A former colleague of mine loved to use the phrase "privileged discourse." While the utterance of such a thing would usually end in me ribbing him about going to a fancy, Ivy League school, his point was always that certain people have a skill which often amounts to nothing more than knowledge about a subject that someone else does not have.
For me personally, it's the web. I know enough about programming to take someone else's basic HTML and adapt to my own needs, but that's about it. So besides taking a few months and learning to code (something I am in the position to do and likely will attempt) how could I ever hope to create web applications that work as I am outside the realm of privileged discourse needed to understand that process.
Thanks to SubmleUpon, I just might be able to work around my deficiency by using the programs listed in this article: http://tinyurl.com/m6hj8p . Point and drag and drop and execute is what these programs are all about. Breaking down the walls of code nerdery and arduous learning curves to allow the average joe to build some pretty cool stuff. Right up my alley. While I haven't tried any of them out yet, the idea is what I am more concerned with. This ability to remove the blinders from people and give them the chance to execute their thoughts has the potential to lead to some really interesting and useful things that hadn't existed and likely would never appear on the radar of the hip advertising and web dev people in the world. So take some of these for a spin and let me know what you think.
Pax vobiscum.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
BingTweets
Twitter meets search. Microsoft pairs up with Twitter to create BingTweets, a site designed to bring clarity to the confusion of the Twitter world. Does it help that much? Probably not but I do like the fact that Tweets are juxtaposed with information, thereby allowing you to actually understand what you are reading 140 characters about. Will it change the world? No. Will it be kind of cool for a month? Yes. Mostly I think it's nice brand movement for Bing (which in my opinion is running great spots).
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