[Sigia-l] Information Architect Job Openings with LDS Church

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"Mark Brand" wrote:
> Mines are a tragedy - a technical fix such as this, is not the answer to
> anything at all. 

So if these color-changing plants planted, say, on a mountain pass with
mines save lives, it's not an "answer to anything at all"? That's like
saying unless/until we can cure cancer hospitals are a waste of time and
space.

> It certainly is possible "mine detecting plants" have some relevance on an IA
> list, unfortunately  the lighthearted manner in which the issue was dealt
> with, trivialised and hid important social and political problems..

We're not here to debate "important social and political problems" at large.
I posted the original story here because of my long time, and often
repeated, conviction that IA is not and should not be limited to the web or
even to the digital realm. You can find excellent IA work done by
cartographers or biologists, for example, decades or centuries ago. The only
other comments about the story (that I recall) were on the info arch vs.
info design debate, which we've had here several times, a nuance you likely
missed.

> Eric Scheid wrote:

>> If you do, I would recommend you include wordings along the line that
>> although discouraged by a decidedly unwelcoming dummy-spit by one member,
>> you've received other far more encouraging emails off list.

I find it hilarious that we have people here who try to coach new members in
private email on what to say to the list and how to say it, as if they have
no mind of their own. It reminds me of certain corporations and political
parties working in concealment to get people to write seemingly spontaneous
letters to the editor with embedded 'talking points.'

>> The last thing we want to do is let him (or others) think it's OK to be so
>> nasty because it "provoked you to contribute to the list".

I'm not the person who, with his first post, insulted the entire list by
declaring it to be a "waste of space and time."
 
Since we're gratuitously giving out advice, it's not good etiquette to quote
publicly from email send privately, although in this case the private
conversation reveals how one of the members here lives to annoy me, on or
off the list.  

Ziya
Nullius in Verba