It is especially hard to write regularly during the summer, when days are long and grass grows fast. It’s the season of vacations, sports, home repairs, gardening, and other festivities. No time to be sitting at a keyboard. But blogs require a bit of attention, even in the summer, so I’m going to make an appointment here each Friday evening I’m free. We’ll see how well I keep the schedule.
I would like to find the perfect photo image for a header. I might just pay for the CSS upgrade— just to play around a bit with the colors and fonts. This soft gray is nice, as is this sans-serif, but the blue is not quite what I’d pick. I don’t know if my fussy issues are worth an upgrade at this point, but it’s nice to have the option to completely revise the site—even dramatically, if I want.
Yesterday, I read that Tim Berners-Lee (the web’s inventor) says the Internet is still in its infancy at 15 years. I’m not sure I’d recognize the Web 15 years hence, but I’ve seen some of the places it might go, and tools like WordPress are certainly on that path. I’m especially enthusiastic about the ease of blogging. Aps like WordPress make the web so much more accessible and democratic for people who don’t have time to learn coding. Google and other engines have made some progress at cataloging the content and keeping those who would game their system under control. Scammer, spammers, and botnets aside, Networking has changed the world, and mostly for the better. Granted, some people and businesses have suffered as the Web has caused the ground to shift quickly in many markets, but other opportunities have arisen. As a consumer, I love the choices; perhaps more than I resent the personal decay of privacy as records move out of file cabinets and into hackable databases—in fact, those changes began long before the web.
I am able to find copies of long-lost books I throught I’d never see again, find the most obscure information, see the world through the lense of a million people, instead of the filters of a consolidating mass media, and connect, through words and pictures, with people around the world.
