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RE: Webelo 2.0: The Mythed and Mythstery (WAS RE: Y

• From: "Len Bullard" <cbullard@h...>
• To: "'Rick Marshall'" <rjm@z...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:10:55 -0600

So it would seem but the handwriting was bad enough that they might have
been scribbling something else.

On the other hand, linear can go in two directions, yes?  Text only reads in
one unless someone is keeping secrets from me again. :-)

len


From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...] 
 
is unilinear a tautology?

Len Bullard wrote:
>> From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@C...] 
>>     
>
>   
>> Have you seen this one on XML and Web 2.0 yet?  Be sure to have the 
>> sound on for the music.
>>     
>
>   
>>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
>>     
>
> Text is unilinear.  
>
> o  Information is situated.
>
> Form is separated from content  
>
> o  Formless content is more complex than situated content.
>
> HTML is complicated code.
>
> o  CSS + XML is more complicated code.  CSS + XML + XQuery + SQL is more
> complicated than that.
>
> XML was invented to separate form from content.
>
> o  XML was invented to prove SGML + HyTime + DSSSL was bad.
>
> XML facilitates automated data exchange
>
> o  XML feeds complicated syntax to complicated code written in dumbed down
> C.
>
> XML allows people to upload text without writing complicated code 
>
> o  if they use less powerful unilinear text entry applications written in
> complicated code.
>
> o  Video too:  if they learn to manage a firewall.
>
> o  Writing to a blog only requires you to type in unilinear text.
>
> o  Each time we forge a link, we state an opinion.
>
> o  Each time a link asserts a false relationship, we publish superstition.
>
> o  Web 2.0 is linking opinions into mass superstitions that are retarding
> the planet.
>
> o  ... and foisting bad loops off as good music.
>
> o  Bad loops are a good reason to turn off the sound.
>
> The web is more of less and less of better.
>
> The web is linking more of less.
>
> We need to think more about rethinking less.
>
> See Gresham's Law.  See YouTube/Viacom.
>
> len
>
>
>
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