[Sigia-l] Isn't that horse dead yet? (was: "meta-"navigation and before that: global navigation meta navigation)

[Eric Scheid]

On 6/6/05 1:35 PM, "Listera" <listera at rcn.com> wrote:

>> but what do you call that group of even smaller links scattered across the
>> bottom of the page
> 
> If geography is determinant here (as you seem to suggest) then call it the
> footer or bottom menu. I mean, who cares?

No, I'm not suggesting geography is determinant. I've avoided where possible
suggesting that.

 
> If you are going to coin a phrase to capitalize on it via
> blogs/book/seminars/etc, great, I can understand the urge.

I'm not, so can you please stop flogging that particular dead horse and it's
straw man rider. Sheesh.

You don't see me arguing that your resistance is due to a fear of the
marketplace becoming less confused and idiosyncratic, due partly to
educational/instructional activities such as seminars and lectures, and
partly to books which seek to document the collective knowledge and wisdom
of the practice of our industry. I can understand how whiz kid gurus that
are proud of being the lone gun on multi-million dollar projects get
threatened by this taming of the wilderness. Making that sort of argument,
no matter how close it hits, would be out of line. So I won't ;-)

> But this nomenclature bureaucracy is largely normative, not explanatory or
> even helpful. 

I've been striving to find a term which *is* explanatory. Otherwise I'd be
happy with "N128-001" as the bureaucratic term.

Communicating with peers is helpful.
          
> Context trumps everything else.


> Throwing around these "definitions" and then expecting/demanding the rest of
> us to fall in line in understanding or usage is folly.

Another straw man argument.

e.