Critical Futures Archive

While, the archives for Critical Futures go back to 2002, most of the posts before 2007 aren't terribly useful. Many of the rest of the posts are, I think, pretty cool, but it's very hard to draw attention to those really cool posts.

This is a problem with a lot of blogs: they have a lot of great content, and they make it easy for people to write, publish, and conduct direct conversations with audiences and collaborators, but when there's enough content in a blog, it becomes incredibly cumbersome to find old and important posts. Though it's possible for a blog's content to endure, it is very difficult to organize content in a useful way.

Archives and Curration

I've written some posts in the couple of years discussing new media, and the problem with writing and maintaining content on blogs in a way that remains useful and accessible. Here are the posts in questions:

This page is both an overview of existing archives, and working notes on archives that I think would be useful to create in the future. If you see something that's missing, or want to add something else to an archive, this page is a great place for that!

Future Archives

Xanadu

Project Xanadu was the first real hypertext system, and while the "world wide web" and http won out, Xanadu remains the most technologically advanced (theoretical) hypertext system. Its influence and inspiration continue shape the way people think about hypertext. I wrote three posts on the subject in the spring of 2009.

Knitting

I'm a knitter. I post about knitting fairly regularly, but I've also written a few more higher level posts about knitting. They're older than most of the content in curated archives, and I'm not sure how I feel about their quality, but they definitely form a series. These posts are:

Existing Archives

Cooperative Economics

I wrote a collection of posts about the economic crash of 2008/2009- touching on free software, the information technology industry, and the Sun/Oracle merger.

New Media and Blogging

I've been thinking about "new media" and blogging, and the possibilities of the form for about as long as I've been blogging. These posts also address the future of publishing as an industry, and what the economic implications are for writers and publishers in the present we are entering and occupy.

Science Fiction

I write science fiction stories, usually that address issues around colonialism, the individual underpinnings of cultural identity and participation, specific experiences of history, among other topics. My style tends to be in the space opera vein. These posts, however, discuss timely issues in the field as large.

Technology Futurism

These posts are attempts to extrapolate impending developments in technology with a heavy historical perspective, and some wishful thinking.

Technical Writing

I work professionally as a technical writer, and am interested in the role and impact of documentation on technology itself, as well as the tools we use to produce documentation. There are also corresponding pages in the technical writing section of this wiki, that address these topics.

Lessons from Systems Administration

These posts take ideas an experiences from systems administration and expand on them in other contexts.

Lists

These posts are mostly silliness, but they seem to go together.

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