devlog

Since the journalling thread last summer, i’ve been idly dreaming about collecting RDF feeds of all the information i generate through the keyboard. dashboard i liked a great deal - edd did some great tricks with it. I hear excited things about beagle. But i don’t run a gnome desktop; i do a lot of work in a terminal, read mail with mutt, irc with irssi.

My collection of logging scripts has grown to the point at which i can honestly say i’m externalising “everything”. perhaps the fact that this doesn’t include command-line interactions, is a cop-out; i imagine they’re uninteresting.

I offer these scripts online in case anyone finds them useful or might want to pursue the practise of logging everything and then looking at it. i have used drupal for the latter, and it is promising though its handling of RSS feeds doesn’t integrate well into its node model. We’ve been working on the long-contemplated “ontomatic” which should make building a web UI to a store of this data, very easy.

This may seem like a deep exercise in blogger egoism. I think this could be averted if everyone considered publishing feeds of everything they emit in this way. I am also looking for other ways in which to avoid recursive narcissism in this area:

• using this technique to provide a bot narrative about and reflection of its own brain
• using this technique and adaptations of it to working a group organiser which uses the task inputs and the group outputs to create suggestions
• applying the latter principle to interactions of bots.