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Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by bernardlunn »

eranation wrote: post #60

Going through his portfolio, my sarcastic side trying to find something that will somehow justify for my mind why a person's writing is so good that he gets paid for it consistently. Flip through, see [0] A picture of a boy playing in a puddle with a Washtub on his head, with the caption: "The joy of being five. You've got just 365 days to capture it". Ok, now I get it. (goes to my soon to be 6 daughter and gives her…

Being a wordsmith, not a code smith, the view that words are just content to be monetized is wrong. This guy uses words to evoke emotions as novelists and poets have done for centuries and that has value.

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Post by bernardlunn »

cookiecaper wrote: post #69
eranation wrote: post #60

Going through his portfolio, my sarcastic side trying to find something that will somehow justify for my mind why a person's writing is so good that he gets paid for it consistently. Flip through, see [0] A picture of a boy playing in a puddle with a Washtub on his head, with the caption: "The joy of being five. You've got just 365 days to capture it". Ok, now I get it. (goes to my soon to be 6 daughter and gives her…

Yeah, very evocative. Being not-very-emotional, I always figured that "they grow up too fast" wouldn't hit me, but it has. There is so much more I wanted to provide my son (the oldest, age 7). I wish that I could just put his growth timeline on pause and continue to get to enjoy him, at least until I feel like I've gotten the TODO at least half-way cleared out. 7 years gone by, 7 more years and he'll be 14. Half of h…

This Cat Stevens song always brings something to the eyes.

https://youtu.be/7OqwKfgLaeA

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by bernardlunn »

bernardlunn wrote: post #72
cookiecaper wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, very evocative. Being not-very-emotional, I always figured that "they grow up too fast" wouldn't hit me, but it has. There is so much more I wanted to provide my son (the oldest, age 7). I wish that I could just put his growth timeline on pause and continue to get to enjoy him, at least until I feel like I've gotten the TODO at least half-way cleared out. 7 years gone by, 7 more years and he'll be 14. Half of h…

This Cat Stevens song always brings something to the eyes. https://youtu.be/7OqwKfgLaeA

And another great wordsmith on the same subject:

https://youtu.be/1X3PWBFdFIY

Enjoy now

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by bernardlunn »

networked wrote: post #23

If you want a general term for this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText . (The original note describing the concept: http://i.imgur.com/jOCOQGI.png )

I like the idea of stretch text to created distributed bodies of work.

Off topic but why send text to Imgur?

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by skrebbel »

smacktoward wrote: post #65
WhitneyLand wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That image is an absolutely fascinating historical artifact. He's describing (in a related paper) the essence of web sites in detail in 1965 . It's difficult to even imagine how few people were thinking of such things when they were so far removed everyday life and culture. Tim Berners-Lee I thought was much more well known for starting a revolution with the world wide web. I hate to say but the web seems a bit less…

He's actually describing the essence of something much more ambitious than the World Wide Web, if you can believe that. Ted Nelson's idea was/is called "Xanadu": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu The Xanadu vision is centered on a hypertext system, like the Web. But unlike the Web, it also includes such things as: - A mechanism for embedding live documents within other documents ("transclusion": https://en…

I favorited your comment so I can point people to it who have trouble grasping "worse is better". This is a much better example than clos vs scheme or linux vs microkernels.

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Post by dyates »

StavrosK wrote: post #49
networked wrote: post #23

If you want a general term for this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText . (The original note describing the concept: http://i.imgur.com/jOCOQGI.png )

I worked on a related implementation of this: https://skorokithakis.github.io/expounder/

This sort of expanding text is used heavily in hypertext-based interactive fiction,[1][2] but I haven't seen it used outside of that before. Nice work!

[1]: https://twinery.org/ [2]: https://texturewriter.com/

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by bernardlunn »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #38
networked wrote: post #23

If you want a general term for this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText . (The original note describing the concept: http://i.imgur.com/jOCOQGI.png )

That image is an absolutely fascinating historical artifact. He's describing (in a related paper) the essence of web sites in detail in 1965 . It's difficult to even imagine how few people were thinking of such things when they were so far removed everyday life and culture. Tim Berners-Lee I thought was much more well known for starting a revolution with the world wide web. I hate to say but the web seems a bit less…

The Xanadu site is worth reading. What a brilliant mind! The practical way to realize that vision, given the constraint of legacy content, could be graph databases.

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by muzster »

bernardlunn wrote: post #72
cookiecaper wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, very evocative. Being not-very-emotional, I always figured that "they grow up too fast" wouldn't hit me, but it has. There is so much more I wanted to provide my son (the oldest, age 7). I wish that I could just put his growth timeline on pause and continue to get to enjoy him, at least until I feel like I've gotten the TODO at least half-way cleared out. 7 years gone by, 7 more years and he'll be 14. Half of h…

This Cat Stevens song always brings something to the eyes. https://youtu.be/7OqwKfgLaeA

This is not a Cat Stevens song.

However, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam did write "Father & Son" - which brings tears to my eyes... when I think of my son and my dad.

Re: I’m a freelance copywriter

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Post by mikepk »

WhitneyLand wrote: post #38
networked wrote: post #23

If you want a general term for this sort of thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StretchText . (The original note describing the concept: http://i.imgur.com/jOCOQGI.png )

That image is an absolutely fascinating historical artifact. He's describing (in a related paper) the essence of web sites in detail in 1965 . It's difficult to even imagine how few people were thinking of such things when they were so far removed everyday life and culture. Tim Berners-Lee I thought was much more well known for starting a revolution with the world wide web. I hate to say but the web seems a bit less…

The one that really blows my mind is Vannevar Bush -- July 1945 - "As we may think" - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m... If you can look past the way he describes technologies of the day, there's an amazing amount of foresight in how access to information, its modalities and interconnectedness would become critically important.

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Post by bernardlunn »

dboreham wrote: post #39
WhitneyLand wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That image is an absolutely fascinating historical artifact. He's describing (in a related paper) the essence of web sites in detail in 1965 . It's difficult to even imagine how few people were thinking of such things when they were so far removed everyday life and culture. Tim Berners-Lee I thought was much more well known for starting a revolution with the world wide web. I hate to say but the web seems a bit less…

I'm surprised that anyone could believe it required insight. Having lived through that period, nothing about it seemed insightful or surprising at the time. The only time I remember being surprised was when I saw a UPS truck with their URL painted on the side, in 1993. I remember thinking it was a couple of years ahead of time.

I recall somebody showing me the Internet in 1992 and I dismissed him as nuts - oops!
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