http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/07/24/i-want-to-start-another-movement/ Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry by Ethan Kaplan, VP Product, Live Nation Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:55:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/07/24/i-want-to-start-another-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-188240 beth Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:21:21 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/07/24/i-want-to-start-another-movement/#comment-188240 It certainly doesn't help that the widgets these companies tend to offer (particularly LastFM and that Flash crap they have) are giant, clunky monstrosities. Sometimes I think a small add on or two can be a nice touch if subtle, and mainly text. It's this drag and drop / copy and paste crap that's really a problem. But yeah, a lot of people could stand to learn from the lesson less is definitely more on the web. It certainly doesn’t help that the widgets these companies tend to offer (particularly LastFM and that Flash crap they have) are giant, clunky monstrosities. Sometimes I think a small add on or two can be a nice touch if subtle, and mainly text. It’s this drag and drop / copy and paste crap that’s really a problem. But yeah, a lot of people could stand to learn from the lesson less is definitely more on the web.

]]> http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/07/24/i-want-to-start-another-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-188211 Dave Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:26:11 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/07/24/i-want-to-start-another-movement/#comment-188211 Your post splits me in half (I found you, by the way, through a post about WBR and Drupal). My "blog" iherebydecree.com is just text (and one small background image). (I need to update the CSS, but that is a different matter) As a freelance developer my main business, or at least the thing I get the most work requests for, is widgets. So I agree and simultaneously disagree. I am of the opinion that blogs should also represent the persons who write them. I like just text, so I designed my blog that way. My friend is way in to music and so he has a little music player. My other friend really likes Digg and so he adds his recently dugg stories. Your post splits me in half (I found you, by the way, through a post about WBR and Drupal). My “blog” iherebydecree.com is just text (and one small background image). (I need to update the CSS, but that is a different matter) As a freelance developer my main business, or at least the thing I get the most work requests for, is widgets. So I agree and simultaneously disagree. I am of the opinion that blogs should also represent the persons who write them. I like just text, so I designed my blog that way. My friend is way in to music and so he has a little music player. My other friend really likes Digg and so he adds his recently dugg stories.

]]> http://www.blackrimglasses.com/2007/07/24/i-want-to-start-another-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-188200 Rich Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:06:33 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/07/24/i-want-to-start-another-movement/#comment-188200 I've sometimes toyed with stripping my weblog down to just RSS feeds. The main page would be an RSS feed of full articles, the archives page an RSS feed of headlines, and each article an RSS feed with the article and comments. For people using web browsers rather than RSS readers I'd use XSL stylesheets to make each feed look like a normal webpage. I’ve sometimes toyed with stripping my weblog down to just RSS feeds. The main page would be an RSS feed of full articles, the archives page an RSS feed of headlines, and each article an RSS feed with the article and comments. For people using web browsers rather than RSS readers I’d use XSL stylesheets to make each feed look like a normal webpage.

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