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Quinn DuPont studies textual communication in cross-over disciplines such as typography, history, power, rhetoric, security, and technology. He has recently been studying information sabotage and developing a thesis about the social development of meaning. Quinn is currently an information architect in Toronto, Canada.

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Monday
Apr202009

A sense of information

DateMonday, April 20, 2009 at 10:34PM

From The Future of the Book (109),

The word “information,” in this theory, is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In particular, information must not be confused with meaning. In fact, two messages, one of which is heavily loaded with meaning and the other of which is pure nonsense, can be exactly equivalent, from the present viewpoint, as regards information (Weaver 1964: 4)

I’ll have more to say about this matter later, time permitting.

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