design portals dying? why?
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yah, or www.delijst.net, which doesn't mean anything to most of you, but for a lot of us Dutch (or Flanders) peeps in the webdesign branche, it has been our daily starting page (as newstoday, surfstation, k10k, DiK or pixelsurgeon has been for many of you).
I guess that designportals is a thing of our generation and now that we all are 'growing up', we have less time to maintain them, cos I know that is extremely time consuming. But with a partner, kids and a more demanding job, where do you find the time to also keep a portal site up and running. Respect to all of them though, cos they have been our source of inspiration and knowledge for many years.
It should be the new generation (age 17-23) taking over with new and exciting designportal initiatives... but where are they? Is today's designer's generation already so blase?
- it's not that they're blase, it's more that the model for portals like pixelsurgeon and lounge72 is a bit outdated and the kids now appear to be using their own blogs, syndicating more content themselves and generally using things like facebook and myspace etc.jamble