Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 16:02:30 BST 2020
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On Jun 4, 2020, at 09:24, Thomas Karpiniec <tkarpiniec at icloud.com> wrote:
I'm not clear what that would gain me as either an author or as a
reader?
Our Imagination is the limit :)
For example:
For one, as both an author & a reader, I like to have text anchored in time. Nothing happen in a vacuum.
gemini and text/gemini have no notion of time at all.
Instead people tend to compensate by haphazardly leaving contextual breadcrumbs here and there about such basic information:
⇲ gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/cornedbeef/=
microblogging-via-gemini-a-sketch.gmi 2020-06-01 - Microblogging via Gemini: a sketch=
replies-in-geminispace.gmi 2020-05-31 - Replies in Geminispace=
the-mercury-protocol.gmi 2020-05-26 - The Mercury Protocol=
tls-musings.gmi 2020-05-14 - TLS musings=
gemini-hearts-atom.gmi 2020-03-20 - Gemini ❤️s Atom!
⇲ gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/=
0001 0001 2019-08-01 PROPOSED MIME type and parameters for Gemini Index Files=
0002 0002 2019-08-01 ACCEPTED Resource request format for Gemini=
0003 0003 2019-08-01 PROPOSED Response header to include optional file size in reply=
0004 0004 2019-09-06 PROPOSED Gemini index format
The authorship tag gives a simple and consistent way to embed such date in the text/gemini document itself.
Furthermore, the tag provides, well, authorship information: who did it?
E.g. gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk points to solderpunk actual home at circumlunar.
This could be used creatively, by, say, uniquely styling ~solderpunk documents with sigil, color scheme, whatnot:
⌂ gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk → f01c0885 → 4028369029 → ~lapryt-fidseg → sigil
This provides a more stable and granular alternative to the host IP address or certificate.
Finally, the tag itself is rather readable on its own:
tag:gemini.conman.org <http://gemini.conman.org/>,2019-08-01:gRFC/0002 <gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/0002>#20:46:12
One tag, covering the Who, When, and What, in one fell swoop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ws>
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