Wikipedia does with articles." (6.22.23)
18."To truly organize the world's information, we would need to incorporate decentralization and alternative beliefs." (6.26.23)
19. "I want the internet to go back to more of a focus on document sharing." (7.1.23)
20. "The idea is that we can take principles of information and chunks and combine them into larger systems. To do that you need consistency across chunks that requires rules or standards to aim for." (7.2.23)
21. "Sometimes you want stable representations to refer to when you need them." (7.6.23)
22. "We live in a world of information overload and minimalism can be useful to address this issue." (7.22.23)
23. "The gatekeepers will be essential for handling misinformation and keeping out bad information." (8.8.23)
24. "We want a Google-like search engine with only quality webpages... or at least the consistency and reliability of Wikipedia. Maybe, it's not a search engine, but a web portal of links." (8.8.23)
25. "Google is for retrieval of information rather than organizing it. Wikipedia is more for organizing. But we still need a tool that organizes and shows the overall structure and limits of the available world." (8.17.23)
26. "By mapping and organizing the world's information, we can better understand what is true and get a closer look at the evidence that is available." (8.27.23)
27. "The organization of knowledge is itself a type of knowledge." (8.27.23)
28. "We need a standard for collecting all types of facts, pieces of information and knowledge, a center of gravity and willing editors who want to follow the standards for collecting." (9.7.23)
29. "We want something with the organization and simplicity of Wikipedia but is unlimited in material and voices. The need for this can be seen in the messiness of the web." (9.7.23)
30. "Wikipedia and IBG are both collecting systems." (9.4.23)
31. "We need to make monuments devoted to our information and knowledge." (9.10.23)
32. "I want to see the internet be more like a network of museums." (9.11.23)
33. "I just want to emphasize that to organize the world's information we need a consistent method of chunking." (9.14.23)
34. "Wikipedia is great for organizing information into a single answer with no redundancy. The rest of the internet is scattered and doesn't have cooperation systems for collecting information." (9.16.23)
35. "YouTube has shown us that there is far more information online than what is contained in Wikipedia. Figuring out how to organize that information is what IBG is for. Google also shows us the vast scale of information online." (9.16.23)
36. "I know all of my posts can be improved. I want to see others make better versions of what I'm doing." (9.17.23)
37. "One of the best things about having a personal reference tool is that it doesn't change and morph without my knowing. The internet is always shifting around. It gives solid ground to stand on." (9.18.23)
38. "Using the same guidelines can act as the glue between various URLs." (9.23.23)
39. "Search engines do not organize information. You need directories and lists to do that." (9.23.23)
40. "IBG creates a platform for competition to create clearer chunks of information." (9.23.23)
41. "Wikipedia is good for some things and bad for other things." (9.24.23)
42. "We need something that does what Wikipedia does, but with more personal control." (9.25.23)
43. "If you have different URLs working together on something they are more likely to link to each other." (9.25.23)
44. "I want to encourage people to make the information webpages they wish existed." (9.25.23)
45. "Sometimes you just want information communicated to you in a certain way and not in a random confusing way." (10.2.23)
46. "I hope to establish a diverse environment of minimalistic information webpages." (10.4.23)
47. "When you organize something, you often can see new patterns." (10.25.23)
48. "I think everyone knows [Wikipedia articles] don't allow for individual voices and free speech. Today that is the role of the rest of the internet and news and everything else. We need a structure to unify everything else in a way that is more just and reasonable than what we have today." (10.31.23)
49. "It's not just about standards but also styles can have a similar effect." (11.2.23)
50. "I stand for the rebels because I believe in diverse voices, creative works and expertise." (11.2.23)
51. "Wikipedia has great webpages because it has thousands of editors and that's why it's so useful. It has that much work put into it. I think the good intentions of people outweigh the bad forces and the rules mostly work. But it's also mob rule so its bound to be biased." (11.2.23)
52. "I believe individuals creating directories and curated web portals is a large part of the solution to decentralizing information online. Creating standards is a method to unify different sources by definition." (11.16.23)
53. "Listing information can help us organize the world's information." (11.19.23)
54. "The big challenge is how can we decentralize the internet into a web? How can we figure out how to keep websites from different URLs 'united' or 'connected' when there is a strong tendency to separate and go in different directions?" (11.22.23)
55. "A search engine is a hub and spoke model. We need to improve our practices for how we can create webs." (11.26.23)
