To your specific thoughts/questions, Liz.. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Elizabeth Bacon <[email protected]>wrote:
> If there's silicon, there's near-infinite > complexity to mold into order. Nicely put. I would maybe say if there's "software" instead of "silicon" (as per my recent discussion with Dave et al) ;o). > So stop any unproductive bickering and recognize that > yet again, your perspective on the issue comes from your own personal > context and "consensus" is impossible but clarification is. I guess there has been some stuff on the level of what you might call bickering, but I trust folks see the difference between that and thoughtful dialogue (even if you think the topic is "pointless"). And you know, consensus isn't necessarily the goal of dialog. I'd say it's more about a dialectical search for the truth. Even if we don't find agreement, we learn from each other and maybe even find a new path that no one quite expected. What would > people think of soon splitting the IxDA Discussion into various > sub-forums, to which you could subscribe/publish/observe etc.? This idea scares me, kinda. Just the multiplicity of it bears weight upon my already overloaded consciousness. But your later clarification that it could function more like tags is less threatening. > Specifically, one of which could be "Information Architecture". Maybe we should drop the historical titles and go with the things they sort of map to on the mentioned Venn diagram? Like "content" "structure" "behavior" etc.? IOW, I'd be interested in seeing the community come up with less loaded/apparently-controversial terms for its categories. > Constructive or unhelpful? I get worried about subdividing > the conversation on nearly un-definable grounds; like, IxDA would > never want a stand-alone"Prototyping" forum...or would we? Thanks > for your thoughts about IxDA IA... ;) > Yeah, I think it lends toward divisive, as noted. Even if we can't agree what to call The Umbrella, we recognize there are different interests and activities and concerns within it. Maybe we can find good, non-controversial tags for these things. I'm curious how emailers might tag their emails. Or is this a moderation/post-hoc thing? I can see, e.g., saying like just say "tags: tag, tag, tag" at the end of your message to tag it from email. That would be nifty. Then maybe I could customize my email subsription to those tags I'm interested in. Can you tell I think tags are better than forums? :o) Let me do Faceted Navigation on the Big List. Don't make me decide up front what things I'm interested in and then have to pogostick around between forums of interest. HTH. If not, sorry! -ambrose ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
