Comments on: Talking down to non-techies http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2008/08/11/talking-down-to-non-techies/ A blog by Joan Morris DiMicco discussing social software and group collaboration Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:11:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tim Raisbeck http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2008/08/11/talking-down-to-non-techies/comment-page-1/#comment-36539 Tim Raisbeck Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:45:41 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2008/08/11/talking-down-to-non-techies/#comment-36539 It is sort of interesting to note that the issue really is context dependent. After all, there are undoubtedly many people who program in Java or develop applications in Visual Basic who might consider Assembly Language as Gobbledygook, and people who program assembly who consider these types, and their 4GL cousins not programmers at all. It is sort of interesting to note that the issue really is context dependent. After all, there are undoubtedly many people who program in Java or develop applications in Visual Basic who might consider Assembly Language as Gobbledygook, and people who program assembly who consider these types, and their 4GL cousins not programmers at all.

]]> By: Silvia Mihailescu http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2008/08/11/talking-down-to-non-techies/comment-page-1/#comment-33690 Silvia Mihailescu Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:18:39 +0000 http://www.joandimicco.com/blog/2008/08/11/talking-down-to-non-techies/#comment-33690 they sort of exaggerate. There is some technical skill required. I know I have been asked more than once on how an widget can be added....and not by non-tools-friendly people but by colleagues in my beautiful Y generation....take even that easy wiki markup language (seems easier than html to me) we have for our WIKIS...if it would be that easy then why is everybody messing a wiki when tries to edit it? so no, I don't agree with them...it's easy but not a "gobbledygook" :-) they sort of exaggerate. There is some technical skill required. I know I have been asked more than once on how an widget can be added….and not by non-tools-friendly people but by colleagues in my beautiful Y generation….take even that easy wiki markup language (seems easier than html to me) we have for our WIKIS…if it would be that easy then why is everybody messing a wiki when tries to edit it?

so no, I don’t agree with them…it’s easy but not a “gobbledygook” :-)

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