Okay every week I will write one "stream of consciousness" entry where I don't do even a minimal amount of proofreading or editing... I start with an idea and take it wherever it leads me...
Can browsers take care of completing difficult URLs for us, or making it easier to identify sites? Where is the value in the URL these days? You can bookmark, create direct quick links on the browser window. Placing the URL on your business-card, vehicle, company building: initially the URL gives you an identity - so initially a user has to enter a URL, the easier to remember the better... easier URLs that clearly identify the company can spread much more quickly, by word of mouth, etc. If somebody decides to quick link a URL, that means its probably very important to them, something they visit very frequently. Does Firefox or Internet Explorer provide an option to send them data on what quick links a user has created? Can such a plugin be created? What prevents users from developing Firefox plugins that do "sneaky" things like this? Is it on the honor system?
Google has so much power because it presents links to relevant, high quality information quickly and early on... the URL is not so much important as Google deciding to display the link and where it displays it. So Google changed the economy of the Internet. Users don't want to enter or remember URLs... they are the only way to uniquely identify nodes on a graph, a one-to-one mapping (Google instead takes advantage of the "geometric" properties of a graph to provide amazing results).. We'll deal with the graph and its continually changing structure... you
just focus on the information you want. This is why Wikipedia is so awesome too... They take care of the structure and representation.. you just focus on the information you want.. they take it one step further... you can change the information at will (in theory).... Graphs are natural structures... graphs / interconnectedness will form automatically in nature..
New knowledge that can be generated from existing knowledge / data cannot really be represented on a graph.. It doesn't exist yet and it is not known what directed edges it would have. The potential to generate new knowledge: different combinations of existing data, new connections between existing data (it depends on how far we want to break down the knowledge (really each node in a "knowledge" graph is itself a graph, recursive)). So there is a whole
body of knowledge that can be discovered from existing knowledge... it already exists but we need to identify the combinations of nodes that represent this derived knowledge or break nodes themselves into graphs to find more basic units assemble and disassemble. Then there is a whole body of knowledge that doesn't exist yet and hasn't happened yet (the event has not occurred in our temporal frame)... I don't know if I'm going anywhere with this...
3 comments:
Frankly speaking good you asked that last question, I mean does that leading the reader to anything, I do not think so. I mean what u r trying to convey by that? Is that your thoughts or you want people to do something on it, or something else? I cud not get the exact nature of this write-up, may be I am not intelligent enough to understand it. But I feel you should sort out your thoughts while u r writing.
Sort out your thoughts while you are writing... hmmm.. that is why this type of writing is known as "stream of consciousness", you write whatever comes to your mind and wherever it takes you, you follow. It frees your mind to generate ideas without any restrictions or barriers...
After re-reading this entry, I know exactly what I was thinking at the time... there are several salient points from this entry:
*URLs themselves are becoming less important than before. Google searches provide us with links to the information we need. Bookmarks allow us to revisit sites. Google directly impacts the economy of the Internet.
*How do we prevent third party /plugins software developers from writing unethical software or software that invades our privacy?
*What is the smallest unit of knowledge? How far can it be broken up?
Actually bookmark was anyway available form the beginning, so that’s not new thing added. So there is point in memorizing the URL, it does make sense when you shift the PC, which happens all the time, at that moment bookmark becomes weak point.
Hacking is no way stoppable; there is always some way out. We can be cautious but hackers are damn smart and good in technology.
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