Nathan at Work

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• uploading my aunts head.. #
• changing colors… #

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Earlier I posted about picking a font for this blog, which got shri to thinking further about fonts.. in turn I thought a bit further and perhaps realised something(s)

• in author/designer mode I want to further express myself via the use of font
• in reader mode I would prefer to have some standardised format for reading everything
• depending on the mood, and importance of how quickly I need to retrieve a bit of information, I may also want to see the content as the author/designer intended
• it would be useful if my choice of display font was portable
• meanwhile it would also be useful if a standard use anywhere font choice was globally accepted, for instance what font would be used on the instructions which tell you how to setup you’re roaming font profile? or on the os installation screen?
• if I’m reading in arabic though that english font would be a bit useless
• I’d hope the font would support all character encodings and be supported by all applications
• choice of font is context specific, I want to read code in a different font to a general post, and I’d prefer a title to be in a different font to the paragraph text.. and shri mentioned it’s a decision at the semantic level.

I believe it’s impossible to address in full, or even part; the above issues will be ultimately resolved when we have the perfect invisible interface, true HCI, the age when these words are simply thoughts with context attached and semantic information that’s injected directly in to ones brain.

@future-blog-maybe
All of the words I’ve ever written, and indeed anybody, have been written to convey some form of thought from one human to another; what we really need is a method of transporting thought between humans; you’d never misunderstand, mistake somebodies tone, take something out of context and you’d be able to understand and indeed learn, instantly and efficiently. Until that day we’re all lumbered with spending most of our time trying to convey a thought to other people, and paying for the privilege dearly (every script or program I’ve ever written was to in some way address this conveying of thought issue).

It may make an interesting study to analyse a cross section of websites from personal blogs to corporate sites in order to find out if a meaningful introduction / about us page / description has anything to do with success and longevity of the site (even the company/person), and indeed the weight it carries with it’s readers and the online community as a whole.

An even more interesting, or perhaps more controversial, study would be to analyse the first posts of my fellow co-workers at kraya on this multi blog site and see if its possible to predict how often they will update their blogs, how long they will continue this for, and of course if we can in some way predict the “success” of their blog. Possibly worth defining the word success in this context as well!

Just a thought..

@see /blog-context/beginning/ for context/