My advice to the Public Conversations Project (who are awesome, BTW) in response to them posing a question about social media and “Can real dialogue be practiced online, modeled in a way that will shift online conversations from torrents to curiosity, from blame to understanding?” Don’t confuse “online” with “Twitter“ I think the strength of [...]
From David Barringer’s “Myths of the Self-Taught Designer” in his book of essays and more, There’s Nothing Funny about Design (and available online in parts 1, 2 and 3). Designed as a dialogue, this piece is, as Barringer says, “a hybrid mess of a literary shenanigan, inspired by the dialogues of the philosopher Denis Diderot (1713–1784). [...]
I love posting from The Tree of Knowledge. This is what they have to say about tubes (emphasis mine): Our discussion has led us to conclude that, biologically, there is no “transmitted information” in communication. Communication takes place each time there is behaivioral coupling in a realm of structural coupling. This conclusion is surprising only [...]
