People To Know: Whitney Keyes

There are a lot of people in Seattle making a difference in the business world. One of them is Whitney Keyes.

Whitney helps entrepreneurs find fast, focused, fun, and affordable ways to boost their business. She also co-produces and hosts WhitneyandWyatt.com, a TV-style talk show, and MarketSmart, a weekly podcast. Whitney speaks, writes, and consults internationally on a range of business, marketing and lifestyle topics. She also writes articles and produces videos for The Biz Bite, a business blog for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Visit the Whitney Keyes Website

We've done coffee, she's part of an artist family, very popular in Tacoma. Worth sending a note to, especially if you're an author looking to get the word out. Through her, I met Richele from The Arc magazine. She knows how to network and she's smart about it. She's good people.

New Web Project: Ann Wendell (Author)

So, after a really long break, actually... scratch that. I've been working like mad ever since J and I got back from Chi-town. But a break from blogging nonetheless. Well, it's blog-time and I've got a bunch to post.

First off, I recently designed & created a website for author Ann Wendell. There you'll find all the details about her exciting contributions to the Images from America series, from her first book, Seattle's Ravenna Neighborhood to her latest... Frederick & Nelson. You'll also find information about her novel, (a comedy about cancer, friendship, and a Grim Reaper who lives in the Seattle Underground), along with news and upcoming events where you can meet Ann personally. She's a fun person to work with, and her writing is impeccable. Go ahead and give her site a spin...

Ann Wendell Books

Credit Where Credit Is Due

I received an article from a friend about the concept of removing author credits from news stories and editorials all together. Although one can understand the perspective and reasoning as to why author credits are not needed in a wonderful world of Wiki, I'm thinking that in certain cases not only will credits become more prominent, but will also be essential as background information on the source of the information, especially with the rise of tabloid journalism.

Over the next five to ten years professionally published articles will become more like community property. More specifically, someone edits a previously written article to their liking, then would post the revised article with their name listed as an editor (or additional content provided by themselves) next to the original writer. It will work similar to Wikipedia. You'll be able to click on the author (and then the additional author's) complete set of vital statistics, and thus reveal one's political affiliations, perspectives, that sort of thing. This will certainly come more into play as Web 3.0 comes into focus, when... in theory the web will visually become more multidimensional. We might physically be able to see two sides of an argument. This would future illustrate how points and counterpoints are, in many ways, reliant on the other's existence.

This is the future of web content, the ability to see information from multiple perspectives, and choose what information you want to allow in your life according to preference. Removing an author's name is the wrong direction. People will want to know the sources of the information, and consider that aspect just as important as the information itself. With technology, the idea of just presenting related stories will be old hat. We'll be able to show opposing stories, semi-related stories, and have visual scales showing just how much one perspective deviates from the other. Features like this will become more necessary as the internet grows in size, and will be made possible when the web's next iteration includes new artificial intelligence capabilities, which can already be hinted at when amazon.com tells you what you may like to purchase based on your previous searches.

Information management and process will not only be the future of commercial web, but it will also be a major them in 21st century art. More on that later...