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Poor Internet Applications
By chris dalby | June 26, 2008
I have been toying with the idea for ages of stripping back my wordpress template to sandbox and creating a minimal theme for my blog. I think my blog theme is pretty minimal at the moment, but there is something nice about plain black text and white background.
A classic example of this is Dave Winer’s blog. Minimal. Functional. And looks classically cool IMHO. But it is so difficult to make black text and white background look cool.
I have played with things like tumblr and soup, and have never really found a use for them. Not really. You can pump them full of weird photos and matching tweets and they look cool. But, I’ve never found a use for them.
Today I came across indexhibit after seeing a tweet from @obstructionist (also known as writer Seth Eagelfeld).
Indexhibit is:
A web application used to build and maintain an archetypal, invisible website format that combines text, image, movie and sound.
So I have setup a classic black text and white background poor internet application. Love it :) But I’m still working out what I can use it for, so I won’t link to it just yet.  [update: you can check it out here] OK, so I got my minimal site with a CMS for the backend. But the king of apps nowadays generally link to a gazillian API’s and posts your content to all of your social networking sites.
So we’ll see how this goes. Hope I find a use for it.
Topics: Tech Watch |