Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Context – Content – Data – Knowledge – Wisdom
The most important thing to understand about context is where it falls in the scheme of Meaning, data, knowledge and Widsom? it is this.. Context is not meaning. Content is meaning. Content alone is not knowledge. Knowledge is Content and Context. To use knowledge as a context with other knowledge is wisdom
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Context is just like baking a cake
Context is like baking a cake Data is information. Data is not knowledge. No more than a bowl of flour, some eggs, sugar & butter is a cake. A Tag is data. Sometimes it has information. Like if your flour is cake flour, but is still not a cake. Just as you mix ingredients &…
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Context in Action, Apples & Oranges
To show you Context Concepts, we start with Apples & Oranges. You know Apples & Oranges is the gold standard in things that are completely different? That’s not actually true, but people like it and you know that’s all that matters! The idea of context is establishing a consensual meaning. Apples & Oranges are many…
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Elmer Fudd on a Pilgwimage
Context is a rabbit hole, and I am NOT Elmer Fudd. I caught the Rabbit. It wasn’t easy. The problem started when I actually had to figure out what Context is rather than what it does. It’s complicated. As a tool, Context is like a hammer. You use it but you don’t ponder much about…
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Why Tags?
Simili, and the Terra Cognos use tags as the atomic structure of all knowledge. Since tags are names, they identify things. And to archive things is to archive the entire Internet. Tags are what builds Tag Trees & Essences. They provide context by themselves and when combined with other tags. By rule, tags are consistently…
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Tags versus Terms
By rule of thumb… Terms live in trees & are hierarchical. Tags live in content and are democratic. Terms are nouns, and tags are names.
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Tags, Essences & Trees
The core technologies for Simili, the Terra Cognos are: Tags Trees made from Tags Essences made from tags
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What is Simili?
Simili is the movement to create the Internet Library for Humanity, Terra Cognos. The Blind Guy, Paul Wolborsky, is founder, original architect & developer for the infrastructure & essential technologies. The Internet is the greatest treasure Humankind ever owned, but its knowledge & data are all dissolute, incoherent, siloed, raw nuggets buried in mountains of…
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This Website
is different… – Simple Menu/Categories: who, what so far. Snippet-like posts. Content uses tag words – I fill in the tag base & use auto-tagging to tag posts – I will write a plugin that shows all the snippets related to a thing. Like, me. – Semiotics. I’m blind but I have a few simple…
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My Process
Due to blindness, I developed a process to minimize errors. – I work with hosts to craete & update a Staging & sometimes Development copy of a website – I use the FTP software WinSCP for Staging & Development sites, and Filezilla for the Live site. This way I wouldn’t accidentally update a Live site.…
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Disclaimers
It’s amazing that I’m a blind Web Developer. But you need to be aware: – I am not fast. It takes 4-5x longer to do work blind. I debug the old-fashioned way. I make typos. – I require client help in QA. I cannot see what my pages look like & strangers may not know…
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My Skills
Languages: PHP, Python. CMS: WordPress, Drupal. Frameworks: Zurb Foundation. WordPress: Custom post types. Custom Taxonomy & Tag bases. Shortcodes. Action Hooks & Filters. Themes. Plugins. SEO. Image Mgmt. Hosting: Domains, hosting, emails.
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Buzzwords
Work Flow – in addition to what you see on a web page, I set up & write code to handle the manual labor it takes to run the website. I have to analyze business process, availability of staff, the work it takes to close a transaction w/clients, security, life-cycle, data mgmt. Migration – I…
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Link to my most recent work
San Francisco Cable Cars Streetcar.org cablecars San Francisco Streetcars Streetcar.org Streetcars Note: The Streetcar fleet page is #4 or #5 on Google Page 1 for phrases Streetcar or Street cars
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My most recent project
I revamped www.streetcar.org Cable car & Street car fleet & individual car pages. Full & scaled images based on Featured images. I crated shortcodes, moving away from template pages. I made it so editors can add a car & see it immediately appear in a Fleet category & next/previous links. The Next/Prev links are custom,…
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Web Developer since 2003
I write in PHP. I coded WordPress, Drupal, Zurb Foundation. I also do Python. My specialties are: Workflow (back-office, back-end & front-end). Data Migration. Taxonomy, light-weight Statistics & Analytics using Standard Deviation. My current project is a novel expansion of Taxonomy & Tag paradigms based on Ontology. I am building it on a copy of…
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