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The goal of this blog of 4,640 daily posts has been to offer helpful ideas to whoever happens to read this thing I named Probaway. The thought I had in mind when naming it that first day was to “probe away” at ideas that I thought would be helpful to people in specific and humanity in general.
It was a New Year’s resolution to write thirty posts in one month because I didn’t think I had more than thirty ideas worth writing about. I had previously spent a couple of years writing a thing I called Proba, which was a magazine with a single idea explored on each page that I thought might be helpful to my readers. It was designed to be xeroxed so people could give a copy to their friends easily. That idea came so early in the computer era that a paper copy seemed a reasonable way to communicate new ideas. It did have some fantastic ideas that never became common knowledge, though they should, like Conan Doyle being Jack the Ripper.
Another precursor was Probaway.com which explored a few more ideas, but it included links to the earlier Proba stuff.
I did come up with some amazingly prescient precursors to today’s web. For example, in 1999 I published a Google Earth precursor to street-view of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley California, with visits inside the buildings. Google has only recently been pursuing that and putting an icon on the overview map for the businesses that cooperate.
I am more interested in exploring ideas than convincing other people that they ought to believe them and use them.
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