On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Tom Munnecke wrote: (01)
> Two of these "missing nothings"
> in our current language is the notion of all the stuff which clumps
> around a self-organizing entity (the Org idea), and the notion of seeing
> things flowing over time (what linguists call the diachronic perspective
> of language, as opposed to the snapshot-in-time synchronic approach).
> This is a huge subject which I know resonates with some of the group
> from private side conversations, but I am not sure whether it is
> appropriate for the whole list.... I'll heed guidance from the group
> whether this is off-topic. (02)
I think this is _very_ much on topic and would love to hear more
of your thoughts in this area. (03)
> With regard to specific "people" steps, I would suggest rethinking the
> user interface to allow a denser message format, in which conversation
> threads are one flat file that the user can simply scroll up and down,
> and hiding/unhiding components according to a navigation button. The
> display would also show the recipients of the message and how far they
> have read in the message. Multiple replies to the message would appear
> as multiple lines in the message, not as multiple messages... I've done
> some thinking on how to do this with DHTML and a new frontend to
> MailMan, for example, if anyone is interested in specific ideas... (04)
This sounds like a tool step, not a people step? (05)
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