AG raises some interesting ?'s. My interest in all this, is as an Instructional Designer; while in Asia (4 yrs), I worked to develop some of the interactive bilingual displays for the Museum for Science & Technology in HK. (Cultural change is profoundly evident everywhere I've traveled in the past 6 yrs.) I think preparing displays & writing to a list (747 is a substantial number & more !!), is not all that different. Here are a few more ?'s to add to the list AG started: * Do you think it might come down to the issue of privacy in an 'info' age? * How much of me do I want to expose; even tho my face is not visible, my soul is? * If (when?) we keep thoughts to ourselves do we become even more isolated than our fragmented society, our almost total lack of community, & our impoverished commitment to each other has already forced? I too, think jargon is rather short lived & (in the educational field anyway), -- fads, language, and 'solutions' come & go like the tide. [log in to unmask], geographically, Berkeley, CA.