@craigoverend.com

Nerd on the fringe of society plotting combinatorial explosion ala Pinky and the Brain.

Brain: Here we are, Pinky--at the dawn of time!
Pinky: Narf, Brain. Wake me at the noon of time.

I spend most of my time thinking about the underlying geometry of dynamical systems and what they have in common; whether that's distributed networks, systems biology or theoretical physics.

I'm currently working on a geometrically inspired, reflective and distributed digital information architecture that I hope to subsume current digital information architecture with. A good analogy would be how biological cells ensure the integrity of an organism by distributing the evolving genetic code used to construct the cells, amongst the cells. The philosophy behind the architecture also extends to the fields of Combinatorial Genomics, Programmable Matter, Machine Learning and General Intelligence. Basically any scale invariant dynamical system within a Multiverse (whatever that loaded term means to you).

For all of my interests, please see my bookmarks or email me at craig.overend [at gmail dotcom]

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Jan 16

Hit a snag with my devious plan

Tumblr has been truncating the @craigoverend.com tagged bookmarks on delicious.com I’ve been using as my blog entry mechanism. Sigh. Blogging this way keeps all my ‘resource identifiers’, posts, bookmarks replicated and centrally controlled in delicious (and replicated in my browser!) even though my data then becomes distributed in online services. From delicious I can blog, bookmark or disseminate! I just tag my resources for other services capable of pulling a feed in.

Alas, today I’ve just learnt of another service that does something similar for files. Pixelpipe. My method differs in that any resource I tag, or what I call actagons (get it? act-tag-on-s; act on… tags as points… poly-gon by joining the points… - ah forget it :) and pixelpipe call router tags - can be disseminated from the one ‘identifier store’.

I can tag my photos uploaded to flickr, on facebook, anywhere, or any kind of resource I create, then feed those via tag feed into any service that will take it - like tumblr! Only they truncate items in the feed…

Ideally I’d like service providers, as I interact with them, to provide a feed of my data out as I go about creating it on their sites - and not just for resources but for actions I perform too! I just want a feed with my content, with ‘user-driven’ predicates used as semantics describing that content! Simple! This way, for all the data I enter into these services, I can then pull and store (or cache redundantly) it and not lose the rich information I create when all these web2 sites eventually fold or ‘have accidents/licence disagreements!’. I could even push/pull and republish that same data easily from one central place. Disseminating not as Pixelpipe do, where they customise to the liquorice-all-sorts APIs that are out there, but with a feed standard - perhaps Microsoft’s pub/sub Mesh.

I’ve sent a feature request for full feeds to tumblr… but ultimately I’m writing software of my own to store this information, disseminate, and ‘template’ aka create different views of my data. First step is a distributed immutable data/code platform based on my own single-morphism shellcode and purely distributed programming language to allow me to write my distributed applications (and operating system) on top of - that’s coming along nicely. [update: I’ve just recruited (OK; he recruited me) an ex-Siemens communications engineer to help manage me (and boy do I need managing!)]

Alas, nothing much to show as yet.