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What is this thing on the Home Page?
This is a demo for a Technology called Simili MemeWeb and our first product concept, Storyverse. This demo features the Advanced Semantic Tree Retrieval Agent(ASTRA) browser and the
The Website
This is a stripped-down website purely for the demo. With a Welcome Page and supporting Pages. There are more than 30 posts in this site, but your access to them is through the ASTRA browser. This site is dedicated to a new way of browsing content, so it is unusual.
The Pieces
Trees
The Classic Tree, which I created using WordPress. The tree itself is WordPress, but my technology manage and renders it. This is the tree with 3 links you see near the bottom in The Orchard.
Them Apples
The Athena Tree. Our first automated tag-generated set of 5 Trees. Each representing an important tag, or Bough of a bigger tree. WordPress and other Web-builders give you an empty canvas they expect you to fill. This is hard enough, but creating a good, harmonized tree is beyond most site owners, but our technology does it automatically on a schedule. For readers, our Athena Trees give you many pathways to dive deep into a Website. The Storyverse. This is a use case for ASTRA and Athena. A science fiction website with a novella is entertaining content in its own right that you can get to know. First in a normal, classic website format, then, deconstructed in Athena trees, evolving as crowd-written content is posted. I started this project because a friend with a 1,000 post WordPress site complained of dwindling views by an aging population of regulars who only show up when he publishes a new post. That’s an unfortunate result of a Blog pattern, designed to make posts perishable over time. A waste, since he is a historian and his site, Streetcar.org, a treasure-trove of San Francisco Streetcar/Cable car history. So I decided for my big post-blindness project to create a technology to identify all the stories in that site and gives you an easy way to explore them. It took me 3 years to get to this demo. I took it on as my Blind project and truly big impact on the Web, drawing to a close 20 years as a Web Developer. It’s a Pilgrimage forcing me to scrutinize Meaning, since MemeWeb is a meaning technology. I declare myself a Pilgrim not as an embellishment. This is a genuine accomplishment taken under great hardship. I’ve earned it. And after so many failures and lost chances, my last chance to regainb honor AND give our species THE MEANS to unlock knowledge from the Internet, creating the portable Human Knowledge-base.Why I did this