Archive for March 2007
The New Look of the Web
I’ve been really getting into the “web 2.0″ style lately. I never really got it until I started this blog and doing more random surfing. The new look, when done right, actually has a more current, or cutting edge feel to it.
A good example of this is the interland.com website from a year ago.
With a rebranding and a face lift, the site now has that distinctive web 2.0 look.
Which one do you find more appealing?
Flagrant grammar mistakes that make you look stupid
I’m always disagreeing with people on the use of i.e. and e.g. I just looked it up and it turns out that I had it right and everyone else was wrong.
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Content-O-Rama
I have spent way too much tim over the last couple of days obsessing over this blog. I have read and researched and bookmarked and clipped everything I could get my hands on related to the technical and design aspects of blogging. That parts fun to learn, but it distracts from the key, which is content. There is so much information about what makes a “good” blog – one that will be compelling and draw readers – that I pretty much lost sight of the reason I wanted to do this in the first place. So, yes, I’d like to have something that looks nice and is organized well, and maybe even has some sort of cohesive content that people will want to read, but that should be the long game. Right now I’ve got to go back to my original plan; that is to write about anything and everything I feel like for a while. After I’ve gotten over the writers block hurdle and once I’ve figured out what aspects of blogging I enjoy, I can decide on what direction I want to go.
I guess what I’m trying to say is caveat lector1. For now, this blog is going to resemble my desktop – a bunch of crap that may appear random, incomplete, or undeveloped, but that makes perfect sense to me.
1Am I the only one who gets discouraged when a rare bit of whit comes to mind to find out that there’s already a wikipedia article on it?
Blogging Just Got Easier with Clip The Web
I just stumbled upon this plug-in for Firefox that allows you to quickly clip images, text, video and almost everything else you can think of. There’s a basic editor included so you can post to your blog without having to navigate there through your browser. The convenience does come with some limitations. The clipping is posted in a full width box, even though just the logo was selected for clipping.
Still, this is so easy to use I think it will end up being my main source method of posting interesting things I find when I’m not actually on the hunt for a topic.
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