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That’s a mouthful. I ran into this term while surfing with a Me.dium friend on the subject of collaborative thinking. According to Wikipedia, intertwingularity is defined by what it is not. Ted Nelson, who coined the term, said:“Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged, people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can’t. Everything is deeply intertwingled.”This of course, made me curiouser and curiouser (props to Alice in Wonderland). A little further digging brought me to Ortholog which attempts to define intertwingling:“…the property of things that dooms any attempt to categorize or arrange them into hierarchies as always being arbitrary…”My head is spinning, though I think I get it. In grade school, my teacher always made me use a new word in a sentence, so I’m going to give it a go:“The intertwingularity of web sites on Me.dium is the result of a complex interpretation of many users attention data.”There, I feel much better.

Me.dium is a community of altruism. We give to each other by providing our attention stream to the system which uses it to recommend highly relevant sites to us. This act creates an economic ecosystem where the goods and services of our Internet surfing are shared for mutual benefit.Such an economy creates a web of obligation, but also creates a web of abundance. Wikipedia is a great example of this, where information is contributed without remuneration.Me.dium too, depends on the sharing of others to create a thriving economy. The more we use it, the stronger it gets and the more important it becomes in our day-to-day lives. The benefit is immediate and reciprocity is automatic.