[Sigia-l] RE: what would porphyry do? (was apple and pears)

[Jeffrey Fisher]

[obviously, that should have been porphyry, not prophyry. 
sigh. what i get for trying to be all clever and stuff but 
not paying attention to my typing. - j]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:51:22 -0600, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:19:11 -0800, Peter Merholz wrote:
>>  as the
>>  field matures, it becomes clear that those graphically-oriented beginnings
>>  are not well-suited to the direction that IA is taking, which involves
>>  understanding and portraying relationships within 
>> complex information spaces
>>  that simply goes beyond what can portrayed in a pretty diagram.
> 
> peter,
> 
> this seems to me the most interesting and important point 
> in the conversation, thus far, not because it disses the 
> graphically-oriented beginnings, but because it speaks to 
> the evolution of interaction and communication and to the 
> challenges of adapting (so to speak) to the changes in the 
> local ecology. your statement here begs three questions 
> (which, btw, i see as a virtue rather than as a failing):
> 
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