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  • From: Nick Routledge <fellowservant@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: creating online plant database
  • Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 06:47:55 -0800 (PST)


> > If Permaculture is about relatings between
> elements, then perhaps the
> > core objects in a DB design would be the
> relations, rather than the
> > plants themselves (big conceptual leap, but seems
> worth some thought;
> > also a partial answer to my first question).
>

Yum. I was waiting for this remark, coz I sense it
points to the heart of the design question. I penned
the briefest snippet for WIRED in '96, a swingeing
precis of a white paper since lost to hard disk
heaven, around the subject of dynamic nodes ("What's
the most effective way to strengthen the web?
Strengthen hyperlinking. Create dynamic nodes.") that
posited the creation of a server-based protocol
allowing for "intelligent intranode communication."
The language a leetle clunky, I must admit, not least
coz I wouldn't recognize a line of basic if I fell
over it, but essentially the conceptual approach would
involve laying a new layer of interconnectivity down
over the web - another dimension, in a sense.
Compleeecated, but the wrinkle would basically enable
the guilding of cyberspace. It makes perfect sense, of
course, that guilding permies at play in cyberspace
would be the ones to revolutionize the medium. The
Spirit of Gaia rising, 'n all that.

Fun this, innit?

Made it to Louisiana. Talk about southern grace.

Yrs, in the dirt,

n.
www.foodnotlawns.com


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