The other day, in a Cre8asite Forums thread, I wrote the following as a tip for blogging: DON’T: Attack other bloggers. Although the flame war is an age old online communication favorite, the person who starts it always loses. Just don’t do it! Criticizing an article with a reasoned argument is GREAT – that’s dialogue. Attacking somebody personally is a big no-no. And yet, I recently found myself on the defense because I did attack two people in a blog […]
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Thanks to Accessites!
Accessites.org is a site with a mission. Founded by accessible web designer Mike Cherim, the site honors the best of accessible web design. Accessites accepts submissions of sites for review and meticulously separates the best sites for awards. Since the founding of the site in late December of 2005, 179 sites have been submitted and 35 have received awards – with a backlog of only 16 pending sites. The way Accessites operates is through a panel of accessible developers who […]
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When last I posted, I mentioned that I’d be mentioning something about my vacation in Europe. Well, that time has come! I’ve posted a small photo gallery of selected photos from the trip for your enjoyment, accompanied by some brief commentary which may give you a small sense for where we went. As to the travels themselves, all I can say is that they were wonderful and exhausting. Hopefully, the pictures will speak for me. There’s nothing like four weeks […]
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On July 5th, I’m going to be leaving on a combined traveling vacation and relocation trip. With the massive preparations required to manage a three week vacation along with moving overseas, I have simply run out of time for blogging: work and planning must come first! The vacation is going to be very exciting – traveling from Vienna to the Czech Republic, then spending some time in the Austrian Alps, then off to the Italian Alps, Venice, and then off […]
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I’ve made a fuller post at my other blog, but the gist of it is that I’m going on vacation starting next Wednesday – and I’m also moving. So, although I’d hoped to be able to keep up with posting right until the last minute, I’ve simply run out of available time in the day! So, this blog will be, essentially, on hiatus until approximately the beginning of August. There’s some possibility of an occasional post, but it’s very unlikely. […]
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