InformationChemistry

JonUdell using the analogy :

• http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/the-laws-of-information-chemis.html?utmsource=feedburner&utmmedium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+oreilly/radar/atom+(O'Reilly+Radar))

Unless you're on an IT track, though, you'll likely graduate from college without ever learning this corollary: The right information structures open doors, the wrong ones won't.

My project has shown me that many otherwise well-educated professionals have no intuitive sense of the differences between these various representations of a calendar:

As a PDF file

As an HTML page

As an RSS feed

As an iCalendar feed

See also :

• BangTheRocksTogether (another chemical analogy)

• OnCalendars

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