On Blogging
This is his "Poyness" on the value of blogging:
"In this digital age, when many students think that research is
googleing and libraries are dead matter, attention has relocated on the
web – where there is is the need to raise the standard of discussion
about design."
- Rick Poynor, at the News Views Graphic Design History Symposium
29.10.05
Happy Birthday Copy-Blog!
posted by copy team at 4:13 PM
2 Comments:
why is there a need to raise standards anyway? who cares if the discussion about design is beneath contempt? and what does it mean 'to raise standards' anyway...? is it like raising a gerbils or children or turnips? do we really want anymore standards? shouldnt we try to raise some uniques or atleast raise some moderately originals? why on and on about raising standards? the bloody things seem to raise themselves.
oh, and incidentally, have you noticed the being-john-malkovich effect of this blog, in which all posts are presumably by nitzan even though in actual fact they are not.
...maybe its just a side effect of all the standards...
oh, and another thing: when academics snub googling and then go on about the need to raise standards online i always get a flash of the kids in the playground who wanted to keep on playing hide-and-seek even though everyone was sick of it and so they would count and presume that everyone was busy hiding but instead everyone just went to check out something cool somewhere else. and so, i think it reminds me of the kids who couldnt see the game was over. but anyway, my point is, that by suggesting that standards need to be raised, doesnt that also suggest that they arnt very high, and who but scholarly academics could fix that? a bit of online rigor for the good 'ol days ey?
screw the library-going antiques, if they want to join in the new google-game, let them face the fact that the rules have changed. in google-land, its the number of hits you get, and not the number of hits you give that counts.
hows that for raising the standard...
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