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criticalartware
Version.3.1415926535

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after almost two years of development, criticalartware introduces liken, the
new substructure of the criticalartware [application/platform].

liken stores criticalartware's growing database of information, resources +
discourse as a collection of self-connecting nodes that anyone can add to [+/
or] comment on. the pathways connecting these nodes slowly change based
on use; more popular paths grow stronger, while weaker paths fade away.
these relationships are also described in a public XML file, making it possible
for anyone to develop alternate [interfaces/interpretations] of liken's unique +
ever-changing content + structure.

liken departs from a hierarchical site structure which over-categorizes
information, relinquishing some of the supremacy of "hard-coding" links
between documents. part discussion platform, part [plastic/collaborative] site
structure, + part [iterative/genetic] search engine, liken [encourages/
necessitates] a more [subjective/personalized] form of navigation. unlike
anonymous "browsing," the paths that liken users follow can be [stored/
reviewed/discussed], + affect the structure of the [application/platform]
itself,
creating a [literal/cybernetic] feedback loop in which less-used paths wither
away, well-used paths are strengthened, + entirely new paths grow +
crisscross recursively in response to discussion + new resources. like lichen,
itself a composite meta-organism resulting from the symbiotic growth of algae
+ fungus, liken's [form/structure/body] is [a/an] [product/agent] of
criticalartware's resources that grows symbiotically with related discourses.

furthermore, by using a publicly-accessible XML file to describe these
[pathways/relationships] of liken, criticalartware [invites/encourages] users to
develop [alternate/critical/"new"] ways of [imagining/visualizing/navigating]
liken's [pathways/relationships]. liken could easily be traversed as a 3D video
game, a mindmap, a soundEngine, or a Flash animation. in this way, liken is
the beta version of a criticalartware operating system, for which anyone can
develop compatible [applications/
plug-ins/skins/filters].

upload new person ? [Y/N]
http://www.criticalartware.net

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http://www.criticalartware.net

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