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This page is a vestige of a previous site design. Heaven
only knows where the navigation links will take you.
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Why ?
- experiment with info architecture, page design, streaming,
learning models, etc.
- creative outlet
- try out web-based working - "the net is my hard drive"
- share interesting and useful thoughts
- display my digital art
- let others experience the Jay/Jayhoo! brand
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New Site Map
The site is far from intuitive because it reflects my personal
interests -- learning, design, marketing, the web, the concept
of time, performance improvement, photography, e-business,
the future, the portal phenomena, humor, people, books, and
art. Click over to the new graphical site map if disorder
upsets you.
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The Syntax of Jayhoo!
The look of printed pages in books has not changed in five
hundred years. Why are books generally constructed of unbroken
blocks of text, all in the same font? No pictures. No diagrams.
No variation. No visual clues. Progress is overdue. 
plans to:
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apply a design sensibility to
presentation here
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play with new formats & structure to increase understanding
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try out new ways of transferring content
- experiment, experiment, experiment
"Conventions"
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link to a related idea
 =
link to source of information
When I need to make it clear that I am speaking,
I'll use this font. This comes up most often when my commentary
is interspersed with quoted material.
Like the increasingly zany books of  ,
I plan to use whatever
is NECESSARY for emphasis.
In short, punchy paragraphs.
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Pages printed by Aldus
Manutius
in Venice circa 500 years ago
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Appropriate dose
In our analog past, classes were an hour long, regardless
of the importance or difficulty of their content. It was a
rigid world of one-day workshops, one-hundred page magazines,
three hundred page novels, half-hour news programs, fifty
minutes on the analyst's coach, and one hundred minute movies.
Digital media frees us to do whatever's appropriate -- the
two-minute class, the six-page novel, the four-hour news show,
the sentence fragment, the 1000-word footnote.
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Nothing is ever finished.
No apolgies. It's this era's ah-ha. Few things are ever complete.
In the early 80s, when I finished writing something on my
IBM Selectric III typewriter, it was done. Thanks to
word processing, there's little need to close out any document
save contracts and true classics. Hiking in Berkeley last
week, I came upon an IBM Selectric III typewriter, sitting
on the curb, free for the taking.
When Jayhoo! started, I used Mr. Bill to tell me and my readers
that obviously a section had more to go. (I hate the ubiquitous
Construction roadsign that crops up all over the web.) But
Mr. Bill's too cryptic. Henceforth I'm going to shade work
in progress in gray.
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The Word Processor is more powerful than the particle-beam
weapon. -- Geo. Carlin
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Cubism: Many
viewpoints
simultaneously
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Multiple viewpoints
strives to present information from multiple viewpoints, to
keep things fresh, point out connections, and practice mindfulness.
When my words intermingle with the words of
others, I'll sometimes use this font to identify them.
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Multisensory
Sound & motion add verve, interest, and better signal:noise
ratio..
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Evolution
Like the human brain, this web site is layer atop layer rather
than a from-the-ground-up new construction. Deep down in its
reptilian brain stem you may trip over a chunk of my pre-Netscape
site. Please consider inconsistencies here as a sign of humanity
rather than faux pas of design.
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Vary Form
When I write with a fountain
pen, my style is more concise than when I tap out thoughts
on a word processor. My writing changes when using different
software, e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Editpad, Dreamweaver. Since
all of these now output HTML, I plan to use them all as I
work with Jayhoo.
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does not discriminate between what Jay creates and what is
borrowed from elsewhere. Why reinvent the wheel?, I'm editor
as well as author, a guide with an attitude. Think collage.
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Internet
Time Group
