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       title: Anagora

     

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       An Agora implementation by @Flancian.

     

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       The concept is to have nodes / notes where people maintain their own digital notes garden like I do here, but then pull them in and link them through their public git repos. Aka a "distributed knowledge graph".

     

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       The [Agora Plan](https://anagora.org/node/agora-plan) page has more details, including a link to the [[Agora Server::https://github.com/flancian/agora-server]]. It is written in Python / Flask and is open source under the Apache2 license.

     

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       link: http://www.bigfootjs.com/

     

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       github: https://github.com/lemonmade/bigfoot

     

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       A jQuery plugin for empowering footnotes.

     

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       > Bigfoot is a jQuery plugin that creates exceptional footnotes. Simply include the code on your pages and footnotes will be detected automatically and improved in the following ways:

     

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       >* The active popovers will be resized and repositioned to ensure that they continue to be completely visible on-screen and aesthetically pleasing: this makes it perfect for mobile devices and responsive designs.

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       It's archives all the way down! The long(er) form content from the (original) `blog.bmannconsulting.com` has all been imported here. I swapped the domain to [[Micro.blog]], and that's where I post photos and short content. The [[Colophon]] page covers "this" site.

     

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       It's archives all the way down! This is archive version of how I've run my blog over the years. The [[Colophon]] page covers "this" site, which is sort of a superset archive. The plan is I'll keep it active from now on in this Digital Notes Garden format.

     

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       This blog is currently powered by [Jekyll 4](http://jekyllrb.com) hosted on [Netlify](http://netlify.com). Netlify builds the site from a private git repo on Github.

     

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       This is my space for Notes[[Yes, basically a personal wiki, although becoming known as a <a href="../secondbrain/">Second Brain</a>::lmn]], saving and highlighting Articles and other Links.[[My general rule is that if I share something with two people, I should capture it as a local note.::rmn]]

     

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       You can browse current and past [[Projects]]. These are mainly small [[Vancouver]] focused things, I'm pretty busy as the founder of [[Fission]].[[Check out the <a href='https://blog.fission.codes'>Fission blog</a>.::rmn]]

     

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       You can browse current and past [[Projects]]. These are mainly small [[Vancouver]] focused things, I'm pretty busy as the founder of [[Fission]].[[Check out the <a href='https://blog.fission.codes'>Fission blog</a>.::lmn]]

     

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       Starting with the [[Startup]] note, there are various recommendations, products, and recommendations to explore.

     

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       If I haven't sent it to you already, you should read [[When Tailwinds Vanish: The Internet in the 2020s]].[[Software companies founded today are competing less with pen and paper than with other Internet-first incumbents. Put another way, as happens in every maturing industry before it, Internet company revenue will become zero-sum. As a corollary, the time between founding years of software startups and their competitive incumbents is shrinking — <a href='https://luttig.substack.com/p/when-tailwinds-vanish'>When Tailwinds Vanish</a>::rmn]]

     

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       <script type="text/javascript" src="https://micro.blog/sidebar.js?username=bmann&count=5"></script>