<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Alexandro Colorado <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jza@openoffice.org">jza@openoffice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Christoph Derndorfer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com" target="_blank">christoph.derndorfer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I just saw this article over on O'Reilly Radar and a lot of what the author says also applies to the Journal: "Why files need to die: Files are an anachronism in the digital age. It's time for something better." (<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/why-files-need-to-die.html" target="_blank">http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/why-files-need-to-die.html</a>).</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>So while it's still early days I definitely feel that the Journal is generally moving into the right direction, especially with all the new features and whatnot discussed during the eduJAM! summit:-)</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I am not purely convinced on eliminating the files paradigm, maybe the folders would be a different conversation. But files are well... pretty obiquos. Since you seem very interesting in having this paradigm of a journal. I wonder if you got inspired out of Zeitgeist project in gnome (I think they rename it now to something more normal like gnome-journal or something).</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure that there's necessarily a direct connection between Sugar's Journal and Gnome's Zeitgeist but if there were then I'd probably argue that it went from Sugar to Gnome rather than the other way 'round;-)</div>
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<div>I would like to hear your validation of the journal and why is it a good idea, and how deep will this change goes beyond the UI and apps to a commandline environment.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>See the aforementioned article, it really contains most of the reasons why I personally think that something like the Journal is a good idea. It seems to be that a stream-like interface combined with a database based backend is a good combination for today's computing context.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On an even a broader scale back in Uruguay in early May Bert Freudenberg pointed out that mobile operating systems such as Android and iOS and now increasingly even desktop operating systems (e.g. OS X Lion) are moving into a direction where you're not really interacting with files anymore.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Christoph</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> Cheers,</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im"><div>Christoph</div><br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Christoph Derndorfer<br>co-editor, olpcnews<br>url: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com" target="_blank">www.olpcnews.com</a><br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:christoph@olpcnews.com" target="_blank">christoph@olpcnews.com</a><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><font color="#888888"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><b>Alexandro Colorado</b><br><b><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 153)">Open</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Office.org</span></b> Espaņol<br>
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