Information Pollution

[Naomi]

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LOL! Well that's why he's called "SilentJohn"

I really think SJ must be some sort of robotic prototype. My computers always answer that way too. I also notice hackers like to simplify things like that, perhaps from the programming languages they learn? A friend of mine also tries to talk like this. He feels that simplifying a paragraph into a sentence gets to the core of an issue, and is more powerful. This is also a very native american way of speaking. If you go to a native american gathering place, someone's house or anything, everyone is very comfortable with silence and one is not expected to say anything, which is very relaxing, but for those not used to the use of silence as a gift...this can be quite unnerving. You get a lot of culture clash there.

Interesting website on a topic I've been fascinated with the past week or so:

"Saying less often communicates more. Our lives are littered with extraneous details that smother salient information"

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030811.html (http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030811.html)

V/S/S/V hasn't popped up for a while but his ideas just blew me away. I really am very excited about all of the possibilities that simplification can do for communication. I've tried to apply it somewhat to my own writing, but I'm afraid I havn't mastered it yet, as you can tell from this post.

I have read so many books I just find writing so easy and it's so difficult not to throw in overly complicated prose.

Now when it comes to the poetic spirit, that is easy to see as absolutely necessary and beautiful. Too often, however, excess words are not poetic or well thought out.
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[fr.novumorganum]

I dunno--I usually find hackers and programmers to have very analytic minds--when they communicate, much like unified-field theorists, the communication value of the utterance is what matters, clarity is the key choice---which could lead to long or short transmissions.

Now, myspace culture is another thing...minimal information in minimal expression---almost the opposite of poetry.

[Ci Celli Ddu]

Yeah when it comes to creativity I much prefer Blogger.com to Myspace. Blogger allows the user full and immediate access to its template so you can hack it and create whatever look and functions you want. It's much more fun playing around with java script and html there than having to create or generate codes to make minimal changes on myspace.

[Kuroyagi]

yes I think so too. online I may not seem an overly "silent" person but I really appreciate silence. around most Europeans (friends etc.) its considered to be uncomfortable or "uneasy" to be silent too long while sitting next to each other but in Asia this is more accepted (maybe like with those native americans): its so realxing if one just can sit around and be silent and yet know that one isnt expected to talk anything at all; but basically I can enjoy both.