Re: Dvorak Tagging and Naming

He himself called it the Simplified Keyboard.

Thus, dvorakKeyboard would get my vote.

--Keith

On 3/15/07, nkmcalli <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   Okay everybody, I want to raise an issue that is probably totally off
> the wall: Tagging
>
> I use the del.icio.us (link management) and flickr.com (photo
> management) web sites. Both of these have crowd intelligence and
> social searching aspects, and both of these use tags to do all their
> work. I am in love with tags. Tags are an incredibly powerful tool to
> organize your own data, and they are an incredibly powerful tool to
> discover other people's data that you are interested in or new
> information that you didn't know about.
>
> The issue is that "Dvorak" has two main meanings out there in the
> world: a famous composer (who is really great) and a famous keyboard
> inventor (who is really great). (We can also think of the second one
> as referring to the keyboard itself, not just the inventor.) When I
> found that great picture of the Mac laptop with the keys dvoraked, I
> used flickr's feature "see all photos tagged with dvorak". Of course,
> there were many pictures of keyboards, and many pictures of musicians
> and sheet music and instruments. How can I get just the keyboard
> pictures without the musical pictures - no good way really. If someone
> only knew about the composer, what would they think of the keyboard
> pictures or links?
>
> For my delicious tags, I started out using just "dvorak", but now I
> changed to "dvorakTyping". My hope is that this will distinguish the
> keyboard from the composer in crowd intelligence and social searching.
> Do you agree that this is a good idea? Do you agree that this could
> help win converts to dvorak? Do you think this is the right tag to
> use? Do you think we should try to standardize on one term? What are
> the relative merits of these:
>
> dvorak
> dvorakTyping
> dvorakKeyboard
>
> What else?
>
> And now for the final, really off the wall question: Putting aside the
> desire to pay respects to the man who invented the keyboard, do you
> think that a different name than dvorak would help speed adoption of
> his keyboard?
>
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