Way of the Retainer

One of the pieces of feedback I’ve consistently received in the nicest possible terms, is that what I write here is often inaccessible. (Jules Winnfield would not approve of anything less than clear communication) Now, admittedly some of the topics I talk about are so dense with technical context we could happily orbit a spoonful of their weighty matter.

With other areas however, I’m trying to reach a point where what I’m saying is easily accessible – conveyed not only clearly, but enriched through the transmission. Because I believe there are a  lot of interesting things to say about technology. A lot of them more questions than answers.

So there are two very distinct schools of thought here, that are wont to complete viciously at yearly sports carnivals, and possibly for the affection of that girl.. In order to keep them separate, I’m going to enrich my tagging scheme a little. I’m incorporating the following tags going forward, for each post to classify a target audience:

Gobbledygook – these posts are likely inaccessible due to an alphabet soup of acryonyms and required domain knowledge. But we will TRY to break through the arcane nature of the subject. We will try!

Plain English – these posts are, as much as possible, clear and plain English talking about something straightforward and accessible in the realm of technology. It may still sound like Klingon, but the intent is clarity.

Meta – it’s blogging, about a blog. These posts are where I entertain the delusion of an audience, and stand before them, tweaking knobs and dials.

Here’s to clarity, moving forward!

(also, thank you to those of you who have provided feedback along these lines – really! Otherwise I wouldn’t know that the problem exists…)

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