{"id":138,"date":"2008-03-16T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-03-16T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T14:54:00","slug":"writing-in-the-electronic-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/writing-in-the-electronic-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in the electronic margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/04\/04\/09\/15OPstrategic_1.html\">interesting article<\/a> about the importance of being able to &#8220;write in the margins&#8221; and how that functionality has been neglected in computer systems in favor of the designer trying (in vain) to figure it all out ahead of time.  I love this quote:<br \/><span class=\"artText\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fuzzy intersection of official and unofficial data has never been a comfort zone for information technologists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How true&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It also follows a theme that has been recurring lately, which might be summed up as &#8220;computer science is hard:&#8221; in a sense we are trying to re-create the world from scratch, which is a very difficult job!  Paper gives you all sorts of abilities &#8220;for free&#8221; but every new function on a computer (such as the ability to &#8220;write in the margins&#8221;) must be explicitly designed.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting article about the importance of being able to &#8220;write in the margins&#8221; and how that functionality has been neglected in computer systems in favor of the designer trying (in vain) to figure it all out ahead of time. I love this quote: The fuzzy intersection of official and unofficial data &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/writing-in-the-electronic-margins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing in the electronic margins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}