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# Modest Operations | Newsletter Volume 12
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/modest-operations-newsletter-volume-12/
- Published: 2019-02-12T15:04:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-13T22:24:34.000Z
- Description: Modest Operations email newsletter Volume 12 (February 12, 2019).
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: orbital operations, modest operations, newsletter, warren ellis, #import-mailchimp-2026-09-13

Sarah and I just booked a trip to Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hong Kong later this month, which is tickling my research brain in all the right ways. Currently accepting any and all recommendations for things to eat, drink, and see!

On a related note, I'm still searching for the perfect tool for bookmarking places to go while traveling (or even while at home). I've been a longtime Foursquare / Swarm user, but I have a few small gripes with it, so I'm curious to hear about what other people use.

I'm looking for something that can save locations, let me add private notes about each location, display simple location metadata (address, phone number, website, etc), show my saved locations on a map, can log the places on the list that I've actually visited, and as a nice-to-have, is tied into a review database of some kind. Now that I've written that all down, it sounds like I have unreasonably high standards, but I don't *think* that's the case?

**This Week's Links** *A list of things I've been reading & thinking about.*\* "Something else for my to-do list is to retune my internet. I've been taking five minutes here and there, but I need to give it a couple of hours soon. Here are the rules. Facebook is for misery, so don't use it, at all. Twitter is for news, so just read it. Instagram is for joy, for as long as Instagram lasts, so filter it well. RSS is for information, good writing, music and the Isles of Blogging." - [(Warren Ellis for *Orbital Operations*)](https://orbitaloperations.cmail19.com/t/ViewEmail/d/2CDE5076586D3C162540EF23F30FEDED/5072850640DE79178BD4C707EBCCB890?ref=drewshannon.net) \* "Under ad-driven platform capitalism, everyone to some extent has to calibrate their statements like an advertiser, and market test their positions...Ted Nelson, who is a hero of mine and invented hypertext, had a conception of the web as a series of hardcoded attributions. So if you had an idea, every instance of your thinking online could be traced back to you (this inspired Saga). What eventually won out was Tim Berners-Lee’s conception of the web, in which the individual was free to do what they wanted to, unrestricted, with whatever information they came across, attribution be damned. So the individual could now say, “I like this, and like this, and like that,” package and market it, and receive all the spoils for their curation and marketing efforts. Does that sound familiar?" - [(Philosopher and digital artist Mat Dryhurst on redesigning the system (Mat Dryhurst for *The Creative Independent*)](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/philosopher-and-digital-artist-mat-dryhurst-on-redesigning-the-system/?ref=drewshannon.net) \* "These tools are reducing the amount of time and coding expertise required to translate an idea into something people can use. You no longer need to become a programmer to build things on the internet, empowering a new wave of makers from different backgrounds and perspectives." - [(The Rise of “No Code” – Ryan Hoover for *Medium)*](https://medium.com/@rrhoover/the-rise-of-no-code-e733d7c0944d?ref=drewshannon.net)