STOP - Re: AccessiBlog updated

Enough.  This is not a constructive thread.
No more replies.
No more cross-posting to IG.

--wendy

At 07:29 PM 9/24/01 , Anne Pemberton wrote:
>Ah, Kynn and Chaas, the Peacemakers! And Chas made some interesting 
>points. I will be curious to know when Lisa's and Jonathan's stuff will be 
>added.
>
>Kynn, teachers are not usually overly fond of class clowns. They waste a 
>lot of class time, and often keep a teacher from meeting everyone's needs. 
>And, to be perfectly honest, what I enjoy most about teaching elementary 
>children (other than their openness to all learning) is that they 
>generally are still free of 'tudes .... 'Tudes are tolerable, but they 
>waste a lot of time.
>
> From Joe's use of Blog to describe both his list of resources and his 
> in-process book, I suspect Blog is an index to his work with a few other 
> pieces thrown in to round out what he hasn't written yet ...  Joe?
>
>I do think Joe understood that when I said his site wasn't useful, I meant 
>it wasn't useful to me because it wasn't a source of information I'd be 
>referring folks to.
>
>         Oh, Kynn, did you look at that picture of Joe on his page? He's a 
> bottle blonde for sure! <grin>
>
>                                         Anne
>
>
>
>At 08:42 AM 9/24/01 -0700, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
>
>>See, the whole problem here is that you took Joe Clark's tongue-in-
>>cheek boasting seriously.  If you take Joe a lot less seriously --
>>think of him as the class clown out to get attention, who still
>>manages to produce useful stuff -- then you don't have these problems.
>>
>>You read claims like "I know the most in the world about accessibility"
>>or "nobody else is as great as me" or "this is the most complete
>>site" or "they all got it wrong, I'm the only one who knows the
>>score" as just part of the classic Joe Clark 'tude.  Just shrug and
>>say "oh that wacky Joe, let's go see what he's really got for us"
>>and ignore the rest of it.
>>
>>Because Joe really _does_ produce some great and useful stuff, and
>>it's even more useful if you learn to employ appropriate mental
>>filters.
>>
>>(Note:  You can probably do this with many other people, and thereby
>>increase their usefulness also.  Me too, for example!  Although I am
>>too close to myself to be able to tell you what's the right filter.)
>>
>>--Kynn
>>
>>--
>>Kynn Bartlett <kynn@reef.com>
>>Technical Developer Liaison
>>Reef North America
>>Accessibility - W3C - Integrator Network
>>________________________________________
>>BUSINESS IS DYNAMIC. TAKE CONTROL.
>>________________________________________
>>http://www.reef.com
>
>Anne Pemberton
>apembert@erols.com
>
>http://www.erols.com/stevepem
>http://www.geocities.com/apembert45

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wendy a chisholm
world wide web consortium
web accessibility initiative
seattle, wa usa
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