{"id":2263,"date":"2019-01-25T23:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2019-01-25T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:22:27","slug":"no-school-like-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/no-school-like-old-school\/","title":{"rendered":"No school like old school&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dec_pdp-6.lg_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2264\" src=\"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dec_pdp-6.lg_-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"The DEC PDP 6 computer from 1964\" width=\"249\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dec_pdp-6.lg_-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dec_pdp-6.lg_.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a>Next month I am joining a group online that is going to read and annotate Engelbart&#8217;s\u00a0Doug Engelbart\u2019s 1962 research report and manifesto,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/framework.thoughtvectors.net\/\">Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework<\/a>. I first read about this in Gardner Cambell&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=2861\">blog posting on the project<\/a>. I am glad we are doing this. Innovation and advances are a beautiful thing but sometimes we throw the baby out with the bath along with some really cool font designs. I first twigged to that idea sometime around 2003 when I had attended one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/\">Edward Tufte&#8217;s<\/a> seminars while working for Harcourt eLearning.\u00a0 At that seminar he talked a little about Katzoff&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/courses\/media-arts-and-sciences\/mas-111-introduction-to-doing-research-in-media-arts-and-sciences-spring-2011\/readings\/MITMAS_111S11_read_ses5.pdf\">Clarity in Technical Report Writing<\/a>&#8221; and I don&#8217;t think I have found a better example of clear writing and how it works any where else. There is no great deep meaning to this posting other than a note to myself to remember to also look at where we have been when we think we know where we are going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next month I am joining a group online that is going to read and annotate Engelbart&#8217;s\u00a0Doug Engelbart\u2019s 1962 research report and manifesto,\u00a0Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. I first read about this in Gardner Cambell&#8217;s blog posting on the project. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/no-school-like-old-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[1373,1370,1372,1371,1374,1369,1216],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-clarity","tag-gardnercampbell","tag-katzoff","tag-nasa","tag-technicalwriting","tag-tufte","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}