Site-scanning and “Matt”
12 Sep 2004http://www.mattheerema.com/archives/000758.html
How come all the cool web design people have the name “Matt”? A worthwhile read, with some very valid points.
I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
http://www.mattheerema.com/archives/000758.html
How come all the cool web design people have the name “Matt”? A worthwhile read, with some very valid points.
phpSysInfo is one of those apps that I don’t mind being on the bleeding edge with, because it’s non-essential, and just so damn cool at times. This new development build doesn’t look as though it has many cool new features (yet — I don’t know how long ago it forked), but hey, it’s always nice to be one of the only people out there running the latest… according to Google, as of this evening, there were only about five people it had indexed as running the phpSysInfo-2.4-cvs build. I feel special.
You can view my specialness here, if you’re interested in seeing this app or what my computer is doing at any given time. That’s assuming it’s turned on/net connected, of course… dependent on myself and iiNet’s ADSL service, respectively.
According to this Wired News article, there are sufficient numbers of stupid people out there to make internet advertising a feasible reality, to the point where expenditure on Online advertising media is tipped to exceed that of Print media in the next year, according to Jupiter Research — in this report, amongst others.
Sigh. I’m unaware of any websites which I frequent that use popups, even by permission — it just doesn’t seem to happen anymore! That said, perhaps I’m just visiting a cleaner, more “annoyance-aware” corner of the web than everyone else is…