{"id":3205,"date":"2020-08-31T01:27:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2020-08-15T06:39:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T11:39:57","slug":"name-dropping-and-other-follies-of-miscommunicating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2020\/08\/name-dropping-and-other-follies-of-miscommunicating\/","title":{"rendered":"Name Dropping and Other Follies of (Mis)Communicating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Please talk concepts, name product names.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There used to be comedy routines back in the 1970s (yes, I am that old) that made fun of daytime soap operas. (For you younger folks, don&#8217;t worry, you didn&#8217;t miss anything as almost everything on television these days is a soap opera.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyways, the comedians would read the TV Guide (another artifact of the prior millennium) descriptions of the shows, &#8220;Sally confronts Dave about his past with Sarah while Bill and Don finally sign their contract even though Bill knows he will double cross Don and agree with Sam.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audiences laughed hysterically (we laughed at odd things back in the 1970s). Who in the world were these characters who only had a given name and no family name? How could anyone keep these one-name-only characters straight?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silly, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, today we do the same in technology (mis)communication. I read a post today about Google combining Duo and Messages into Meet. I guess this is significant, but seems to be the 2020 version of &#8220;Bill will double cross Don and agree with Sam.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Explain the concepts. Put the product names in parentheses. Think before speaking (communicating). Please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Please talk concepts, name product names. There used to be comedy routines back in the 1970s (yes, I am that old) that made fun of daytime soap operas. (For you younger folks, don&#8217;t worry, you didn&#8217;t miss anything as almost everything on television these days is a soap opera.) Anyways, the comedians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,293],"tags":[154,294],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-concepts","tag-communication","tag-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}