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FolkloreThe Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this commissioned essay, Rue Yi and Ruby Justice Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces. Rue talks into their screen in a room in Toronto. They keep a green hardback journal with them in case any good ideas want to make themselves known in the shape of daydreams. Ruby is a designer, cyberethnographer and artist. He is the founder of 13101401 Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Design a...
FolkloreThe $DEGEN Archives
Folklore has a mission to explore and understand our evolving digital worlds. Today, we’re happy to dive into the $DEGEN memecoin – a crypto-native fungible digital asset, tied to a social media meme – that emerged within the most recent break-out web 3 consumer social protocol called Farcaster. Before diving in, a note of gratitude to Bountycaster, for enabling us to find the right person to document $DEGEN. Tips and earnings from this post will be split among those that submitted essays for...
FolkloreHow to Repair a Spaceport: A metaphor for our technological present
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this newly-commissioned essay, Kei Kreutler reflects on standardization and technological interoperability through the metaphor of the fictional spaceport. Kei’s work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.No one knows how to repair a spaceport. This is because spaceports primarily exist as a fiction. Spaceports imply the existence of inter-Solar System, if not intergalactic...
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FolkloreThe Balkanization & Babelification of the Internet
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this commissioned essay, Rue Yi and Ruby Justice Thelot explore the nature and consequence of our diverging online spaces. Rue talks into their screen in a room in Toronto. They keep a green hardback journal with them in case any good ideas want to make themselves known in the shape of daydreams. Ruby is a designer, cyberethnographer and artist. He is the founder of 13101401 Inc. and Adjunct Professor of Design a...
FolkloreThe $DEGEN Archives
Folklore has a mission to explore and understand our evolving digital worlds. Today, we’re happy to dive into the $DEGEN memecoin – a crypto-native fungible digital asset, tied to a social media meme – that emerged within the most recent break-out web 3 consumer social protocol called Farcaster. Before diving in, a note of gratitude to Bountycaster, for enabling us to find the right person to document $DEGEN. Tips and earnings from this post will be split among those that submitted essays for...
FolkloreHow to Repair a Spaceport: A metaphor for our technological present
Welcome to Folklore, a community exploring the labyrinth of networked worlds. In this newly-commissioned essay, Kei Kreutler reflects on standardization and technological interoperability through the metaphor of the fictional spaceport. Kei’s work explores how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build.No one knows how to repair a spaceport. This is because spaceports primarily exist as a fiction. Spaceports imply the existence of inter-Solar System, if not intergalactic...
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Since launch, we’ve distributed 105 totems to 105 souls on our digital anthropological expedition. You may be one of them. If not, fear not, you can still join us.
For those that have joined, it seems like we have a few outstanding travel preparations as we start our journey into our strange online realms.
To start, we should ask: what do we include in our digital knapsack? We have our initial totem but there is definitely much more:
We’ve prepared our conversational caravan, via guild. Make sure to stop by and present your totem, which serves as your community pass.
We’ve collected initial entries on our central journal here. Make sure to register for ongoing news of our journey.
We’ve started our explorations with a daily drip of discoveries. Make sure to join, for a gentle stream of interesting long-form articles.
We’ve collected >3 ETH in our treasury of resources, which you are welcome to send some fun memorabilia (maybe some odd, misshapen tokens to be transformed into stories?) (0x22fdecaa6cd937fdb989614b6c879261f0104adb)
We’ve crafted a public message box. Make sure to follow the account, tag it (@) or send a message if you want something included in this communal journal. We already received our first message.
Once you’ve completed these steps, it’s time to sit back, watch, and allow the network winds to part the digital sea before us.
Are those just illusions on the horizon? There seems to be structures emerging.
https://vbsd.super.site/introduction-for-culture-shifters
For millennia humans have relied on one another to recall the minutiae of our daily goings-on. Now we rely on "the cloud"-and it is changing how we perceive and remember the world around us
Depth is what keeps a game feeling fresh long after its release. So what is it, and how do you capture that elusive magic?
How did the internet disrupt 20th century timekeeping systems and spark an insurgence of alternative historical narratives? How do old media institutions try (and fail) to keep up with the narratives of online subcultures? How does the immediate accessibility of so many alt histories undermine our ability to create shared visions of the future?
https://mirror.xyz/avenueplace.eth/ETDXG1NCYUytex3G3G_3DxnVwA70qJ9z2U-d2xdZZUs
Social media is blamed for many of today's social ills, but this only serves to shield us from the harsh reality that it is us who are at fault.
The Big6™ is a process model for information problem-solving. It integrates information search and use skills along with technology tools in a systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate information for specific needs and tasks. The Big6 was developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz and is the popular approach to teaching information and technology...
All earnings from collection of this post will be split 50-50 between the non-profit I support (Obras del País) and Folklore’s community treasury. Treasury funds will be fully utilized to commission new essays related to our new digital realms.
Since launch, we’ve distributed 105 totems to 105 souls on our digital anthropological expedition. You may be one of them. If not, fear not, you can still join us.
For those that have joined, it seems like we have a few outstanding travel preparations as we start our journey into our strange online realms.
To start, we should ask: what do we include in our digital knapsack? We have our initial totem but there is definitely much more:
We’ve prepared our conversational caravan, via guild. Make sure to stop by and present your totem, which serves as your community pass.
We’ve collected initial entries on our central journal here. Make sure to register for ongoing news of our journey.
We’ve started our explorations with a daily drip of discoveries. Make sure to join, for a gentle stream of interesting long-form articles.
We’ve collected >3 ETH in our treasury of resources, which you are welcome to send some fun memorabilia (maybe some odd, misshapen tokens to be transformed into stories?) (0x22fdecaa6cd937fdb989614b6c879261f0104adb)
We’ve crafted a public message box. Make sure to follow the account, tag it (@) or send a message if you want something included in this communal journal. We already received our first message.
Once you’ve completed these steps, it’s time to sit back, watch, and allow the network winds to part the digital sea before us.
Are those just illusions on the horizon? There seems to be structures emerging.
https://vbsd.super.site/introduction-for-culture-shifters
For millennia humans have relied on one another to recall the minutiae of our daily goings-on. Now we rely on "the cloud"-and it is changing how we perceive and remember the world around us
Depth is what keeps a game feeling fresh long after its release. So what is it, and how do you capture that elusive magic?
How did the internet disrupt 20th century timekeeping systems and spark an insurgence of alternative historical narratives? How do old media institutions try (and fail) to keep up with the narratives of online subcultures? How does the immediate accessibility of so many alt histories undermine our ability to create shared visions of the future?
https://mirror.xyz/avenueplace.eth/ETDXG1NCYUytex3G3G_3DxnVwA70qJ9z2U-d2xdZZUs
Social media is blamed for many of today's social ills, but this only serves to shield us from the harsh reality that it is us who are at fault.
The Big6™ is a process model for information problem-solving. It integrates information search and use skills along with technology tools in a systematic process to find, use, apply, and evaluate information for specific needs and tasks. The Big6 was developed by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz and is the popular approach to teaching information and technology...
All earnings from collection of this post will be split 50-50 between the non-profit I support (Obras del País) and Folklore’s community treasury. Treasury funds will be fully utilized to commission new essays related to our new digital realms.
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