Comments on: Text in decline?

By: Lacer

Lacer — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:17:59 +0000

have you ever watched an 18 year old text while driving? it is the most bizarre thing. it has been banned in utah and it goes to show that communicating with words needs to be categorized differently. not all text is the same, just because it’s in english doesn’t mean that it communicates the same way every time. most of the texting that comes out of younger people these days is pure garbage. it’s a wonder that they even want to be educated at all.

By: Gene Golovchinsky

Gene Golovchinsky — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:54:19 +0000

I agree with Chris Dent that a key strength of text is the ease with which it can be processed, indexed, and retrieved while preserving some approximation of meaning

By: FXPAL Blog » Blog Archive » The reports of the death of text are greatly exaggerated

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:47:11 +0000

[...] his reaction to this article, Andrew Dillon pointed out that rather than being replaced by video and audio, text would supplemented by them. His argument [...]

By: Chris Dent

Chris Dent — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:05:42 +0000

While keyboards and the like may be slow for input into devices, text is still (at least for me) killing audio and video as for getting info into _me_.

By: Ralph Gabbard

Ralph Gabbard — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:44:12 +0000

In my never ending quest to be information literate, I had to look up Paul Weller. So now I guess I am.