Searching the Creative Internet
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- How do we make the creative internet easy to navigate?
What I miss about my ”90s internet” wasn’t it specifically, with its slow data links, tiny JPEGs, buffering RealPlayer, or the
<blink> tag. It did not have the tiniest fraction of the wonderful content the internet has today.
What I miss is that I could “go on the internet” and be in a creative corner of the human experience. (View Highlight)
- Today you have to choke your way through the money-making miasma to find the joy.
I wish the internet of creative people and their works had a front page and a search engine. Something that made finding the blog about the search for planet 9 easy to find, and the New Yorker article on it hard to find. A place where wikipedia articles came first, where all the interesting technical stuff you might find in whitequark’s feed was what you got instead of sidebar ads, not buried away behind the popular and the profitable. Where a D&D podcast made by three brothers and their dad in West Virginia was as easy to find as the podcasts produced by NPR’s $200m/year machine. (View Highlight)
title: “Searching the Creative Internet”
author: “crawshaw.io”
url: ”https://crawshaw.io/blog/searching-the-creative-internet”
date: 2023-07-29
source: reader
tags: media/articles
Searching the Creative Internet
Metadata
Highlights
- How do we make the creative internet easy to navigate?
What I miss about my ”90s internet” wasn’t it specifically, with its slow data links, tiny JPEGs, buffering RealPlayer, or the
<blink> tag. It did not have the tiniest fraction of the wonderful content the internet has today.
What I miss is that I could “go on the internet” and be in a creative corner of the human experience. (View Highlight)
- Today you have to choke your way through the money-making miasma to find the joy.
I wish the internet of creative people and their works had a front page and a search engine. Something that made finding the blog about the search for planet 9 easy to find, and the New Yorker article on it hard to find. A place where wikipedia articles came first, where all the interesting technical stuff you might find in whitequark’s feed was what you got instead of sidebar ads, not buried away behind the popular and the profitable. Where a D&D podcast made by three brothers and their dad in West Virginia was as easy to find as the podcasts produced by NPR’s $200m/year machine. (View Highlight)
title: “Searching the Creative Internet”
author: “crawshaw.io”
url: ”https://crawshaw.io/blog/searching-the-creative-internet”
date: 2023-12-19
source: reader
tags: media/articles
Searching the Creative Internet
Metadata
Highlights
- How do we make the creative internet easy to navigate?
What I miss about my ”90s internet” wasn’t it specifically, with its slow data links, tiny JPEGs, buffering RealPlayer, or the
<blink> tag. It did not have the tiniest fraction of the wonderful content the internet has today.
What I miss is that I could “go on the internet” and be in a creative corner of the human experience. (View Highlight)
- Today you have to choke your way through the money-making miasma to find the joy.
I wish the internet of creative people and their works had a front page and a search engine. Something that made finding the blog about the search for planet 9 easy to find, and the New Yorker article on it hard to find. A place where wikipedia articles came first, where all the interesting technical stuff you might find in whitequark’s feed was what you got instead of sidebar ads, not buried away behind the popular and the profitable. Where a D&D podcast made by three brothers and their dad in West Virginia was as easy to find as the podcasts produced by NPR’s $200m/year machine. (View Highlight)