i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

During L13, as part of our review, we talked more about separating the content from the presentation. I posed the question that if you consider the statement that “Meaning is Use” (in terms of use equating to the presentation), does that mean that content alone is meaningless? Well, this concept has been percolating in my brain over the last few days and I think I’ve concluded that the answer to that question is: Yes.

Here are some examples in support of my assertion that content is meaningless:

Example #1 – Raw Data