[ba-ohs-talk] Re: Great? idea for improving this list (was Re: [ba-ohs-talk]Freezope learning environments)
cdent@burningchrome.com wrote: (01)
> Please note that the project that Kathryn La Barre and I are
> working on was started by Kathryn and really comes out of her
> brain. I joined in as a technical resource but then found it
> so interesting I wanted to be more involved. In case it wandered
> into obscurity I'm referring to this:
>
> http://www.bootstrap.org/lists/ba-ohs-talk/0204/msg00123.html (02)
Good to know! I missed that. (03)
> <SNIP>
> (I imagine a document composer that allows you to compare your
> text, prior to delivery, with a large net-wide classification
> system, nominating keywords and other identifiers that you could
> accept or reject. A system that used vector space style models
> would preserve some degree of privacy (depending on how it was
> done) because the text itself would not be transmitted to the
> service.) (04)
Yeah! (05)
> It is intersting to note the Usenet news messages have had a
> "Keywords:" header for a _long_ time. I don't really them
> actually being used for much, though. (06)
Wrong granularity, but clearly anticipating an important need. (07)
<aside>
It's interesting that in the 80's I had a VC look me straight in the
eye because I used a word like "granularity" that had no
commonly accepted meaning, so no one knew what I was talking
about. These days, I see it everywhere!
</aside> (08)