User:Tommi/PMOMMs/The Trip
When I was a kid, my godmother Marina, who was also my catechist, taught me that the deepest, truest way to read the Bible was to do it by reading the Jerusalem Bible, which contains margin references to other passages of the whole bible that somehow relate to the present one. She suggested me to read until there is a passage that speaks to me, then get to the closest reference, read it, and so on. If you do it well, you truly feel like God is talking to you
. Be it because of confirmation bias, or because I had a more vehement and unhinged way of processing emotions back then, I felt it. I realised that there was a message, tailored for me (and, unwillingly, by me), that was emerging out of a universal word, written millennia ago. It was magic, or, most simply, the most concrete validation of my Catholic faith.
The years went by, and my belief shifted wildly, as did my faith and my Catholic practice too. Nevertheless, one thing clearly stuck with me, and planted the seed of one of the strongest values guiding me. The connections, a.k.a. the Crossovers.
- Internet wandering and Internet Awesomeness
- Enthusiasm-driven emails
- Incontro con Marco Ponti al caffè saltando una lezione di chimica
- Distrarmi dagli studi di funzioni per Analisi I per scoprire la storia delle colonne sonore di musica classica che ascoltavo nel frattempo
- Web Wandering e Internet Awesomeness
What is it?
The Trip is the experience of surfing the Web and making a story out of it.
Rapid prototypes
Form: How did you get here?
It would be so cool to also add a form on my (possibly every) personal website, asking how did you get here?
, and map social graphs and relationships that lead to a specific person, to a specific corner of the Web.
People would be asked to reply by sharing step-by-step all the other pages and websites, as well as offline social interactions, that led to that specific page and that specific website.
Web Trip Companion
The Web Trip Companion is a browser extension that records your browsing and makes a story out of it. It is the software component of The Trip.
Notes from Manetta’s feedback
- Very specific questions to be asking to people? Interviews focused on some themes
- What is the reason to track social graphs?
- Contextualise the relationships that links signify.
- Playing with Reticulum and diving deeper into it to find a connection.
- Research log.