What I Do
When friends and family ask me what I do, I want to point them at this movie. The whole thing, yes, but especially from about 2:47 on. And O yes that last bit.
(Via Lanette via, of course and as ever, Jill Walker, who started so many of us.)
February 9th, 2007 at 11:12 am
What is so amazing to me is not how eloquent the video is (it absolutely is), but how a few short years ago, it was impossible to tell this entire story at all. When I was in San Francisco in 2001 or so, I had to pay a few thousand to learn rudimentary XML. Once I “got” the conceptual splits between structure, content, and formatting, I was a pretty valuable cat. Now, this guy weaves it into a story as a way of introducing how he did ethnography in Oceania. It’s a footnote. History is moving quickly.
February 10th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
That was great, Mike! I’ve put it in my favorites and emailed it to all of my friends. Or at least to one friend who will probably pass it on.