On 8/11/05, Stefan Magdalinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Richard Lockwood wrote:
> You are Jacob Neilsen in disguise and I claim my five pounds. You want
> to see everything in black Times Roman on a grey background with no
> images. You haven't yet twigged that for the web to be a rich source of
> ideas, information and innovation, someone needs to pay for it. Which
> means paid for content (generally porn - the most successful paid for
> content by a mile) or advertising and marketing spend. You choose.
>
> Download a copy of Lynx, or Netscape 2. That should do the trick.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rich.
>
Wow. I thought all the people like you had gone off to design DVD
interfaces in about '98.
You've clearly never read any Neilsen.
stef
Sorry Stefan, but I've read a lot of Neilsen over the years, and he still manages to frequently annoy me. However my comment was perhaps over flippant when dealing with a serious subject, and for that I apologise.
My point however that what you and J.P. describe as "chaff" is neccessary for the evolution and development of the web still holds. Someone has to pay for all this wonderful "free" content - if you can come up with a better globally applicable model for it than advertising or paid content then all power to you.
Yes, granted, there's a lot of irritating stuff being produced in Flash and other advertising media - but there's been an awful lot of rubbish produced in the name of "content" too, both in print and on the web. But no-one would wish to ban the written word. The delivery method is not the culprit, the lack of creativity is. Would you throw your TV set away simply because you didn't enjoy some of the programmes?
I thought people like you had gone off to smash mill machinery in about 1812.
Cheers,
Rich.
