Comments for Experiment Haywire

Comment on If this is social media where will the antisocial types go? by Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:35:12 +0000

I really enjoyed this post! I am particularly bothered by the point you raised about the lack of originality in modern blogging, and the emphasis on retweeting/reblogging, especially since the rise of tumblr and twitter. I used to follow people who only ever reblogged on tumblr, and I just think “what’s the point?”

Comment on If this is social media where will the antisocial types go? by Simon

Simon — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:02:14 +0000

Even if everything was in XHTML/XML then you’d still have to style the site with something, and that something would be CSS. It’s how you separate the content from style it’s how all web pages are told how to look, what colours they should have…even to what browsers should display what style sheets.

I think you’ve missed the point here.

Comment on If you hate celebrity culture quit acting like a turd by amzaed

amzaed — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:19:18 +0000

fuk fame

Comment on If this is social media where will the antisocial types go? by William George Parha

William George Parha — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:58:56 +0000

I remember compiling WorldWideWeb from code to see the first website at CERN back in 90 or 91. I have seen the whole landscape of the Internet change multiple times, and it always seems to come down to the same things. A few of us try to build a better world, a world where our looks and genders and races don’t matter, just our words and then this perfect world of thoughts and ideas and actions in taken away from us by the corporate swine that only want to sell us porn and surface cleaners and low interest loans. Web 2.0 is great and all, but it is still just the web. Maybe with a little bit slicker of an interface. If we don’t take the time to find our own tribes out here and build something real, it’s all just pictures of peoples cats and group fucking. Same as it ever was…

WordPress is a huge step backwards technologically. One could customize more with less knowledge on an old Geocities site. The fact that WordPress is still based on CSS blows my mind. CSS is a dead technology. Everything should be built on XML/XHTML. That’s a clean markup language that allows you to build what you need the way that you need it. CSS is an overly complicated way to make something look pretty even if the content is lacking. But, I am getting older, so I tend to grumble about things more these days. I actually go to websites to get information, not for the pretty pictures. I could care less about what the page looks like as long as the content is good. Unless there is any blinky text. Blinky text makes me wanna get all Medieval on someone!

That being said, I can’t tell you how happy I am to see you still out there and active, Rachel. You were always one of the lights shining in the darkness. A comrade on this road of self discovery and self actualization. Keep up the good fight, and hopefully we will get to meet in the physical plane again someday.

Berashith Always,
WGP

Comment on If this is social media where will the antisocial types go? by dizzy d

dizzy d — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:54:13 +0000

is everyone a social media couch?

Spelling brigade! Observation one!
Rachel get on the ball!

Comment on If this is social media where will the antisocial types go? by Ridgely

Ridgely — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:51:10 +0000

Aww, hon. CSS is just a very labor-intensive Perky Pat layout. Which is to say, it’s the code version of paper dolls. I like it as a design puzzle. Message me if you run into any snags or need anything done in this vein. I’m working on my own site, so I’m curious about variations.

Comment on If this is social media where will the antisocial types go? by Iniara

Iniara — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 01:49:18 +0000

I’m also the kind of girl that hand coded her own site when she was 15. I don’t consider myself a blogger but I have posted my random thoughts in different places throughout the years. But I hardly find WordPress to be limiting.

Being the social hermit that I am I have no idea what other antisocials do but I happily share whatever I find interesting (news, articles, etc.) via social mediums and every now and then I write actual blogs on my site.

Blogging has difinitely evolved. It’s easier to broadcast content but like everything, it could be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. But what would you call “antisocial media” and how is it really different from social media? It’s easy to see who’s begging for attention and who doesn’t. There are always those who speak their minds simply to share a point and those who speak for the sake of being listened to. In that sense, not much has really changed, it’s really about accessibility. The geeks aren’t elite anymore because anyone can have a blog and spew vomit but so what? The value in the content published is what matters and although not everyone can acknowledge it, those who care, do. Intelligence cannot exist without ignorance.

Comment on If this is social media where will the antisocial types go? by hypno5ive

hypno5ive — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:57:20 +0000

Excellent!!! … and don’t forget prior to 2002 how we all got along writing on stone tablets.

Comment on Longing by Rachel Haywire

Rachel Haywire — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:05:21 +0000

Thank you. I have a feeling you “get it.”

Comment on Longing by bryan babylon

bryan babylon — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:56:47 +0000

Hey, I like this I am going to trade it with my snail mail penpal we trade poetry back and forth, I will give you a proper mla citation. Your captchas are hard I have messed up three times already If I cant post this time I am going to give up.