Folklore

This is a journey to summon a portal to Us, our collective wisdom.Folklore is nearing 300 pieces of curated content. The knowledge accumulated by the community is becoming increasingly valuable for research, not just curiosity and leisure. How can we make this information accessible? How can we begin to derive insights from the connections between the content?Let us create our first Mind.Community MindsFolklore is not the first, or only community asking these questions of knowledge and memory...

Welcome! This is our second Folklore community contribution, written by Rafa. Funds from the NFT will be split between Rafa and the Folklore treasury.Ecosystems, as part of organizationsOur digital ecosystem no longer lingers in the background; instead, it has forced its way to the forefront. It is a moving entity requiring new paths for organizational development. As a result we can ask: what new patterns of organizational design are becoming visible? Historically, organizational designers l...

Welcome to the Folklore blog. If you are a token holder and member, please register here: guild.xyz/folklore. Otherwise, you can join the adventure at the launch announcement link.It’s useful to map out how a community is set up at its inception. The documentation process clarifies the intention of the design while helping others gain inspiration to try out variations themselves. Back in 2021, I wrote my first How-To article with Cabin. Specifically, I wrote my first article, here on Mirror, ...

Today marks 2-weeks since the initial launch. Some structure is beginning to emerge and we should make sure to document it. After all, writing is sensemaking. Folklore has three primary gathering spaces as of today: The Drip, The Forum, and The Journal. Together, they form a larger, single space of exploration and connection. It’s important to note that this space is not for marketing. There will be no KPIs or OKRs. Instead, we can imagine the Folklore space as an extended dinner conversation...

A Free CollectibleOver the next 2 months, we will be encouraging all readers of our Telegram Public Drip to subscribe with a free token (below!). If you don’t have a crypto wallet, feel free to let me know (@rafathebuilder) and I can help onboard you. As we continue to grow, this registration process will help us extend our membership beyond those that are paying for additional privileges such as the discussion forum, curation, and commissioning essays. After the 2 months, onboarding will req...

Cover image by Ian by Design. Stained glass texture by jojo-ojoj. Welcome! This is our first Folklore community contribution, written by Finn Lobsien. Funds from the NFT will be split between Finn and the Folklore treasury.Carved into marble by the city’s best sculptors, sacred relics once adorned the temple of Athena. Once, they supported Athenian worship of the goddess of battle. Today, the marble figures can testify to Roman marauding, Ottoman conquering and British tourism. The Parthenon ...

Welcome to the Folklore blog. If you are a token holder and member, please register here: guild.xyz/folklore. Otherwise, you can join the adventure at the launch announcement link.A few pieces of technology are consolidating into a new form of participatory media, blurring the lines between curation, consumption, and creation. Historically, these functions have been perceived as separate agents. Creators create and consumers consume. Meanwhile, algorithms control curation and embed advertisin...

We will feast on excellent content, explore new theories, and nurture opportunities to craft, decorate and garden.We continue on our journey to learn about digital cultures and how the internet is shaping our world. A few updates:By next week, we’ll likely hit 100 curated articles (currently at 96!)A shout out to the 77 Folks participating in the Forum conversation. This is >50% of token holders.We’ve launched a new community curation process, details below.We will be launching a new free-tie...

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.A dream of a caravan travelling to a distant digital realm. Created via beta.dreamstudio.aiWayfindingTo start, we should ask: what do we include in our digital knapsack? We have our initial ...

“What’s culturally relevant is valuable to own” Finn, Folklore MemberWelcome back! It’s been a long few months and we continue to read and discuss together about online culture, communities, and how they are influencing our lives.Community UpdatesAs of today, we’ve curated 200 pieces of content. The running list is available here in a google spreadsheet If you are a Season 1 Member:Collect a Genesis member badgeCurate with us at OnPulseA reminder that our linktree has all our community links....

We will feast on excellent content, explore new theories, and nurture opportunities to craft, decorate and garden.Our journey preparations are complete, and the adventure through these strange digital realms has begun. Onward:As of last week, we’ve shared 59 long-form articles in the Folklore Drip and welcomed 150 members to the community. We are sold-out.As of today, Folklore is a community of members with shared interests; it was “an extended dinner conversation” on Telegram discussing onli...

We’ve curated over 200 articles over the past nine months and some trends are beginning to appear. Specifically, we can look back and understand the primary sources of our readings, as well as the overarching theme.Meandering among the digital humanitiesBack in August 2022, when Folklore initially launched, I described the curation as “a unique intersection of content combining community, internet lorecraft, and human relationships in the digital realm”. It turns out that Folklore’s curation ...