Simon St. Laurent said:
> The "essence of the creativity" is about working
> with a minimal set of standards and tools to
> include as much creativity from as many different
> people as possible by valuing context over
> standardization.
> That's not at all about breaking standards. It's about
> working with the smallest set of standards that will
> support the conversation (with the people actually
> having the conversation in their live contexts) and
> building appropriately from there.
> Markup syntax is a convenient minimal standard for
> supporting electronic communication. There are useful
> tools for manipulating it. Standardize and improve the
> tools for manipulating markup, rather than trying to
> lock down what is said with markup.
Simon, this is excellent.
/Roger
