[MD] Gawain

Wed Jan 24 21:05:42 PST 2007

Yes, Do you have any knowledge or opinion about software known as "moodle",
and/or "sakai", which are open source programs comparable to commercial
software called "Blackboard" that many colleges and distance e-learning
environments are applying these days.

I did a Wiki search on these.  They are learning management systems,
collaborative software, perhaps suitable to develop private or public
knowledge bases.  Can the PHP code from these tools, be embedded in blog
software (e.g. Wordpress) or would this be a kind of apples and orange
problem?

Technorati now says their are 63 millions blogs out there. about 30 million
of these are active (updated within the past 3 months). As a read-only
medium the www is great, but the writable web, fast developing in the last 5
years, is really going to be a show stopper. I am considering experimenting
with this medium myself by establishing my own small community collaborative
blog...With maybe six west coast members, diverse subject matter.

You once said you had some IT background.
Ian says:
Didn't you state once you were sometimes responsible for datamodeling?
Yes?  No?  All of the above???

Perhaps, your background still won't be right to address this question.
What, if any opinion, do you have about this subject? Even if you have no
opinion... here is another tip? http://del.icio.us/tag/RSS has really cool
stuff. you might enjoy. Thanks in advance.

I changed the subject because I'm real tired of parables and Pirsig's
"value". A temporary condition. I believe. Do I owe you an apology, or are
you offended or what? Don't answer that.  I Apologize anyway...
Robbie

On 1/24/07, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> Robbie,
>
> Is there something you'd like to say to me directly?
>
> m
>
>
>
> At 08:50 PM 1/23/2007, you wrote:
> >Unlike you Ian, Tuples and Data Modelling are not my field.  But here is
> an
> >alternative explanation:
> >
> >
> >Marsha acted very emotionally to my replies to her parable at the
> beginning
> >
> >of this thread. I'm ignorant is the field of psychology, but below is a
> >speculation:
> >
> >
> >
> >American Scientist reviews a new book that suggests an intriguing
> hypothesis
> >- that the reason that the distrust of people with a different skin
> color,
> >different values or a different ideology is so prevalent is because the
> >early development of crucial brain pathways makes it hard for people to
> >accept new and unfamiliar experiences.
> >
> >
> >
> >Wexler argues that when people are faced with information that does not
> >agree with their internal structures, they deny, discredit, reinterpret
> or
> >forget that information. When changes in the environment are great,
> >corresponding internal changes are accompanied by distress and
> dysfunction.
> >The inability to reconcile differences between strange others and
> ingrained
> >notions of "humanness" can culminate in violence. The neurobiological
> >imperative to maintain a balance between internal structures and external
> >reality fuels this struggle for control, which contributes to making the
> >contact zone a place of intractable conflict.
> >
> >
> >
> >The eternal male female struggle for control is illustrated in the
> parable…
> >according to this theory. Marsha likes males, who are carpets, which
> leaves
> >her in charge. She calls this
> >
> >deferential male attitude: the middle ground. I might be totally off
> base.
> >What do you think, IAN?
> >
> >Robbie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On 1/23/07, ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Ha, very good Marsha .... choose your moral, I do get it, honest ;-)
> > > You don't really want me to talk Tuples do you ?
> > >
> > > Data modelling is part of my day job, for the last 10 years or so. (In
> > > fact it's part of everyone's daily life but they just don't call it
> > > that - we are forever deciding what to call things and how to describe
> > > what we mean by them, and how they relate to other things.) So Yes.
> > >
> > > That is Yes, but ...
> > >
> > > It is that very exclusion of the middles that means I avoid
> > > "relational modelling" like the objectivist plague it really is.
> > > (strict binary taxonomy - is or isn't - very convenient for
> > > "programmers", but too far removed from reality to be much real use.)
> > >
> > > So modelling yes; relational modelling, not if I can help it.
> > > Catwalk modelling, nice work if you can get it.
> > > Ian
> > >
> > > On 1/23/07, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > H Ian,
> > > >
> > > > At 04:49 PM 1/23/2007, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >BTW Marsha - how would you summarise the moral of the story if not:
> > > > >"In life, it is often better not to make a choice between two
> > > > >choices offered."
> > > > >Ian
> > > >
> > > > As stated in the parable:
> > > > "The moral is that it doesn't matter if your woman is pretty or
> ugly,
> > > > underneath it all, she's still a witch---and don't you forget it."
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  From Wikipedia:
> > > > "The relational model depends on the law of excluded middle under
> > > > which anything that is not true is false and anything that is not
> > > > false is true; it also requires every tuple in a relation body to
> > > > have a value for every attribute of that relation."
> > > >
> > > > Didn't you state once you were sometimes responsible for data
> > > > modeling?  Yes?  No?  All of the above???
> > > >
> > > > m
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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