[Sigia-l] We could just use whiteboards instead.

[Adrian Howard]

On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 12:57  am, Listera wrote:

> "Darci Chapman" wrote:
>
>> Just because something is spiffy and new does not inherently make the 
>> old
>> stuff obsolete.
>
> Unless, of course, you are actually in the business of making spiffy 
> and new
> stuff. If you don't like recorded books, I'd suggest that you don't 
> work for
> audible.com, "audio that speaks to you *wherever* you are." But if you 
> are
> working there, to re-examine your priorities. We are in the business of
> creating online apps and sites, created with computers and run 
> exclusively
> on computers. There's no point pretending technology is the bogeyman 
> here;
> we are in it neck deep already.

I don't think anybody is saying that technology is a bogeyman. At least 
I'm not. I *love* technology. Ask anybody :-)

All I'm saying is that the technology does not exist to support some of 
my working practices as well as a wall of post-it notes does. I don't 
use a wall of post-it notes because I'm a technophobe. I use it because 
it does a better job than any other tool I have used in the same 
context. I have tried and abandoned tools like Visio in this context 
because they do not perform as well - not because I'm scared of them.

I don't see how the technology used for the end-product has any 
relation to the tools and techniques used to develop it. I use the most 
effective tools I can find. Digital or analog.

Adrian