Re: Dvorak Tagging and Naming

I second dvorakLayout - that seems to make sense.

On 3/15/07, Marcus Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   You're forgetting John C. Dvorak, who used to write the back page
> column in InfoWorld. I don't know what he's doing nowadays. Something
> computer mavenesque, no doubt.
>
> Dvorak Keyboard is misleading (though common). Dvorak Typing is OK.
> Try Dvorak Layout.
>
> Cheers,
> Marcus
> Former member (by accident), Dvorak Delphi Group.
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2007, at 2:36 PM, nkmcalli 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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