Re: Information -- a working definition?

Subject: Re: Information -- a working definition?
From: Milan Davidović <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Chris Despopoulos <despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:08:37 -0400

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Chris Despopoulos
<despopoulos_chriss -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> It might be useful to actually try and define information..

Have there been past efforts to do so (within technical
communication), and if so what became of them?

This article from the journal Telecommunications Policy indicates the
challenges of defining information in another (though not necessarily
completely separate) domain, and may be of interest to our own:
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/braman/www/bramanpdfs/003_defining.pdf

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