June 14, 1997
An Apology...
This article was more than 3 months due and I think that I owe a huge apology for this delay.
The patience and tolerance that my Suite101 colleagues displayed, comes to me as a striking reminder of some of the points made in a recent Internet Special edition by Nouvelle Observateur (a French quality magazine). Amongst the many outstanding contributors there were a few who argued that the Web is not just another publishing medium, but it displays, and will keep display, irregular forms of expression as far as the content, its presentation and timing are concerned. These attributes are its strength and even publishing businesses may need to conform to these characteristics in order to crop the rewards. Nevertheless, other authors predicted that we are about to experience a more streamlined and 'professional' attitude - as the web becomes increasingly commercialized and that this attitude will of-course borrow its characteristics by practices that are applied in the rest of the media. If the later statement proves to be right, one may guess that web-authors will not write and post on-line messages full of spontaneity and content when they feel and can do so in a decent fashion. Rather, content writing will be in contracted form, just as the current journalists do (� and have to write 100, or 200 or 250 word articles in order to fill the space in a newspaper). I am optimistic that this approach will not be followed.
Yes, you are indeed reading the "hi-fi audio equipment" page at Suite 101 but it just happens that its author is going through a guilt-trip for the fact that the Science and Technology part of Suite 101 failed so miserably in the latest Web Awards. One guesses that Science together with Technology are one of these faculties that are extremely hard to teach, or to make them comprehendible to the public (who usually feels that can -and surely does - live without knowing too much about them). And then again there is this immense difficulty that Scientists and Engineers have in explaining how things work, or even selling their solutions especially when dealing with a dynamic content while addressing an unknown to them audience. After all scientists are known for their ease of use of cliches, generalizations and stereotyping.
The above conclude this article which will reside at my front page for a week or so to be followed with a detailed article on "Mistakes that amateur enthusiasts do: Patenting".
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