Re: [xml-dev] Webelo 2.0: The Mythed and Mythstery (WAS RE: [xml-dev]Yo

[Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com>]

is unilinear a tautology?

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