Retyping and Multityping - 1 views

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  #1 Kurt Laitner on 10 Jan 10

   

  canonical example, threaded conversations, any entry in a threaded conversation should be able to be simultaneously a comment in that thread and the head of its own thread (a topic) these two 'types' could have both different interfaces and different affordances (the comment is just text in context, with associated order time author metadata, the topic may have subscribers, rss feed etc - a party to the original threaded conversation may ONLY be interested in that comment and its sub threads, and may wish to elevate this comment to a topic for example and invite others to discuss it - see perspectives also

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">canonical example, threaded conversations, any entry in a threaded conversation should be able to be simultaneously a comment in that thread and the head of its own thread (a topic) these two 'types' could have both different interfaces and different affordances (the comment is just text in context, with associated order time author metadata, the topic may have subscribers, rss feed etc - a party to the original threaded conversation may ONLY be interested in that comment and its sub threads, and may wish to elevate this comment to a topic for example and invite others to discuss it - see perspectives also</div>

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