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Re: Topics of keen interest to me ... how about you?

• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
• To: Bill Kearney <wkearney@gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:00:21 -0400

On 8/11/13 3:48 PM, Bill Kearney wrote:
> Ah, bullshit.  It's still about wrangling users and their data.  All
> this talk about "data driven" comes across like excuses to get out from
> under UI responsibilities.    Nobody like the dirty work of massaging
> the first/last mile (yard?) of effort that faces the users.  But failure
> to do so makes the rest pretty much pointless.

Funny.  That "dirty work" was the subject of a lot of talks at Balisage, 
and the subject of a whole symposium the day before:

<http://balisage.net/XML-Interfaces/index.html>

I pointed out a lot of layers of failure and opportunity in my talk, but 
there were many other more concrete conversations about user 
interactions with marked-up data, from editors to XForms and more.

You may be trying hard to be disagreeable, but you're actually repeating 
the point Roger made...

Maybe come to the show sometime?  I know you can deliver potshots in person.

Thanks,
-- 
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

• References:
  • Topics of keen interest to me ... how about you?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Topics of keen interest to me ... how about you?
    • From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney@gmail.com>