web 3.0
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- clearThoughts
Will personality and individuality ever have a come-back online?
Seems like sticking bad written copy with digital images on a Wordpress template is what the Internet is about these days.
- ukit0
It will, right after people stop using words like web 3.0
- clearThoughts0
I'm just being sarcastic. Web 2.0 is just pretty soul destroying.
- "Sticking bad written copy" ...;)ukit
- Thanks O'Reilly!brandon_phillip
- DrBombay0
Not sure why, you can play with the css and make it look and feel however you like.
- scarabin0
there's one of you in EVERY subculture. the person who goes on and on about how great "the scene" used to be.
i have news for you: the internet was ALWAYS ugly, and it was ALWAYS populated with useless, inane bullshit.
either quit complaining about it or actually invent what it is you're imagining it should be. waiting for the idiot masses to bumble along and accidentally do your will is for bitches
...and doesn't "web 2.0" refer to new types of functionality? how is a more capable internet something bad?
- ideaist0
personality and individuality have never left; they are simply harder traits to find...
Much like sorting through generic music in order to find gems and true diamonds in the rough...
I blame advertising for confusing "style" for "originality"...
Thus you see a lot of cargo collective and krop portfolios instead of hand/digitally crafted works of true art/design...
- ukit0
There is a trade off between originality and standardization
Standardization is good for everyone...just like when they settled on the A1 paper size printing became much cheaper and easier.
- the two are completely separate though.. originality is about ideas and standardisation is about technologylukus_W
- Yeah - but web standardization leaves no room for anything creative or slightly different.clearThoughts
- (the css nazis aren't to blame on this one)lukus_W
- clearThoughts.. how so?lukus_W
- dnewbie0
How many times have u heard a art or creative director comment on how creative a designers navigation or 3 page splash into is - not very often. They just want to see the work. CMS templates work fine when the work is good.
- utopian0
web 4.0 is right around the corner...
- clearThoughts0
I understand this is the way things are moving, so you have to embrace it or you'll just be out of it.
The advertising and marketing models for online are forcing everybody to aim at creating cheap content that will get you as many pageviews as possible.
If online is here to replace print, I'm really gonna miss magazines - badly. I don't know of any blog out there that gives me the same experience as reading a well put together magazine.
- clearThoughts0
And Blogs ARE killing magazines. Particularly blogspot accounts where people post the magazine scans before they even hit the shelves.
Why would you buy a magazine if you can get it for free online?
- ideaist0
It all revolves around the basic need most people have to have everything classified and categorized or else they do not understand it... And who says the internet needs to progress any farther??? Why not a return to print design fundamentals in order to create new exciting online experiences...???
- ukit0
I wasn't trying to say standardization is all good or all bad...it's just a push and pull between those two things. Standardization is good in the sense that it helps proliferate ideas and makes the cost of doing business cheaper...which can result in greater creativity in other areas.
As an example, HTML is a standard...we've all agreed to use HTML to write webpages, that carries with it obvious limitations...but if everyone had to create their own markup language from scratch not a lot would get done, would it? The fact that we have a standard has allowed a lot more creative shit to happen on the web.
- clearThoughts0
HTML is a protocol rather than a standard. But I get your point. It's great how websites can communicate between each other easily these days.
What I was trying to say, is that it isn't really possible for somebody to sell good quality content online. It does not pay well.
And this is mainly due to the standarization and the way information can easily be copied, etc.Can anybody think of anybody creating great content online?
What will happen once nobody can afford to make any films, magazines, books?
I guess we move onto the next era - right? We get old and talk about how things used to be better in the past?