July 18, 2000
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Part of me wishes that I knew more people in the web design community beyond the transient links that we form via email and our weblogs. Back when I was in charge of developing new visual content products for one the previous iterations of the company I work for, I was a regular attendee of MacWorld and the Seybold seminars. Something that made these trips enjoyable was recognizing familiar faces and talking shop with everyone else who happened to be slogging their new digital wares. Even though I’ve been building sites since 1995, I have yet to experience that same level of familiarity with other web designers and developers. I’m not sure if it’s because the web community is more fragmented by nature, or if it’s merely the fact that the technology we envelope ourselves in encourages loose, transactional immediacy over slowly-formed permanent relationships. Meeting people face to face isn’t always better than an online conversation. In fact, I find it to be a strangely awkward task to accomplish almost to the point of avoidance. However, it is something that I am forcing myself to do, specifically here in Seattle.
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