[Tfug] More "pie in the sky"... :-/

[Bexley Hall]

Hi, Joshua,

--- On Wed, 9/17/08, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Have a look at this Xerox project:
> http://www2.parc.com/csl/projects/placeless/
> 
>  also see work of David Gelernter:
> http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html
> 
>  -jmz

Yes, these both deal with the sort of issue I'm trying to address.
I already handle many of the "property" issues mentioned in the
PARC project.  This is a win as many of them can be done *for*
the user without his concious effort (read: he will typically
not be disciplined enough to ensure these things are done
otherwise!).

But, my question is intended to be more abstract -- addressing
the issues that these projects hint at but fail to quantify
(because they are so *hard* to put a handle on!).

I.e., how do people organize things in their minds/locaalities?
I've not been able to come up with any orderly set of criteria
that *I* use -- let alone trying to generalize to how *others*
might impose order on their worlds.  :<  It, perhaps, is not
something that lends itself to a simple metaphor... ?  So, the
lesson learned is just to provide the infrastructure and *hope*
the user figures out how best to apply it to his situation??

<frown>

--don