Let's Push Things Forward
The State of my Desk
Mikel Maron's response to the public's response to his geoblog thingy resonates with me. I think most people in the insular world of webness would be wise to listen up:
What's the take home on all this? Build apps: Discussing and standards only goes so far. Apps push things forward... metadata [is] hard to agree on, without an app. the app settles the question of what the standard will be. i know this can end off very messy (re: html) but it's movement -- let's push things forward. Visualize Be it a map, colors, diagrams. in a world of firehose text, visualization is essential for quick understanding of complex relationships...
Or in a more compact form: stop being lazy. Let's push things forward.
--Posted 05/05/03 05:50PM