N’en déplaise aux ronchons, le SMS ne contribuerait pas à la dégradation de la langue comme l’indiquent les sources (anglophones) compilées par François Guité.
Il avait déjà abordé le sujet il y a 2 ans :
” Les difficultés associées à la langue, à mon avis, sont moins le résultat des méthodes pédagogiques ou des nouvelles technologies de la communication qu’un phénomène culturel et social. La qualité de la langue n’étant plus tant valorisée, quoi qu’on en dise, la motivation à l’apprendre s’en trouve d’autant amoindrie.”
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Alternative catchy title : Open Mobile Web is what happens “off the deck” and outside the “walled garden”… aka “in the wild”.
That’s my thinking at least… Here’s an excerpt from a recent email exchange on one of my projects (anonymized to protect the innocents, namely myself) :
WAP might be the way to go rather than SMS at this point as proof from XYZ telco partnership with UVW Co…
Let’s just agree on semantics here for a moment…
if by WAP you mean “a mobile version of a web page, using xhtml + css and a user experience taking in account the limited screen size and interaction modes available on a cell phone browser”… then yes, call it WAP and let’s do that.
If by WAP you mean something...
After the success of Twitter (twitter is the new flickr) and the instant realisation to several thousands of alpha-geeks and creative webheads at SXSW that SMS could be micro-blogging as well as a social command line (and I hereby claim this meme). SMS did not need twitter to catch the heart of the geekerati, but it became a clear demonstration that mobile was a major platform for social app (it’s all about the flow - thanks Stowe!).
Seventh mass media or innovation minefield? As often, the truth lies somewhere in between. I must say that the Kakiloc demo at the last democamp in Montreal opened my eyes on the command line aspect of it all. Their “dot-k-dot” commands instantly invoked for me the terminal culture, the browser location bar as the web command line and...