Archives for the 'Multimedia and Language' Category
Repurpose
This is interesting: Repurposing morphs into creativity.
Repurpose is a powerful concept. It allows to pick up the emphasis on one thing and utilize it for the emphasis on another thing which is somehow related to the original thing. So the emphasis on repurposing itself can be (creatively) repurposed into the emphasis on creativity. Can “repurpose” even be repurposed into “morph” such that “repurposing” [...]
Acronyms and blog names
I hate corporate homepages where the company’s acronym is not explained. Read more….
Connective Writing and Anti-social Reading
Reading is antisocial, but writing is first and foremost about creating a community of writers ? Read more….
Concepts of concepts
Stimulated by D. Grey’s detailed posting “On the concept of a concept”, I tried to depict my view of concepts. Read more….
Trendspotter’s literacy prediction
“The end of the written word”, this is much food for thought. Read more…
Blogger Kleist?
After reading M. Lessard’s “Expression et transformation de la connaissance” in today’s Zero Seconde, Kleist (1777-1811, “Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden”) would perhaps have written a comment “On the Gradual Production of Thoughts Whilst Blogging” into his blog. See also chapter 1.1 in this PDF.
Usability and Translation
This thread of the dotLRN (open-source eLearning platform) forum suggests how much translation is tied to usability: in some cases, translators are needed to make the US original more readable.
Indo-Europeans were more Multimedial than we
Looking at word roots, an interesting observation can be made: “multimedial” subject groups are over-represented … more
Funnel language
“The alphabet is a funnel”, says R. Horn - in his visual language, of course.
Verb and gender in multimedia grammar
Multimedia “grammar” could use the hyperlink as the verb, and the link type (hierarchical or cross-reference) as the gender of verb….
