Thread by @RobertHaisfield

I love this part of the @worldbrain vision. You can create a collection for web pages. Others can follow/join if they are interested in the subject. You can then set the rules for participating in an online conversation between community members that spans across many web pages.

https://twitter.com/blackforestboi/status/1351821991402209282

Imagine this... I want to create a collection for all of the behavioral science articles I read, and know a few other people who I trust to add good articles to it. They could be set as co-curators, or just follow the collection. We’d then talk about each article on the article!

It’s sort of like if we set up a forum for ourselves to discuss articles, except the forum follows us around. It’s like placing my own comments section on someone else’s site.

It’s like if I made a weekly newsletter that shares links I curate, except instead of bundling them up all at once, people can just follow a collection in @worldbrain as I add new pages and annotations. It makes it real-time and interactive.

Now we’ve got an interesting challenge. What if I’m curating two collections- Behavioral Science and Tools for Thought, and I add one article to both.

People who are following either collection can respond to the comments that I leave. How will replies to those comments appear?

https://twitter.com/blackforestboi/status/1351821981025509377

Ultimately, we realized that while a page could categorically fall into multiple collections, each collection’s followers are having a separate conversation. The replies related to Tools for Thought would feel intrusive in the context of the conversation around Behavioral Science

So we’ll have two views. The curator will be able to see all of the replies to their comments from any of their collections at once, as you see in the screenshot in QT. This grants them some “moderator superpowers”

https://twitter.com/blackforestboi/status/1351821987325337600

The followers (term not solidified) see comments for one collection at a time - the one they came to the article through. Eventually, they’ll be able to see something like, “Conversations about this page are also happening in these other collections. Would you like to see those?”

https://twitter.com/blackforestboi/status/1351821988961128448

As a collection curator, I’ll be able to set certain rules around this. For example, should people have to follow my collection to see the conversation happening or to respond to it? Are replies constrained to a certain size? Should certain members be co-curators?

https://twitter.com/blackforestboi/status/1351821991402209282

Eventually, we do intend to allow people to make *intentional* bridges between the conversations in dif collections and we’ll have a pretty interesting way of mapping knowledge/conversations across the web... but that’s a future design challenge, still a lot of open questions 😉

I would *love* to see the med journal use cases that Ivan described. The analogy in his next tweet is great- it’s like an online alternative to the discussion about papers at conferences people have between presentations.

https://twitter.com/ivanmkurnia/status/1351900040139141122