Comments on: Communication http://www.jamesgross.com/communication/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: James http://www.jamesgross.com/communication/#comment-77117 James Sat, 10 May 2008 13:29:34 +0000 http://www.jamesgross.com/?p=464#comment-77117 Some heavy stuff here Mr. Cohn. I was talking with Teresa Neilsen-Hayden (see:--> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/) and she brought up the interesting patterns she sees in communication being the moderator of BoingBoing. Crazy to think of the output you get when people have tools to communicate and meet like-minded nodes. Some heavy stuff here Mr. Cohn. I was talking with Teresa Neilsen-Hayden (see:–> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/) and she brought up the interesting patterns she sees in communication being the moderator of BoingBoing. Crazy to think of the output you get when people have tools to communicate and meet like-minded nodes.

]]> By: Michael Cohn http://www.jamesgross.com/communication/#comment-77030 Michael Cohn Fri, 09 May 2008 04:41:57 +0000 http://www.jamesgross.com/?p=464#comment-77030 An interesting corollary that can be deduced from the axioms above: Since all communication can fail, it always will. In other words, there isn't really any communication going on anywhere. What we have is a bunch of people walking around talking to themselves while looking someone else in the eye. On the other hand, if you want to get Jungian about it, we might all be tapped into the collective unconscious, in which case, we all de facto share an understanding of everything that is most important in life, and language is just a clumsy way of trying to communicate the banal details. An interesting corollary that can be deduced from the axioms above:

Since all communication can fail, it always will. In other words, there isn’t really any communication going on anywhere. What we have is a bunch of people walking around talking to themselves while looking someone else in the eye.

On the other hand, if you want to get Jungian about it, we might all be tapped into the collective unconscious, in which case, we all de facto share an understanding of everything that is most important in life, and language is just a clumsy way of trying to communicate the banal details.

]]> By: Joe Kutchera http://www.jamesgross.com/communication/#comment-75376 Joe Kutchera Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:42:56 +0000 http://www.jamesgross.com/?p=464#comment-75376 Really interesting. Good points to remember when communicating through any medium. I visited the 37 Signals blog and then clicked on the source to find that the above ideas come from Professor Osmo A. Wiio, a Finnish researcher of human communication. The site indicates that his communication theories usually applies to pedagogy, as cited in the following quote. "The important thing is to realize that even the best explanations and illustrations will be misunderstood. The student needs a way of testing his understanding against some criteria. At best, this means doing something and seeing whether it works." Regardless, still applies to the regular world. Will be in touch soon... Really interesting. Good points to remember when communicating through any medium.

I visited the 37 Signals blog and then clicked on the source to find that the above ideas come from Professor Osmo A. Wiio, a Finnish researcher of human communication. The site indicates that his communication theories usually applies to pedagogy, as cited in the following quote.

“The important thing is to realize that even the best explanations and illustrations will be misunderstood. The student needs a way of testing his understanding against some criteria. At best, this means doing something and seeing whether it works.”

Regardless, still applies to the regular world. Will be in touch soon…

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