This site deserves my closer look. Not so much for the link itself but the technical expertise that it links to that is so far beyond me in detail but self evident in comprehension of the macro system picture structure that all that detail systemically connects to.
It is an entirely new entry point for me from which to view what the few who know the system and wish to publish their technical observations for the general benefit of other tech knowledgeable experts (and tech dummies like me, but hey, I can read and connect to what they present).
In a roundabout way the link and what it links to is a sort of "Technical Investigative Journalism" although written for an extremely knowledgeable small tech sector that has a special interest in investigatory methods to reveal the truth.
http://www.durusau.net/
http://tm.durusau.net/ "Another Word For It" I think that is an intriguing title to parse!
My Parsing: Another word for complexity is simplicity once the structural nature of complexity has been fully parsed? Bottom up object oriented assembly to a top down view? There are only few major things at the top?
Maybe call those things at the top..........Topics?
Somehow I feel like I "get" Patrick Durusau although we are handshaking somewhere near the top. Somehow I implicitly trust his lower level expertise supporting the Topic.
Certainly worthy of my investigation!
For all my roaming around the WWW looking at things like this I have never run across the specific concept of Topic Maps, but things much like it for conceptual structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_Maps
Patrick is truly an interesting person!
http://www.durusau.net/general/background.html
This makes me wonder what my domain of expertise is as presented by my blog? http://aims.fao.org/community/profiles/pdurusau
http://www.topicmapslab.de/people/Patrick_Durusau?locale=en
A Topic Map might find it challenging to pull together all the things in my blog. On the other hand there is a thread that runs through it, with seemingly unrelated diversions. What might that Topic Map look like?
What might a Topic Map of everything under the Top of "2016 Election" under that name or another name for the same thing (make up your own creative appropriate name here) look like?
I ask the same question as Patrick: Who's on First? http://groups.lis.illinois.edu/guest_lectures/topicmaps.pdf I asked the same question here. Still don't know!
The difference is that he has an answer to finding out!
Patrick certainly presented a way of figuring it out quickly here: http://tm.durusau.net/?p=72337
This is an excellent example of grouping a number of related things under one Topic Map done in the old school way. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3889994/Influence-peddling-acting-Putin-s-ally-hiding-classified-secrets-sexting-FIVE-separate-FBI-cases-probing-virtually-one-Clinton-s-inner-circle-families.html
I think that Patrick would cut to the chase much quicker and better. He would make shorter work of this too: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/31/the-podesta-emails-show-who-runs-america-and-how-they-do-it The only requirement is that we understand the established Top Map Standard applied to the analysis. Like a language, but one that few of us speak. Semantic Web.
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