Associations and activities
- XML/XSLT Consultancy working since 1998 with Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
- Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC/GSLIS) adjunct faculty 2008-
- General Editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) 1996-
- Balisage: The Markup Conference 2008-
- Extreme Markup Languages conferences: appeared 2000-2007
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- The Sonneteer (a demonstration of structured form)
- LMNL: the Layered Markup and Annotation Language (and see the wiki)
- Papers etc.
- PeasML (an authoring tag set), WGLL (an SVG driver tag set), other markup experiments
- Digital photography, tai chi, biking, yard work ...
Values
Think of sustainability, ecosensitivity, healthy balanced complexity. The high technology will be green, there will plenty of animals around, and everyone will be able to find organic vegetables locally.
Pay attention! If you're not already into something (gardening, organizing, mediating, meditating, composting, cleaning, singing?) you need more help than a web page can give you.
Piez.org is a virtual and collapsible organization, an outpost in cyberspace (where every point is the center). Shell, shingle, structure, story, a claim staked in the territory of the imagination.
The Name
“Piez” is a German name, with a German vowel (like “Dietrich” or “Bier”) and an Americanized “z.” It's probably a German short version of Peters (Pietsch or Pietz), but it's curious that “piez” is also Greek for “press,” as in wine press, printing press, or a type of electricity created by pressure: piezoelectricity.