On Wed, 14 May 2003 cdent@blueoxen.org wrote: (01)
> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Peter P. Jones wrote:
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> Is there an algorithm for human communication? I don't think so.
> I think people talk and stuff happens, sometimes boring,
> sometimes interesting. (02)
Algorithm is not the word to use in a human interactive setting. However,
there are many norms, rules, protocols, scripts, etc. that govern (parts
of) human communication, especially in a work setting. (03)
> Wiki is a _tool_ not a method. It can be a tool that is a part of
> a method. Like most tools it works for some people and not for
> others. There is no one true tool. It's clear that it doesn't
> work so well for the goals you have mentioned (natural language
> processing, well defined classes of information rather than fuzzy
> categories of context). (04)
Mark Aakhus (who recently also joined this list) and I just got a paper
accepted for the upcoming Language/Action Perspective conference, called
"Argumentation Support: From Technologies to Tools". In the paper, we
claim that a technology only becomes a tool if it matches the particular
interaction needs of a community at a particular time in its lifecycle. (05)
Strictly speaking, a Wiki is thus a technology which *may* become a tool
that supports a method of interaction, collaboration, communication, etc.
In turn, the method should support the way of working required by the
community. (06)
Aldo (07)
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