Re: [design] avoiding the blog

lauf-s writes:

I get the impression that blog software is used ever faithfully to compose
the pages, thus the format is not as free and loose as it is believed to be.

"You have to put on your blog uniform now."

Just another example of how 'branding' really operates?

and retailing mono-culture. i find making pages by hand,
crafting them, can be rather satisfying if there is some
inspiration helping it along. recently wondered about a
webspace as an installation space, not to narrow it to
just this, though there seems to be a huge potential,
still, for new interpretations that are not based just
on technologies and aesthetic trends. (such as, how to
navigate, or process information structures). it may be
that that qatsi.org film also made it clear that there
is a lot that could probably be done with the material
that exists everywhere as media saturated wallpapering,
to potentially change perceptions in fundamental ways.
content management systems (CMS) and other groupware
softwares all carry the same look, feel, functionality,
aesthetics, and also bugs and problems with the design
that can be dealt with if small scale, more manageable
craft-work of webpages. i find the cryptome.org design
to be instructive on how much can be done with simple
yet effective organization, i have not encountered a
similar 'style' anywhere else. or for that matter,
quondam, or even my own site in terms of approach.
maybe the glorification of literal 'visualization'
of anything and everything also causes sight loss,
lack of depth perception, and distorted judgments.
one reason i like basic html is that it can still
be archived and seen on a local machine, without
needing to configure a computer to show a web-
database, something that cannot be easily done,
offline, unless a techie. that is, people cannot
see or view their work, offline, unless they can
figure out how to load web software locally. and
the dynamic urls and other things also lose a lot
of designed information to randomness. there is an
elegance to earlier standards that has been erased,
such that an url can mean something potentially as
a name, a location/address, whatever. like street-
signs, if on the internet an example may be this:

lakjdf;la&-adfojal;k(((#()0091--1--1((7OPLj;ldefasdf.php


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  • [design] cryptome (was: avoiding the blog)
    • From: Michael Kaplan
  • [design] note: list description
    • From: brian carroll
  • Re: [design] avoiding the blog
    • From: lauf-s
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