Digitally Literate
Hi, I’m Ian.
I think about how we read, write, and learn in digital spaces.
Digitally Literate is my public garden: a working notebook for ideas that are
still growing, still connecting, and still changing.
If you want polished essays and formal projects, go to wiobyrne.com.
If you want the weekly newsletter, go to Substack.
If you want the messy middle, the experiments, and the half-formed thoughts,
you’re in the right place.
🌿 What this is
This site is a digital garden.
Notes grow here over time. Nothing is finished. Everything is evolving.
Ideas move through stages of maturity:
- 🌱 Seeds — quick notes, questions, fragments
- 🌿 Plants — developing connections and patterns
- 🌲 Evergreens — durable insights, polished and ready to share
- 🪴 Groves — curated clusters of related notes on a theme
- 🌳 Forests — big-picture syntheses across multiple groves
Start with the Groves, or wander from note to note and see what
connects.
🧭 What I’m exploring
Right now I’m thinking about:
- how personal knowledge tools connect to the open web
- how digital communities stay rooted in trust and stewardship
- how AI can amplify thinking without replacing it
- how digital literacy becomes collective sensemaking
Most posts touch one or more of these threads.
✳️ Connect
- 💬 Say hello: hello@digitallyliterate.net
- 🌍 Professional site: wiobyrne.com
- 📨 Join the newsletter: digitallyliterate.net/newsletter
Let’s build a more open, ethical, and human web. One connection at a time.
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