- From: Anne Pemberton <apembert@erols.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:29:01 -0400
- To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, Joe Clark <joeclark@joeclark.org>
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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