Think of expressive works as contexts you are inside of, not as static wholes.
Instead of files and documents, think of pieces being used and the generic ways in which they are used. Think of the pieces as links, not as copies. Think of copying as making use of -- as getting information and putting it into forms that you need, that may in turn be new links for others. Think of every context as made up of links that you are using, that you point to or that you have made, links that come from you and all your peers and all of your authoritative servers, answering these links. Think about every context as a certain purpose or use and a certain kind of links, brought together. Think of those kinds of purposes and kinds of links as links themselves. Types of uses and types of links. Think of combinations of types of uses and types of links as contexts that you live within. Think of contexts as a productive space within which you can model, manipulate, query, distribute, outline, update, categorize and follow dependencies among published, shared contexts. Think about having all those functions inherently available to everyone in every possible context. Think of all contexts as based on the same core notions -- types of uses of types of links that come with all the fundamental functionality you need. Think of all contexts as therefore intrinsically interoperable. Think of how general contexts are: are they relevant to everyone in a space made up of many servers hosting pieces? Are they relevant to everyone at a particular server? Are they relevant from an esoteric or temporary standpoint? Think about all of this instead of Google. Seth Johnson -- RIAA is the RISK! Our NET is P2P! http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/ftc DRM is Theft! We are the Stakeholders! New Yorkers for Fair Use http://www.nyfairuse.org [CC] Counter-copyright: http://realmeasures.dyndns.org/cc I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or distribution of this incidentally recorded communication. Original authorship should be attributed reasonably, but only so far as such an expectation might hold for usual practice in ordinary social discourse to which one holds no claim of exclusive rights. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
