[Air-l] Why Am I Only Communicating with Text?

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Charles:

The You Tube piece helps to make my point. We saw everything that we
needed to see. 

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Balch
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Subject: Re: [Air-l] Why Am I Only Communicating with Text?

Steve ponders: "all of us on this list are using "printed words," and
only printed words, to do our communicating. Is that because we are
academics and "printed words" are the status symbol of the academy? Or
is there some other reason?"

Charlie replies: Oddly, given that this a discussion hosted by AOIR, I
*only* use words because that is all this list allows. I can play a bit
with text but ASCII is limited. 

Content constrained
Loss through a lens of just text
No picture, no sound

Maybe all we need is text for these kind of discussions but here's an
interesting link on art with video/audio content that I ran across this
morning that I don't think could be replicated with just text.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs 



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Grin copied from http://www.asciiworld.com/smiley.html



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