Have you written a blog post or expressed your thoughts on the recent compatibility brouhaha?

[Ryan Joy]

I'm referring, of course, to the discussions and arguments that have
come out of ALA's recent articles on forward-compatibility and browser
targeting to 'future proof' websites. Alex Jones shared his preliminary
thoughts at http://silverspider.com and Andrew Dupont has also written
an entry at http://andrewdupont.net. Have you written anything on this?

I'd like to start a weekly roundup of Refresh members' writings. I've
started this week's with Future-Proofing the Web
(http://www.refreshaustin.org/2008/refresh-roundup-future-proofing-the-web/).

This will be a really difficult task for one person to maintain, so I'm
thinking of ways to really make it collaborative. My initial thoughts
are that we could create a 'bucket' to add links for blogs posts,
tweets, flickr photos, etc. throughout the week. At the end of the
week, one of us would sift through the bucket and post things from it to
the round-up.

Thoughts and suggestions are welcome.

-RYAN JOY

[Alex Jones]

This is a great idea Ryan! Anyone who signs up for the blog can create
a post and choose to keep it as a draft if you want to set it up as a
bucket, or don't feel like you have enough to work with yet. I also
like the fact that this will interlink the personal sites of our
members as discussions come up.

Alex Jones
www.SilverSpider.com

[Ryan Joy]

Oh, and I need to know other members' personal blog and twitter URLs
to aid discovery! Add them to this post or email 'em to me off list.

-RYAN
http://atxryan.com
http://twitter.com/atxryan

[Ryan Joy]

Hi folks,

As I mentioned last week, I've created a weekly entry on the Refresh
Austin website to highlight anything local Refreshers have written.
Articles or posts written by non-Refresh Austin members might also be
included if it's of interest to the group, but it'd be great if it
were mainly posts from our own.

Anyway... I need material. Do you have any suggestions or submissions
for this week?

-RYAN JOY
http://atxryan.com

[Christian Watson]

Ryan, I post pretty regularly on my blog - www.smileycat.com - and I'd
like to get more involved with Refresh Austin as I approach my first
anniversary of living in this fair city.

[Ryan Joy]

Thanks, Christian. I look forward to meeting you at one of our upcoming
meetings and will keep an eye on your blog for inclusion in the Roundup.

Welcome to Refresh Austin!

-RYAN JOY
http://atxryan.com