About Me
I have worked within two main fields for most of my adult life – social advocacy and web content. Because of this, my skills and job history have naturally evolved over the last few years to focus on the perfect intersection of those two passions: web accessibility. There is no greater reward for excellence in technical design than if that design acts as a doorway where there was once a wall. I am deeply committed to providing a universally accessible experience for all users wherever I can have the most impact.
The posts on this site are my personal opinions, and they in no way represent the company that I work for or the views of those who I work with in the long road ahead. With that said, I always have something to say.
Full disclosure: I struggle with maintaining a web log, and I usually start one born out of a specific thought burning a hole into my sleep patterns only to abandon it after a dozen or so posts. Twitter is much closer to real time chat, and therefore something I find more engaging. I’m a virtual world citizen, spoiled by the immersive and immediate environment. However, as is customary with all of my attempts to blog, I must republish the conversation I had years ago with a good friend. I have matured since then, and I realize now that the problem is with me, not with the medium. I’ll also humbly suggest that blogs have matured as a whole since 2006 when this conversation was captured. There’s a hell of a lot more good stuff to read online these days. Granted, there’s still a reasonable foundation for my claims below, but I can see how some discussions need to take place in that middle ground between white paper and instant message. For however long I can sit still enough to have the conversation, I welcome participants, if you can pardon the host’s idiosyncrasies.
[10:48] Nethermind: so, blogging
[10:48] Nethermind: here’s my issue with it
[10:48] CrowValen: Please tell
[10:48] Nethermind: which is why I won’t and you can blog about it
[10:49] Nethermind: blogging is neither spontaneous nor timeless
[10:49] Nethermind: it’s this dead space in between where words are no longer alive but they haven’t been edited and polished enough to display well
[10:49] Nethermind: give me this (realtime chat) or give me letters
[10:50] Nethermind: the in between space is just that…. in between and not any real destination
[10:50] Nethermind: and academics do it all the time, which I have more issues with
[10:50] CrowValen: why
[10:50] Nethermind: if their ideas are really good, they’re saving them for publication
[10:50] Nethermind: so, then it’s just orthographic pixelated masturbation
[10:50] Nethermind: fluffing one’s own mental pedigree
[10:50] Nethermind: by and large, I am bored with blogs
