In confluence (wiki software from Atlassian) there is an “excerpt” feature that lets you do “transclusions”.

You mark one part of a page as “excerptable” and then from any other page you can “include” that “excerpt”.

It’s quite neat. Helps you have the same content reused and reordered in different ways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion

#transclusions #xanadu #TedNelson

#ComputerLegend - #TedNelson

https://youtu.be/c6SUOeAqOjU

@BillySmith & btw I was very honored and fortunate to meet and talk to hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson, a few years ago at an event at #InternetArchive headquarters, San Francisco. IA and its founder/director @brewsterkahle are—like Nelson—major inspirations to me; IA a core & constant asset in my life and projects. #BrewsterKahle #InternetArchive c/ @internetarchive #TedNelson #THNelson

@BillySmith ➡️ "I will explain why the problem is not simple, and why the solution (a file structure) must yet be very simple."
— from the foundational document of #hypertext, and of this aspect of the Internet/Web: T. H. Nelson (1965), "A File Structure for The Complex, The Changing and the Indeterminate": https://archive.org/details/nelson-file-structure/mode/1up?view=theater. One of my favorite quotes, and papers; from the #LandmarkPapers category of which I'm quite fond. #THNelson #TedNelson

@gregeganSF Reminds me of a quote from Ted Nelson in “Computer Lib”: “Of course we can build a rocket ship out of tapioca! We already have the tapioca!” #TedNelson

#tednelson #computerlib 1975

#tednelson #computer #ai

@mdhughes Computer Lib / Dream Machines
by Ted Nelson

https://archive.org/details/ted-nelson-computer-lib-dream-machine

@TheGibson

#TedNelson #ArchiveOrg #Books

When did #TedNelson first introduce the term #micropayments?

https://www.economist.com/technology-quarterly/2000/12/07/the-babbage-of-the-web

(boosts appreciated)

I've been maintaining a list of words coined by #TedNelson and just pushed a bunch of updates, available at https://fangl.es The URL is actually an example of one such word :) #hypertext #hypermedia #xanadu

#Decontextualization is a problem that #hypertext was supposed to solve, but its web bastard children have made #context linking worse.

Revisit #ComputerLib / #DreamMachines of OG #TedNelson and #ProjectXanadu and the two-way hyperlinks that kept sources and derivative materials linked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson

Internet media lacks context — isolated images without captions, tags, or creator attribution, clipped paragraphs without reference to books, soundclips not albums.