Charles: <<The You Tube piece helps to make my point. We saw everything that we needed to see. >> Your saying this makes the other point: you're saying it in words, not images. Can you really find or create an image that you might send us that would tell us "We saw everything we needed to see." Bet you can't do it. Steve E. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Balch Ph.D. Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 3:29 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; drseskow@cox.net 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 MMM88&&&, ,MMM8&&&. `'MMM88&&&, MMMMM88&&&& 'MMM88&&&, MMMMM88&&&&&& 'MMM88&&&, MMMMM88&&&&&& 'MMM88&&& MMMMM88&&&&&& 'MMM88&&& MMMMM88&&&& MMM88&&& 'MMM8&&&' MMMM888&&&& 'MM88&&& MMMM88&&&&& MM88&&& MMMM88&&&&& MM88&&& ,MMM8&&&. MM88&&& MMMMM88&&&& ,MM88&&& MMMMM88&&&&&& MMM88&&&' MMMMM88&&&&&& MMM88&&&' MMMMM88&&&&&& MMM88&&&' MMMMM88&&&& MMM88&&&' 'MMM8&&&' MMM88&&&' MMM88&&&' Grin copied from http://www.asciiworld.com/smiley.html _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/