John, I love what you say. A wiki not only promotes getting the transcriptions right but fosters cross links and links to other authors etc. My first thought is to add meta-pages in "Dialogue Mapping" (IBIS) form where the ideas presented are required to link to the questions they answer. It is amazing how knowing the question clarifies the idea. I did find a page with dozens of Alan Kay's papers available, but having them in a form where I get to converse with other reader about them attracts my attention.
Will automatic or low-cost human speech to text systems help for those essays now only available in auditory form? I'm not good at transcribing, but detecting typos, thinkos, and awkward constructions is easy for me so I'll volunteer to do that for your new wiki. Richard On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:41 AM, John Zabroski <[email protected]>wrote: > Folks, > > I am going to take a break from the previous thread of discussion. > Instead, it seems like most people need a tutorial in how to think BIG. > > One person in the last thread asked me how I would design a language in > light of what I know about programming language theory, with questions > ranging all over the subject of how to design languages and how to pick the > right language. I get e-mailed questions like this surprisingly often, such > that I want to eventually publish a FAQ on these things. > > However, I think before I do that, people should be much more intimately > familiar with Alan Kay, Ian Piumarta, and their ideas. > > What I am going to do is gather together a list of Alan's speeches and > interviews and any published media about him I can get my hands on and > assembly it into a wiki, the wik-kay. > > If you're interested in helping, let me know. I am going to start by fully > transcribing Alan Kay's 1997 OOPSLA speech The Computer Revolution Hasn't > Happened Yet, since I've watched it about 20 times so far and am surprised > I've not transfered it to text for faster consumption and easier quoting. > I'll probably hopefully set-up an Etherpad server so people can help > collaborative transcribe this with me (Google Wave is pure garbage at these > kinds of tasks, but Etherpad is the bomb-diggity). > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > -- Richard Karpinski, Nitpicker extraordinaire 148 Sequoia Circle, Santa Rosa, CA 95401 Home: 707-546-6760 http://nitpicker.pbwiki.com/
_______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
