[{"id":488,"title":"Social Jailbreak: a social media aggregator designed to circumvent social media monopolies","sha":"8e322a486ac6a4c98fd742580169e2d1","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"**Social Jailbreak** (SJB) describes a proposed viral application that would allow social media users to communicate beyond the limits imposed by social media monopolies. Several platforms (e.g. Hootsuite) and some social networks (mainly Friendica) merge their users' different newsfeeds that they have on other networks, to put them back in control and at the center of their entire online presence. Unfortunately, [the most popular social network](https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/) has [disallowed the importation](https://hyp.is/_uNnqLvVEeiorDdKMLuEfQ/www.makeuseof.com/tag/manage-social-feeds-hootsuite/) of personal newsfeeds. \r\n\r\nOne way to durably escape such social jails is to provide users a technical method to seamlessly share their soon-to-be jailed publications with others. While it is against the terms of social jails to export personal newsfeeds, personal contents can be published outside of the social jail *before* being fed to the social jail, and exchanged through the SJB parallel network, and if all the users appearing in each other's personal newsfeed have installed SJB (in a single click), they will all be able to consult and rearrange their newsfeed from outside any social jail. It will then be possible to merge all social contents (including forum messages, comments left anywhere, etc.).\r\n\r\nSocial Jailbreak would allow users to train their own algorithms, that would sort contents from those different sources in creative, emancipatory and non-mercantile ways (see MIT's [Gobo](https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/gobo/overview/)), thus breaking the spell of social jails.\r\n\r\n\r\n","created_at":"2018-09-19T06:52:52.478Z","updated_at":"2018-09-20T06:01:04.992Z","zenodo_id":1421986,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1421986","subject":null,"tags":["social media","algorithms","monopolies","freedom of association"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":669,"title":"Florilege: a mapping method and memory aid for mass collaboration and information overload management","sha":"67c6e2015a420b51258fd81cf794aad4","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Florilege is a mind-mapping method adapted to endeavors involving multiple minds or lines of thought. Florilege maps introduce the dimension of time to register open, iterative, sometimes errant, thought processes. Like traditional florilegia and commonplace books, Florilege maps support individuals and groups in their heuristic pursuits, even when they are poorly organized or involve overwhelming masses of information.\r\n\r\nFlorilege maps have a limited set of rules:\r\n(1) ideas are pasted chronologically from left to right, like the words they contain, constituting branches;\r\n(2) ideas sprouting from parts of a branch grow above or below it, depending on their inductive (above, more general ideas) or deductive (below, more particular ideas) nature;\r\n(3) new, abductive or disruptive ideas and branches are pasted further above or below but not in the past (left) or future (right) (rule 1);\r\n(4) striking or important ideas are graphically larger than the others;\r\n(5) minor ideas and overwhelming masses of information are graphically constrained in space;\r\n(6) recalling past lines of thought (branches) constitutes grafting and involves the copying of a past branch into a present branch, analogous to rule 2;\r\n(7) all types of media are allowed and may constitute flowers or fruits.\r\n\r\nThe Florilege, in its attempt to reproduce the way we think and to assist memory, revives Vannevar Bush’s project, the Memex (As We May Think, 1945).","created_at":"2020-01-09T19:34:08.834Z","updated_at":"2020-02-09T06:00:38.366Z","zenodo_id":3660062,"doi":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3660062","subject":null,"tags":["mind mapping","information","information overload","vannevar bush","commonplace books","collaboration","mass collaboration","data"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":true,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null}]