can you recommend any good sites that talk about how to ensure that your
site is 'global friendly'? or any good ones about strip mining of oceans :)
-J
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Barry
Lee Brisco
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 1999 9:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: WC:>: new member
>> And we have our Non-US voices to remind us that this is a global
medium --
>> when we fall of the wagon and get too US-centric.
>
>Gee, if I'm a non-US person, does that make me one of THEM? :-)
No Vicki, you're definitely one of us :>)
Kathy was just making the point that it's easy for people sitting in the
USA, who in general only hear from other Americans, to forget that the list
includes people from around the world.
I see this attitude all the time with my web clients. It's still hard for
many people to grasp that the web is global, and that they need to allow
for this in their site. It affects web design in all kinds of ways.
As more and more people get online, eventually there will be no more "them"
and "us" and people will realize that humans are basically the same
wherever they are located. Tribes, nationalities and ethnic groups all
arose because of geographic and communication isolation. As that breaks
down, people will blend and differences will be submerged.
Interestingly, when the telegraph debuted 150 years ago, some predicted
this same process. Of course, it didn't happen because access to the new
device was extremely limited, and what you could transmit was also limited.
The Net is orders of magnitude more powerful. But the process will still
take decades, because that is how long it will take before a majority of
the humans on the planet are wired. I am optimistic that by the middle of
the next century most people will be wired. That is, if we don't have an
ecological catastrophe before then due to our strip-mining of the oceans
and cutting down the last tree.
Barry
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Barry Lee Brisco <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
Web portfolio at <http://www.ToTheWeb.com/portfolio.html>
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