{"id":139,"date":"2008-06-01T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/06\/01\/on_the_nature_of_networking_addendum\/"},"modified":"2008-06-01T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T00:47:11","slug":"on_the_nature_of_networking_addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/06\/01\/on_the_nature_of_networking_addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Nature of Networking, addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Lablit <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.lablit.com\">fora<\/a> there is a discussion on the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.lablit.com\/viewtopic.php?f=9&#038;t=2777\">language of creativity<\/a>.  The conversation, um, <em>evolved<\/em> somewhat and got to talking about online vs down the pub conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\nSomeone said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>I just feel that an online discussion is hard work compared to the real thing<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nand this was followed a bit later by<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>I was actually wondering if anyone makes use of tools like IRC for scientific discussions, given that it&#8217;s a much more conversational way of communicating than writing in a forum or commenting on a post. It&#8217;s also more forgiving, in that &#8216;pub conversation&#8217; way.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhich reminds me of a comment I <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nature.com\/blogs\/user\/rpg\/2008\/05\/25\/on-the-nature-of-networking#comment-8961\">made<\/a> about &#8216;chat&#8217;, rather than forum or weblog posts.  And I thought \u2014 although iChat is bloody good (multi-person video conferencing!  Integration with Keynote!), and Gmail chat not bad, \u2014 both require separate accounts (AOL\/.Mac or Gmail).  The advanced features of iChat\/AIM (for Linux\/Windows) require a separate client.  Either are preferable to the somewhat arcane nature of IRC, which I dabbled with once in the &#8217;90s but never really warmed to.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat would be really nice, at least for the <em>NN<\/em> crowd, would be a web client-based chat room.  This kind of technology exists already, so it should be relatively straightforward to implement (_hint, hint_).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Lablit fora there is a discussion on the language of creativity. The conversation, um, evolved somewhat and got to talking about online vs down the pub conversation. Someone said I just feel that an online discussion is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/06\/01\/on_the_nature_of_networking_addendum\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}