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Tumblelog byChristopher Clay, founder of Soup.io.
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Output so far
Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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October 18 2009
October 01 2009
“ The blog format is responsible for a thousand tawdry tablogs: hideous half-breeds of tabloid and blog built around odeous content, cluttered site designs, and optimised for pageviews alone.— Rise of the Tablog → Put Things Off
Tabloggers aren’t writing; they’re creating content — content that hopes to satisfy self-inflicted quotas [and] boost traffic. Tabloggers write from a sense of obligation; a feeling that their content must be regular and — worst of all — useful.
Yet tablogs publish the ugliest kind of useful information: vacuous lists, tutorials, and recycled how-tos that try so hard to be handy as to become meaningless, soulless, voiceless and occasionally dangerous.
Add to this the machine gun calls to action in the form of me-too social networks, overpriced affiliate promotions, and chocolate box ad matrices, and what you have is a shit tip of information design. ”
(Die, SmashingMagazine, die!)
March 28 2009
“ HTML is not an output format. HTML is The Format. Not The Format Of Forever, but damn if it isn’t The Format Of The Now. ”— Mark Pilgrim
Reposted by
fin
February 16 2008
The original version of Fray, started by Derek Powazek in 1996, is still my all-time favorite creative web project.
From way before blogs existed up until 2003, it was an online collection of personal short stories, sorted into the categories Criminal, Hope, Work and Drugs, and told in hypertext in a way only possible on the internet.
The lack of a content management system or templates meant that each story's hand-crafted HTML gave it a different feel from any other, with a level of attention to detail you just don't see on the web anymore: Some stories are illustrated with animated GIFs, some are creatively split up into framesets, each with short paragraphs optimized for online reading, powerful one-liners as "next page" links, and a question encouraging readers to send in their own stories at the end.
Here are some favorites, have a look: The Scar, The Worm Within, Homecoming, Baker Beach, Reality Check, Mugged and Geographic.
From way before blogs existed up until 2003, it was an online collection of personal short stories, sorted into the categories Criminal, Hope, Work and Drugs, and told in hypertext in a way only possible on the internet.
The lack of a content management system or templates meant that each story's hand-crafted HTML gave it a different feel from any other, with a level of attention to detail you just don't see on the web anymore: Some stories are illustrated with animated GIFs, some are creatively split up into framesets, each with short paragraphs optimized for online reading, powerful one-liners as "next page" links, and a question encouraging readers to send in their own stories at the end.
Here are some favorites, have a look: The Scar, The Worm Within, Homecoming, Baker Beach, Reality Check, Mugged and Geographic.
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