The link at the end, to Maggie Appleton's A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden[1], remains one of the top reads I can name for considering the essence

The link at the end, to Maggie Appleton's A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden[1], remains one of the top reads I can name for considering the essence of digital gardening. Personally I think one thing I feel is missing is a sense of space. Part of the garden walk, the stross, & the sense of growth & belonging that a garden has emerge from it's persistence, from watching new things come & go in space. I don't think that's a pre-requisite for digital gardens at all, but I do think information architecture could benefit enormously from this aspect of the garden, in particular, from how spatialized memory is, and how good humans are at perceiving changes over time when we revisit a place which has changed. Overall there's an undercurrent here that I think the digital garden indirectly speaks strongly to, but still isn't well defined & directly speaking to. I believe there's a desire for more ecological forms of the virtual, for information spaces & information architectures that allow for waxing and wanings, for interrelation, for emergence. [1] https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history