Digitally Literate

Hi, I'm Ian.

I think about how we read, write, and learn in digital spaces.

I care about tools that help people feel creative, capable, and connected. Not overwhelmed or extracted from.

This site is my working notebook. A place to think out loud, test ideas, and share what I'm learning as I go.

If you're looking for polished essays and formal projects, you'll find those at wiobyrne.com. If you want the messy middle, the experiments, questions, and half-formed thoughts, you're in the right place.

🌿 What this is

Digitally Literate 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

Not sure where to start? Explore the Groves, or just wander. Follow links. See what connects.

🧭 What I'm exploring lately

Right now I'm thinking about how we can:

reconnect personal knowledge tools to the open web
design digital communities around trust and stewardship
use AI as a cognitive amplifier (not a replacement for thinking)
treat digital literacy as 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.

Digitally Literate

Hi, I'm Ian.

🌿 What this is

🧭 What I'm exploring lately

✳️ Connect

Recently in the garden