Introduction - of sorts

This being an introduction, it might be most appropriate to provide biographical information, lists of interests or some other information providing you the reader with insight into who I am and why its worth reading further. However blogs were meant to capture those qualities that the author is who his or her readership believes him/her to be. If this is the case, which I think it very likely it is, I'll offer only a thumbnail sketch of the pertinent details. The blog itself will take on a character - my character - as an expression of my contributions and our exchanges.

The person -- virtualized. 

It may be foolhardy to enter the blogosphere with such a heady initial subject. But before I jump off and expound, allow me to provide some context of the autobiographical sort. I am and have been an analyst, an industry analyst. For much of the past six years I've had the pleasure of plying my craft with various firms. When I first became an analyst actually did not know what an analyst was. I knew what the dictionary said. However I had been in the field installing, integrating and babysitting hardware and software solutions and the people who use them. At the periphery of this world lived the industry analyst. On occasion the analyst would find her way into our world -- but only in spirit never in body. Analysts were people that our customers referred to - much like an auto mechanic presented with a “Road & Track” article by a nervous or nervously enthusiastic owner. This person provided comfort to the consumer but not always wisdom or insight. This is what I knew – and what I know – because this condition is not limited to the past or past tense.

So by way of autobiography, I have endeavored to fuse these disparate aspects of the information technology industry. The last ingredient of this fusion, this blending of types, concerns, perspectives is a brief but rich experience I garnered working with a hardware vendor at well-funded early stage startup in Seattle. 

At this point an image is probably taking shape in your mind. The introduction so far been well short of a thousand words is I suspect leaving you with a rather spartan picture. And this is where it ties back to my mention of the virtualized person. For you who don't know me (and even if you do) the picture your mind is painting and the context your mind is establishing relies on the specific colors from the limited palette I have provided thus far. Its is an abstract, or is an art historian may say a detail. At the risk of being too academic or for that matter technical how does one distinguish between the abstract or the virtualized and the real.

This last question/statement is one of several seeds or concepts that I will continually revisit as I discussion the technology marketplace, uses of products and solutions by end-users and the creative application and innovation pursued by engineers, developers and crafty users as each seeks to make sense of information in a context and distinguished those contexts across discrete technical realms.

And I will before to very long provide an actual biography with some tangible fact. Facts are good. They are necessary to facilitate any conversation(s) that emerge. I intend to facilitate high degrees of freedom – conceptually – yet always want to return to solid ground which is where we live and work and love - and apply the motifs of our dreams.