2 March '26

Frode: Something fix, something free Sam Broca said it clear for the whole room to see The paper is the anchor, it holds its ground But the space between the papers, that's where meaning's found Jazz musicians know it, they've known it for years Lay down the structure, then improvise the ideas Text is the fixed thing, the squiggles on the page But meaning lives inside you, not inside the cage Pro-read from a Bible scholar, let the point ring true Reading isn't excavating, the meaning comes from you Apple Vision Pro ACM Hypertext 2023 loaded up the show 30 papers floating, linked by lines when selected Focus mode collapses everything that isn't directly connected D for deselect, A for show all snap to zero Z like and hide unsavable views That's how you work the space free Claude feeds him the no data Term colon, description colon, category he lifts it in by hand The pipeline's not clean yet, that's the story Sam Brokaw's co-host of ACM Hypertext 2026 London September 14 to 18, put that date in the mix The theme, hypertext, method, not just the technology Nonlinear network, anemic, a whole epistemology And there's two sets, the grammar of the space that we're creating Is there a space child who decides or are we all still waiting? He warned over summarizing strips the new ones clean away Exhaust should introduce complexity not just compress the day Put his headset on, showed the Wikipedia page in XR Virtual reality entry, hierarchical nodes, he didn't go too far Title first, then outline, then full text as you step in close Brace a disclosure by proximity It's the design he values most Blue nodes, of text, red notes, a bare hands and controllers both in play. He gave the same bill to his students and said, do something better today. Then he laid down the Orcums Razor test. No one has passed it yet. Would you use this alone with no demo to give? That's the question you can't forget. said that looks like fridge magnets on a wall are we really leveraging three dimensions here at all can agree And lies may not land, needs human subjects testing Peter Demetrio's ass, does texting XR just a pop-up book worth addressing? Sam's final question cut the deepest before he left to feed his cat Is all that swiping navigation, or are you building through the act? Minority reports, gestures just moved you scene to scene If the spatial interface is only interstitial, what does that mean? distance scaling click for everyone frost stopping by woods on the wall getting denser as you run closer through the virtual space title blooms to outline blooms to verse folks said that iconic distance idea is something we should nerd Trio's wrote it in the chat, felt it locked mid-session We are writing a shared illuminator manuscript, that's the confession Randall's at your nut, raised David Kersh at the Stemmic Actions Piling sort custom environments, colored zones in space The furniture of thought, Project Syverson came up Peter Wazilko loved that captain's chair The mother of all demos, credited Herman Miller you Was there Wolfgang? Eyes are on interpretation, Canonicity's double-edged wrist, Ken's weaker, knows that she is in you, Ed Duperlin, add that to the list. I asked Ken Panagrahi back after some weeks, suggested Gathers proximity sound, maybe proximity based controls for text notes, worth looking around, Tom's eye despises blog augmented text, info the future text love site, Peter was ill-cov- Called for wordnet since it's augmenting every word inside ACM hypertext September, Sam says come and bring your best The map save is still broken, Frode says the fix is coming more or less Next Monday continues the conference thread goes wherever it decides. Frodo feed the meeting to Florida. Plot three of names, keywords, and asides. He'll send plain out text again, so the same data lives in different views. Two systems, one data set. Let's see what each approach accrues. Is Sam left hanging as he went to mind his cats? Is the spatial layer navigation or is it where the knowledge acts? Are you moving between the paper's body weight and hands in space? Or are you building something new inside that kinesthetic place? Something fit, something free the jazz musicians always say. But nobody knows yet which is which in XR Today All all creation Where does knowledge live? In the space between the nodes All the nodes themselves we give Something fit, something free That's the jazz musician's creed The paper holds the structure But the space is where we read you