Re: Dvorak Tagging and Naming

Howdy, folks.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:13:34 -0500 Marcus Brooks 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.

John C. Dvorak is a regular on TWiT (http://twit.tv/).  Ironically,
he's rumored to be steadfastly against the Dvorak simplified keyboard.

He gets no spam.

> Dvorak Keyboard is misleading (though common). Dvorak Typing is OK.  
> Try Dvorak Layout.

I'd propose dvoraklayout, but dvoraktyping works as well.

-ArielMT


> 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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