[Sigia-l] Keeping pages current on an intranet / Best Practic es

[Fiorito, David]

> So you think setting lead type for a pamphlet is equivalent to, say, going
> to Watson and automatically correlating all the movies playing with
theaters
> showing them within a given radius from home and reading reviews and
> actually seeing a trailer all with three simple clicks  is the same
> experience?

Yes.  The process is basically the same although the speed at which it is
completed is very different.  All you are talking about here is gathering
data and presenting it to an audience.  There is nothing revolutionary about
it.
 
> > Information exchange has always been a part of the human experience.
> 
> Yeah, but one would hope the means by which we deliver that exchange and
> thus the effect it can have on the users have evolved a bit since 1895.

Mechanisms may change but the essential transaction has not.  If we think
any differently then we are fooling ourselves.  Information exchange has
changed very little since the time we drew animals on cave walls.  A
provider of content chooses a medium of transfer, the relevant data, and
designs a presentation that the consumer of the content can use.

Frankly I see little difference between a cave painting telling where good
hunting could be found and the wireless service that tells me all of the
traffic conditions between my current location and my destination.  Its all
just communication.

Cheers,

Dave