Mainstream vs Outlaw
These days, I work a lot on a tablet, an iPad Pro, if you must, and I don’t care. In landscape mode, it renders as a regular browser, and during portrait mode, it renders like a telephone, anymore which is more just an electronic communication device that delivers audio, visual, digital and analog, all at the same time.
There’s a big battle brewing about WordPress vs. WP Engine, and how the latter looks like an official arm of the former. The current statistic is that WordPress software powers about four-tenths of the web. Less than half, more than a third, at the moment.
Personally, every few months, I get a bug up my butt, and swear I won’t use WordPress, desperately seeking alternatives, but the rest of the choices are too limited. WordPress is simple, robust, extensible, rock solid, able to swallow large amounts of data, and then keep it organized.
With my current arrangement, I publish once, and it can be scaled from a phone to a wide-screen TV, no further work required on my part, and the current “skin” I use is infinitely adjustable so I can pick and choose colors, elements, and whatever else, that I like. As with everything, there is a built-in WordPress “plug-in” that will probably do whatever I want it to do, when I can’t handle it with just the skin or simple code.
Makes administration easy for me.
All the horoscopes and
all the blog entries
are in one place, now.
That it is searchable just makes it better, so I can recall when I said what I said. Typos, loss of logic, unfounded fears, mocks, jibes, and japes, all there. Here. For now.
What I want is simple, easy to administer, and quick to deploy. That it all hooks to social media, and adjusts for whatever screen? Search-Engine-Optimized? All good.
I like less in the way of creation
From idea to iteration.
Mainstream vs Outlaw
That’s a long introduction to a newsletter I signed up for, an occasional folksy mailer about the creative process, how writers write, and how to be an artist.
While the meat of the missive was OK, nothing scintillating, the window-dressing, and framing was of interest to me. I still get it, and for now, I’ll still read it. However, the structure started with a headline, point, paragraph, sales link, point, headline, paragraph, sales link. Sprinkled with enchanting graphics, it was still just a sales letter.
While it was clever, in a way, the body of the text included hints that the real meat of the discussion was best handled after the sale.
Mainstream vs Outlaw
I’m, by certain definitions, an outlaw. No formal credentials. A lot of adjunct education, but nothing traditional in the main area of my focus.
Then, too, I’m self-published, self-supporting, and dependent upon no one. First and foremost, this is for me.
Previously, I’ve noted how some people learn by observation, a few learn from books, but there are always those who have to pee on the electric fence.
In a previous weblog incarnation, I used the expression “Experimental and Experiential” as a blog sub-heading, like a tag-line.
In the question of Mainstream vs Outlaw, though, this doesn’t exactly fit. Perhaps the real term should be outlier rather than outlaw.
But that is where I exist, someplace not mainstream, but not outside the law, either.
Mainstream vs Outlaw
Mainstream vs Outlaw
Digging through the archives, I found an archive of an archival photo, from a long, long time ago.
