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Linearality of the Blog Model

I’ve had this blog for a bit but I am always stretching for things to fit into this linear container. This format seems too structured and ordered for what I really want to have here. It’s just not representative of how I want the site to be or what I want to do outside of my daily web-development work.  I would like to post a lot of my new photo-works up here along with other artsy-fartsy stuff but the creation and display of those things is just not suited for a blog.  More of like a gallery.  Or just a large room with lots of wall space.  In any case I need to make some additions to this site for any of this to happen.
During the day I make things more efficient and organized. And, in a way, I don’t want to be that way here. I want to do what I used to. I want to do what I’m doing for Take Solace and what misprinted-type and radiohead have been doing utilizing the crazy-linked-labyrinth that only the web allows. I only wish I could find my old sites. (This is version 8 if you didn’t know).

The power of the web medium is the hyperlink and it’s non-linear nature. A blog, by definition, is linear because of it’s date ordering, journal style. I don’t have that daily-newspaper-style in me after 5pm anymore since it’s all been bled out. I don’t write that way either. I like to stick things in the middle. Add to the beginning. Change the end.

I’ll keep the blog as a subsection. [to archive this content and to allow me to add random ramblings when the mood arises]
Now that the decision has been made the next issue to deal with is what it should be. I think I’ll just start. I always find that’s the worst part, just starting. After that work just takes on a mind of it’s own. But definitely look for a new, haphazard dirq-web with this blog for a back-story instead of a main-feature.

Author: Dirk Watkins

Dirk Watkins was born in Door County. He studied computer science and art at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Dirk now works as a web developer in Milwaukee programming mostly in C#, Javascript, T-SQL and the occasional regular expression. For design he likes to utilize as much standard CSS (positioning and styles) as possible. In his spare time Dirk brews beer, plays guitar, reads, listens to NPR, works on his house, and sleeps on quiet beaches.

One Comment

  1. If you’re tired of linear take a look at
    f(x)=X squared, or f(x)= x cubed.