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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
âContext,â Richard Neville once informed me over the phone, âis everything.â It was back in 1994, before I even knew how email worked, let alone had an address. And I hadnât googled him â had no idea how the internet worked â rather Iâd found his number in the phone book and had been chasing him by phone and fax for an interview. âIf I hadnât returned your call, would you have continued to destroy rain forests to get in touch with me?â heâd asked when he finally phoned me back. Iâve no idea at which point during the ensuing interview heâd pointed out the necessity of context, to render a thing relevant.
But you know what? Apart from the quote itself â âcontext is everythingâ â Richard Neville has nothing to do with this blog post.Context and relevancy does, however.
Note the lovely image above. I saw the top of a page of the Daily Telegraph out the corner of my eye in the local café as I bought a coffee to take back to the office. And I couldnât work out what the picture had to do with the headline.
Turns out to be nothing.
Itâs just that, thatâs exactly what Obama appears to be whispering into the womanâs ear: sweet nothings. Is she a prime examples of one of the things heâs getting âdoneâ?
In the digital age, it seems weâve forgotten how to construct a page of information so that it makes logical sense. Proximity between two elements suggests a relationship where there is none. Particularly when they are positioned next to each other â since we still read left-to-right, even if virtually every portable source of information requires that we scroll down.
Irrespective, it made me laugh.
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