Again, the stupid way human beings "take care" of their creation
has brought nothing more than an enormous waste.
The internet could have been a very useful/powerful tool to help
people share ideas/projects that could make a better place for us
to live, but instead, what we got is another useless (or misused)
media clogged with stubborn and meaningless advertisings that
nobody would even want to read.
Yes, I've enough to see web pages that have only 1/4 of their space
filled with contents (I mean worthy information). You only get
banners, bigger than ever who suck your bandwidth and that you are
forced to read sometimes (layered ads). Everybody focus on terrorists
nowadays, but there is another kind of terrorism. The kind of
terrorists who don't want you do become smarter. They hijack the
knowledge and the great unused potential that people own.
First, we had the promise of radio. Because It became driven by
profit, it has become like a big channel that broadcasts mainly
the same stuff with the same ridiculous spoken ads.
Then, we had TV and it became worse. You have to eat your CMs. In
Australian TV, you get CMs every 10 minutes! Here, in France, you
have to bear big clusters of CMs (during almost 10/15 minutes) at
peak hours.
And now, the same stuff is happening to the internet.
Wherever you go, you are welcomed with pop-ups, gigantic banner ads,
and sneaky layered ads that make you do the only one thing possible:
leave the place. Even scientific sites (newscientist.com, space.com,
wired.com, etc...) have been rotten by this gangrene. There was a time
when only porno websites had the arrogance to throw pop-ups at your face.
Now, go to netscape's home page and see what happen.
How stupid are people who think sites visitors will click on a
banner ad??? People who sell/design/insert those banners would never
click on one of them in their private browsing experience. How can
spammers think people would click on an unwanted mail from some unknown
small stupid company to get a longer penis??
Here is what the internet looks like:
A very vast desert with a few human beings wandering. In this desert,
the number of signs (the ads) is 10 000 times larger than the number
of wandering people found in this desert. Unfortunately for those people,
signroads are scarce. They only know the well too much frequented places
but will hardly find the rare oasis of knowledge and interactivity they
might look for. Ironically, the guardians of this desert (us, web designers
and developpers) are either as lost as the other wanderers or pleased to
mislead others for money (editors of websites clogged by ads and spammers).
I have many personal projects I'm planning to upload in the future.
Of course, you have to make some profit to pay your hosting service and
to be able to get some food for your body. But I'll try to do it the
clever way in respect toward people who visit the site. I'm the one who
believes that you don't have to use banners if people think that what you
offer is interesting enough. Web masters want to make money the easy way
without even thinking they have to offer a challenging service that people
would be happy to use.
I also think that people should see the internet more like a tool than
a media. And some of them should think the internet is art. Why?
Many rich (or not so rich) people can pay thousands or millions of dollars
for a painting. Why not incitate sponsors ("mecenes" in french) to offer
some money to the creator of websites that may help humankind to gain help
or knowledge?
Nowadays, within one second, people can send a message thousands kilometers away.
But ironically, the easiest the information will spread, the meaningless the
information will become. We have to fix this problem quickly because future
technologies will make our everyday life unbearable if we go on this way (think about
wearable screen displays).
A last example: in the metro of Paris, we recently had plenty of flat screens
dispatched everywhere. They broadcast always the same endless loop of CMs.
They will never try to share with people rare thoughts or visions of better
ways to do things.
My Work...
...and More...
has brought nothing more than an enormous waste.
The internet could have been a very useful/powerful tool to help
people share ideas/projects that could make a better place for us
to live, but instead, what we got is another useless (or misused)
media clogged with stubborn and meaningless advertisings that
nobody would even want to read.
Yes, I've enough to see web pages that have only 1/4 of their space
filled with contents (I mean worthy information). You only get
banners, bigger than ever who suck your bandwidth and that you are
forced to read sometimes (layered ads). Everybody focus on terrorists
nowadays, but there is another kind of terrorism. The kind of
terrorists who don't want you do become smarter. They hijack the
knowledge and the great unused potential that people own.
First, we had the promise of radio. Because It became driven by
profit, it has become like a big channel that broadcasts mainly
the same stuff with the same ridiculous spoken ads.
Then, we had TV and it became worse. You have to eat your CMs. In
Australian TV, you get CMs every 10 minutes! Here, in France, you
have to bear big clusters of CMs (during almost 10/15 minutes) at
peak hours.
And now, the same stuff is happening to the internet.
Wherever you go, you are welcomed with pop-ups, gigantic banner ads,
and sneaky layered ads that make you do the only one thing possible:
leave the place. Even scientific sites (newscientist.com, space.com,
wired.com, etc...) have been rotten by this gangrene. There was a time
when only porno websites had the arrogance to throw pop-ups at your face.
Now, go to netscape's home page and see what happen.
How stupid are people who think sites visitors will click on a
banner ad??? People who sell/design/insert those banners would never
click on one of them in their private browsing experience. How can
spammers think people would click on an unwanted mail from some unknown
small stupid company to get a longer penis??
Here is what the internet looks like:
A very vast desert with a few human beings wandering. In this desert,
the number of signs (the ads) is 10 000 times larger than the number
of wandering people found in this desert. Unfortunately for those people,
signroads are scarce. They only know the well too much frequented places
but will hardly find the rare oasis of knowledge and interactivity they
might look for. Ironically, the guardians of this desert (us, web designers
and developpers) are either as lost as the other wanderers or pleased to
mislead others for money (editors of websites clogged by ads and spammers).
I have many personal projects I'm planning to upload in the future.
Of course, you have to make some profit to pay your hosting service and
to be able to get some food for your body. But I'll try to do it the
clever way in respect toward people who visit the site. I'm the one who
believes that you don't have to use banners if people think that what you
offer is interesting enough. Web masters want to make money the easy way
without even thinking they have to offer a challenging service that people
would be happy to use.
I also think that people should see the internet more like a tool than
a media. And some of them should think the internet is art. Why?
Many rich (or not so rich) people can pay thousands or millions of dollars
for a painting. Why not incitate sponsors ("mecenes" in french) to offer
some money to the creator of websites that may help humankind to gain help
or knowledge?
Nowadays, within one second, people can send a message thousands kilometers away.
But ironically, the easiest the information will spread, the meaningless the
information will become. We have to fix this problem quickly because future
technologies will make our everyday life unbearable if we go on this way (think about
wearable screen displays).
A last example: in the metro of Paris, we recently had plenty of flat screens
dispatched everywhere. They broadcast always the same endless loop of CMs.
They will never try to share with people rare thoughts or visions of better
ways to do things.
My Work...
...and More...
The point though is that the beauty of a commercial system is that you're allowed to want more and also allowed to work to get try and get it.