Sadly, this isn’t entirely the fault of the Machine Learning algorithms that now rule the world and decide how to rank the results on a Google search page. We’re in a world of walled gardens and click farms.
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In fact, I’ll often add a word or two to the search to make sure that I get an answer from Thom Hogan on photography plus others who may have commented on his opinion.Ĭuriously, huge amounts of the internet are generally completely cut out of these searches- Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. I rarely get linked to one of the sites I follow through RSS feeds via NetNewsWire. Since most of the web writing going on is on commercial sites selling courses or subscription content, even when I get sent to a content page, it’s often a teaser for some course or software. In fact, I’ve subscribed to Medium because so often search results take me there. If I see real content it’s often a link to Reddit, a company support forum or, sometimes a post on Medium. I get advertising, shopping and howto Youtube videos. For a long time, its been noticeable how many searches return no real results on the first or event the second page. I often see mention of how Google/YouTube has turned the web into a closed system by controlling search and advertising. I miss the individual voices of the early internet and it seems that all of this note taking should provide some path for sharing what we’re all learning outside of commercial sites. Not so much content coming back out of these notes outside of work product like academic publications, corporate reports and the commercial content universe of the internet which has replaced magazines and newspapers, but tends toward the slick and superficial. Lots of notes, lots of systems, lots of discussion. I ask myself, “With all this note taking, where’s the shared content being shared?” I almost forgot the emerging ePaper device category, which has tempted me a few times 1. And then there’s the handwriting on iPad apps like Notability and Good Notes. On the digital side there’s a new crop of back linking network note taking apps that join the still relevant categories of GTD task managers, plain text approaches, Wikis and Hypertext (like my favorite, Eastgate’s Tinderbox), and integrated note systems from Evernote to Ulysses to Markdown editors to the latest like Craft. The world of analog journalling is flourishing, propelled by (mostly) Japanese stationary brands like Midori with its Traveler’s Notebook and the Hobonichi Techo, but some stalwart European and British brands like Rhodia and even Filofax. Note taking seems to be having one of its many turns as an internet topic.
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