[Edu-sig] Alan Kay - another one of his ideas

[Andreas Raab]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I have no argument with the rest of your message but I want to stop
> the rhetoric claiming that the WWW is somehow bad for us.

Heck, no. I didn't mean to say that the web is "bad" for you (as in "TV 
is bad for you"). Limited, yes, and that is the point. Even on my very 
first home computer in the early 80s (Comodore C16) I had a drawing 
program. On the "web-platform" it effectively took ten years and two 
dozen standards until we've been able to recreate something as 
dog-simple as that. And the nature of the discourse simply changes 
dramatically when you have capable authoring tools at your hand to 
express your thoughts - one of the best examples being the Blogosphere 
which has managed to utilize the current limited authoring abilities in 
an amazing way.

Anyway. I think this discussion is somewhat of a red herring so let's 
not get all locked up about whether the web's good or bad or whether it 
is too limited or "just right".

To get back to the Logowiki starting point, the main idea of Logowiki is 
to give people an example for what it *could* mean to include this kind 
of dynamic content in browser. The way I understand it, Crunchy Frog 
seems to be aimed very much in the same direction.

Cheers,
   - Andreas