Re: [humanmarkup-comment] Introduction

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Thanks Henrik,

Boy do we have some tasks for you! Of course that applies to 
everyone. You sound like a candidate for my own understudy, since I 
am also something of a generalist, with a specialty in Web 3D.

Ciao,
Rex

At 11:26 AM +0200 10/15/01, Henrik Brameus wrote:
>Hello,
>
>As a new participant on this list I thought I'd introduce myself (following
>Ranjeeth's recommendation)
>
>Interests:
>==========
>I am interested in the human communication (especially written) in the
>modern computerised age, especially the extension of the normal language to
>show belonging to a group (like h4Ck3Rz do) or emotional value (e.g.
>smilies).
>
>Background:
>===========
>I have worked with personal computers since the late 1970's, and made a
>living from them since the late 1980's. I'm very much a computer generalist,
>with a background in industries like desktop publishing, multimedia and
>voice recording, and positions as technical support,
>localization/internationalization, testing and consultancy. The last few
>years I've been using my technical knowledge to help new high-tech companies
>to be started. I am also involved in other organisations, like IEEE and
>
>Desired Contribution:
>=====================
>I see myself very much trying to keep the work on a simple level with happy
>shouts as "keep it simple" and "don't worry, be crappy". A lot of the
>success of XML is based on that it didn't try to do everything for everyone,
>but left the future open by extensibility.
>
>Direction for Human Markup:
>===========================
>The way I would like HM to go is to help people to handle the ever
>increasing information flow by making it easier to machine process
>information handling like email. I had a conversation in February with
>Randall Schwartz (of Perl fame) that it would be great if you could mark up
>an email with different roles. For example, if I got an email today where
>some of the information was sent to me in my professional capacity, some of
>it to me as a person, and some of it to me as a movie enthusiast that would
>be easy for me to deal with when I got it, but more difficult in the future
>if I try to find the information.
>
>What we came up with was an idea where you could publish which role you have
>(eg. as an XSL) and then use email filtering to extract information from
>emails, so that if I am on holiday, or even have left the company, the
>profeassional information could be forwarded to the appropriate person,
>while the personal information would be kept for me, or forwarded to an
>alternative email address.
>
>In other words, I see something that should be easy to implement, preferably
>transparent to non-compliant applications, and extensible for the future.
>
>Anyway, I think that will have to do for now.
>
>Henrik Brameus
>
>
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