What Is Information Farming?

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Kathy Marshall at Xerox Park originally started speaking about information gardening. She developed an early tool that's the inspiration for the Tenderbox Mac view in which you would have boxes but no lines. It was a hyper of spatial hypertext system, a system for connecting things by placing them near each other rather than drawing a line between them. And so dragging things around the map view is a terrific representational solution.

Mark Bernstein is chief scientist of Eastgate Systems, Inc. He’s been writing hypertexts and developing hypertext authoring software since the late 1980s. Mark is the creator of Tinderbox and other tools for thinking that “harness the power of the link.” In this conversation, we discuss thinking through connected notes.

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