A case study of a new sprout growing from a text that was dead due to social triggers.

Formerly titled: Social Triggers bring dead text back to life

tkgshn: (I see Nishio’s Scrapbox every day) I shared my tweet yesterday about the “systematization of the unknown” in the “Encyclopedia of the Unknown” without linking it to Nishio’s past notes (I’ve been manually creating a lurking bot) Hatena2010-06-11.

• Philosophy not to [Warehouse of dead texts

• But if the dead text is still sedimented with an old update date and time, there’s no real harm done. Get a hit on your search.

  • One pocket principle

• Importing Hatena Diary into Scrapbox

• This is an old experiment

• Import Hatena Diaries to Scrapbox with past dates

• Here is what actually took place in this project

Actual connections between “living topics” and past “dead texts” were discovered.

• What should happen at this time
• It’s not good to have pages that don’t have a proper title appear in the top updated list.
  • If you want to link a line to a long sentence, cut it out on a separate page.
• Depends on whether you can give it an appropriate title.
  • If you can attach it, we can make it a living page.

This case had the apt title Systematization of the unknown.

• A search for this keyword yielded two blog posts.
  • Hatena2010-04-18
  • Hatena2010-06-11
• I copied the necessary parts and created a new page.

I noticed it later. 6090e723aff09e0000fb61a4

Secure Override Operation When you update the script and convert it back, it’s sad when you overwrite it and lose the human-written text. This anxiety prevents us from “keeping it updated”. Don’t change the machine-generated page, just create a page with a good title that can be duplicated when you want to change it.

• I originally assumed that this imported stuff would not be edited, I forgot.
• Thanks to the fact that it was a machine-generated “page with no proper title,” it avoided editing itself.
• You titled this page “A case study of a socially triggered dead text brought back to life,” which is incorrect.
  • I thought the dead text was not brought back to life?
  • The dead text is given a plain title “It is a dead text,” thereby preventing direct human editing
    • Scrapbox doesn’t have such a feature, but I’d rather it be uneditable.
  • The dead text gave birth to a child.
    • ‘dead text’ was recognized as a metaphor for dead fish, but mismatch
    • Dead fish don’t have babies.
      • Like New shoots have sprouted from dead treesdead trees
  • Changed the title to “A Case Study of New Sprouts Growing from a Socially Triggered Dead Text”.
• [/rashitamemo/ the writer kills the information once and the reader resurrects it](https://scrapbox.io/rashitamemo/ the writer kills the information once and the reader resurrects it).
  • Books are dead text
  • The seeds in it can take root and sprout in the fields of the reader’s heart.
    • Dead texts are not brought back to life.
  • Some people chop up dead texts and put them on a shelf, that’s not budging.

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