Mike Caulfield writes: Was contacted the other day by a reporter who said my writing on digital gardens during my work with @WardCunningham had inspired the people she was talking to about the digital garden movement -- nice to see something come to fruition like this. tweet 
> **Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet**
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> A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media. article
What's funny is she said that people she was talking to cited that Garden and the Stream keynote I gave at dLRN 2015 as one of the works influencing them, and what I remember most about that keynote was people not understanding what I was talking about. article
More generally, after three years of relentlessly promoting the idea of garden-oriented social media as a necessary balance to stream-based social media if you had asked me in 2016 how it all went, I think I would have said, honestly, I failed to get people on board.
Anyway, to all fellow occassional keynoters out there, sometimes the ones that go most poorly in the moment end up having more lasting impact than the ones that just click. Keep that in mind for the next time you're beating yourself up in the hotel bar.
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Mike Caulfield argues for a move from streams of response and reaction to gardens of connections, of intentional, designed, thoughtfully constructed spaces. Keynote: The Garden and the Stream blog.
The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral. Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Mike Caulfield. post