Progam with QDA Qualitative Data Analysis features? Coding/tagging blocks of text?

Posted by Fredy
Aug 12, 2012 at 01:35 PM

Sorry for multiplying bits: It’s not the music videos, many songs come without any video there. And it’s not cloud synching beforehand, before leaving home. It’s the “instant availability on the road”, i.e. synching on the spot, when you’re in need (or just in “need”) of the data in question. It must be something like “getting something from out there at this very moment” - to put it bluntly, even data identical to one that is on the harddisk of your device already. “Getting something from the television” must be something like “getting heroin from your dealer” - I’m sure it triggers some special functions in your brain that ain’t triggered but the material you’ve already got there.

And now for forging the bridge to offerings like The Brain. Could it be that when musing on your own Mind Maps (Tony Buzan’s rights reserved), your own items there trigger something that your own lists don’t trigger, because of the blank space… or because of the (more or less aleatoric?) spatial representation (it doesn’t work with alphabetically (= systematic-wise cut-up, let alone systematic) lists, so the common “space” notion (in mind maps, in cloud services) seems to be important - tv? by cable, though? But what’s at the other end of the cable? CHAOS, from your pov. I wanna say, things you own have a dedicated place, even if you don’t remember that specific place at a given moment. Thus, they’re “dead” in a way. Things in the cloud - or within the tv set - don’t have a place known to you / inscribed in your mental representation of “what’s where”.

So there see to be two factors at least, concurring (and with some others probably): The instant delivery (instead of “it’s all there already”), and the spatial whereabouts (= you don’t “know”, but you “discover on delivery” or something). (And then, mind maps are multiple times more successful than The Brain - but in mind maps, if you don’t touch a file, it’s spatial representation will not be changed from last time, whilst in The Brain, it’s all flurring arround all the time - so people seem to prefer SOME stability beyond that “don’t know where it exactly is” curtain…)

And so on… Lot’s of possible factors to muse on, beyond the “share” factor, which is not to be left behind, though. Watching TV, listening to youtube means, (at least in theory, for youtube,) others could listen / watch the same material as you do (but with youtube, probably at a differed time rate (you’re at 5’‘23, others might be at 2’‘45) - tv only is synchronized time-wise. So there seems a be some “sharing” factor even if it’s not about REAL sharing of your own data on the services you hope they will NOT share it against your will… Don’t know, but there is the phenomenon that millions of people prefer the net even when they don’t really need it, myself included when thinking. So there is some adequacy in trying to think about what’s going on with all that “sharing” business especially so when it’s NOT about real sharing.

(Unable to edit: It’s all too new for me.)