Ch. 8
Chapter 8 is about meaning, and what is explicit and implicit information. Weinberger talks about how confusing metadata can be, and why what is not included in a description is just as important as what is included. A good example of this is his Friendster, and his justifications for what information he adds. Finally the chapter discusses the digital, such as how Google maps revolutionized the meaning of maps – they became based on user needs rather than a map for everyone.
This matters to me as a DTC major because it is important for me to not only consider the information that I put in my work, but also the information I am leaving out. Both add to the meaning of the final product.
Ch. 9
Chapter 9’s main point is organization. On the web today, organization is so different from the physical. I find it interesting how we subconsciously organize on the internet, through things like tagging. Through the web, organization is drastically changing to messiness – which ironically can become more organized than the physical.
This is important as a DTC major because the primary way I will be organizing my work will be digital. Unless I am (maybe) a photographer or something, most of my work will be organized onto a computer. However even as say, a photographer, sites like Flickr will utilize this new form of ‘organized messiness’ through tagging. I have to be aware of digital organization in order to keep my work relevant.
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I agree that in DTC we will most likely be working with things organized digitally and that a lot goes into keeping work relevant in fields like DTC that are constantly changing with the times. I think that it's important to consider the best way to organize information at the time, and what is going to be the best way for clients or just people in general to see your work whether they are as technically savvy as the person creating it or not.
ReplyDeleteThe information that you are leaving out, would that not be considered implicit and not possible within the digital world? To me the chapter was about how the implicit is now nonexistence, and that everything created on the internet is explicit. So maybe figuring how to make the explicit seem implicit, fooling people so they think they are interacting in real time, when there is no real implicit communication going on, just explicit.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy that you mentioned relevance, and that more than anything we need to be on top of this technology or any new website or potential website in order to present our work as "relevant" and fresh to potential customers/employers.
Good call John. How do we make the explicit seem implicit (you don't have to answer that, but worth pondering). Ok post, Megan, but work on really getting to the heart of argument a bit more.
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