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

[Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com>]

Len Bullard wrote:
> 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. :-)
>   
obviously you haven't been reading too many school essays lately ;-)
> len
>
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> From: Rick Marshall [mailto: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
>>>     
>>>       
>> 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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