Communication

8. An Audience Never to be Born, Script by Bob Blakley

Act Eight, Notes from WAAA2007

Use Case

We want to communicate information to a large and varied audience, with the conflicting goals of having that information be simple, clear, and to the point, plus being complete, comprehensive, and in-context, with commentary.

A clear, simple communication means sending only an excerpt of the original data. The context can come from the link back to a larger view where the recipient can delve as deeply as they desire.

A variant of our goal is that we want to provide valuable data to third-party users who have the same goals named above, plus the ability to format the data so that it looks natural inside of their communication.

“Communications” may be paper mail, e-mail, web pages, or any other presentation of data.

Capabilities

(what actions the user of the system will perform)

Applications

(the programmatic elements needed to fulfill the capabilities)