Day of the Dreamweavers

01 September 2010 (N-2) - H O O D

They don’t understand their audiences because they’re not used to using data aggressively.

They view their sites as mere brand extensions and fail to treat them as stand-alone media properties.

They don’t understand usability and make their sites pretty but impossible to navigate, and then naively think they’ll educate their users to find their content.

They don’t understand Web metabolism and produce content that’s stale.

They think Web content is inherently inferior when it’s merely different, and create inferior Web products as a result then wonder why they’re not succeeding.

They fail to monetize their products properly, then underpay talent and wonder why they can’t recruit good writers.

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Elizabeth Spiers on how traditional mainstream gets digital wrong (via soupsoup)

I did a Q&A with the Knoxville News on web media, etc.

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…you must realize that in this life it will be impossible to continue in this work [of contemplation] with the same intensity all the time. Sickness, afflictions of body and mind, and countless other necessities of nature will often leave you indisposed and keep you from its heights. Yet, at the same time, I counsel you to remain at it always either in earnest or, as it were, playfully. What I mean is that through desire you can remain with it even when other things intervene.

– Anonymous, “The Cloud of Unknowing” (translated by William Johnston) (from dreaminginthedeepsouth via: Anamchara) (via crashinglybeautiful)

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Such is beauty ever — neither here nor there, now nor then, neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire. If I seek her elsewhere because I do not find her at home, my search will prove a fruitless one.

– Henry David Thoreau (via saturnrising | miadat | fuckyeahthoreau | crashinglybeautiful)

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