Like misery, hyperactive-firing-on-all-cylinders synapses love company ... Although right here in this group is fine by me, I'm interested wherever discussion happens.
On Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 11:30:48 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > Charlie, Tones, TiddlyTweeter > > first off, I hold you personally responsible for firing up my dormant > synapses. Thanks for that, you have provided renewed impetus for me to > continue pondering these issues, which I essentially ceased to do in any > meaningful way since I left my research position at CSIRO (the Federal > Government's research body in Australia). A dormant area of my brain has > reawakened :-) This will also require me to unbox my library so suitable > books can be re-queried (all my books are in storage as we have been living > most of the time in South Korea for the past decade. Corona has left us > 'stranded' in Sydney). > > I will respond to the recent postings but, like Tones, need to think > things through a bit more rather than provide a rambling nonsense of ideas > and thoughts. > > One thought though. Maybe it is time to take discussion outside of this > group. Not that I want to disenfranchise anybody but the discussion has > wider ramifications/application than Tiddlywiki. It also can be applied to > Mediawiki and even Bill Atkinson's original Hypercard and its offshoots. > Also, this discussion can then take advantage to TW's linking facility, > etc. Just a thought. > > Ciao for now. > > bobj > On Wednesday, 2 December 2020 at 14:19:52 UTC+11 Bob Jansen wrote: > >> TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> "Very good case example (http://cultconv.com/ [footnote---on mobile its >> too minuscule!])." >> >> yes, I know of the sizing issue on mobile devices. Not sure how to handle >> that other than a redesign which I am loathe to do given usage stats >> (~8,000 per month over last calendar year). The basic design is for >> multiple synchronous channels of information, in this case four >> (video/audio, transcript, table of contents and images with captions). >> Altogether too much for a small screen. Plus on iPhone, the video takes >> over the whole screen anyway. >> >> bobj >> >> On Tuesday, 1 December 2020 at 03:50:57 UTC+11 TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >>> Ciao bobj >>> >>> Very good case example (http://cultconv.com/ [footnote---on mobile its >>> too minuscule!]). >>> >>> BTW, I really took to your last point ... >>> >>> Throughout all of my research career, the issue that continually crops >>>> up is context. I think this is the crucial component to keep things >>>> understandable. Yet no agreed understanding of context exists yet we all >>>> use it ... >>>> >>> >>> Right. In terms of information design issues there is no algorithm for >>> accurately deriving either "scope of meaning" or "scope of inference >>> (context implying)". Though it is pretty clear on net that within "fields >>> of interest" context is ALWAYS playing an implicit role in successful sites. >>> >>> I thought the site you gave access to excellent. *Very honed to purpose*. >>> It is an unusual (uplifting) thing seeing such a "schematization" work so >>> well. >>> I think that is the point. You have to "sniff/tease" out context and >>> back generate (derive) schema from that first-felt understanding that isn't >>> otherwise derivable. >>> >>> Best wishes >>> TT >>> >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/71f3cb24-48d5-4fa8-abc6-b6a84664e8den%40googlegroups.com.
