3 Replies to “A Question For The Create-ive”

  1. Maybe I’m unreasonably demanding, but I feel that the best blogs would be both…

    When I was a poet, I respected most the writers who had something to say *and* a way to say it. I felt that the best poets were those who wrote work that was equally viable as spoken or written text (lots of stuff that looks great on the page doesn’t work when you say it out loud, and lots of stuff that *sounds* good dies on the page).

    Back to blogs: I’m not a particularly big fan of design that does stuff just because it *can*… If you’re going to be experimental with the canvas of your blog, it’ll work best if you do so from a standpoint of enhancing your content without upstaging it.

    If I just want cool words and pictures, the web’s full of that. I *come back* to the sites that have great content and also present well. I read most blogs in RSS, so to a degree, the design only matters when I first discover a site or when I discover a site that has a lot of material in the archives and go back through them.

    I come across new ways to do stuff pretty much every day… for me, a lot of the fun in the web 2.0 world is sifting through all that to find the things that will in fact enhance the experience people have when they read my blog.

  2. john…love you points, and i think the question even could go a level deeper. in other words…is your blog “the work,” or is it a place to display your works? for the sake of argument, i would say that artbuzz is a “gallery,” as it is a display vehicle for your work, but perhaps typepadhacks is, on the contrary, a canvas where new creativity is emerging…

  3. Hi Chris,

    I think your distinctions are well drawn… there’s definitely a difference in the way I handle the two blogs, the way they’re set up and why they exist.

    As far as whether the blog is or isn’t “the work,” in my case I don’t make a lot of distinction… kind of everything I do is “the work” for me because it all feeds into the hopper of curiosity, passion, etc. I tend to think that if I’m awake, I’m working (even if I’m just watching a movie or something). If I still was in the habit of remembering my dreams, I’d be able to claim I worked 24/7/365 (heh) but it’s rare that I can recall a dream these days.

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