Comments on: The Miscellany: a nominalist’s essence of the web http://armchairmedia.com/2007/11/12/miscellany-nominalists-essence-of-web/ Everything is Interactive Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: joho http://armchairmedia.com/2007/11/12/miscellany-nominalists-essence-of-web/comment-page-1/#comment-411 joho Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:53:00 +0000 http://armchairmedia.com/2007/11/12/the-miscellany-a-nominalists-essence-of-the-web/#comment-411 Since I agree with just about everything you say (with the "just about" intended merely to give me some wiggle room if necessary), it must be that I read my book differently than you do :)<br/><br/>I certainly agree that we need local forms of organization, and designers need to make good decisions, even while enabling users to sort and order in the particular ways they want to. And -- while I open and close asking why the miscellaneous never stays that way -- I apparently pushed so hard on what I thought would be novel to my readers (the multifariousness of order), I obscured the very important points you make so clearly. <br/><br/>So, yes. And thank you. Since I agree with just about everything you say (with the “just about” intended merely to give me some wiggle room if necessary), it must be that I read my book differently than you do :)

I certainly agree that we need local forms of organization, and designers need to make good decisions, even while enabling users to sort and order in the particular ways they want to. And — while I open and close asking why the miscellaneous never stays that way — I apparently pushed so hard on what I thought would be novel to my readers (the multifariousness of order), I obscured the very important points you make so clearly.

So, yes. And thank you.

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