2022-11-28
- idea of digital art project to make website an ever shifting environment like the real world, inspired by how the clouds are different each time you see them and everything changes day to day while websites are always static. how can I inject some of that dynamicity into technology?
- requirements
- needs to feel fresh and new each time a user comes on
- needs to reflect some part of me since it is my website (like coming into my house, you can see physical symbols of what i have been doing)
- needs to be fun and playful and imaginative
- technical musings
- could base it off of journal data (either qualitative or quantitative), have CRON job on hosting service to process remote data and put it into a consumable form
- client consumes the data and renders it in a dynamic visualization
- probably need to add some client-side randomness that injects dynamcity that isn’t based on the data (either current epoch or some random seed) can tune this as desired
- should change every 30 seconds?
- #writing/ideas everyone’s home on the internet, drawing on the wreck it ralph metaphor, everyone’s website is like their visitor room for public
- #questions what should that room reflect? how is it different from inviting someone into your house since this isn’t by explicit invitation anymore,
- scatterings of books, magazines, leftover boxes, groceries, snacks, appliances, etc.
- #questions can you enable different “rooms” as part of you? Currently that is done by hyperlinking to different centralized platforms but what if you could embrace a decentralized style and have everything as part of you? Problem is inbound is always intentional but maybe thats fine?
- #scenarios what if the web evolved such that instead of embracing centralized platforms, the successful startups were the ones that went an embed/API first approach by optimizing for the experience of getting people to keep visiting the websites they visit now but use the product on that website (i.e. instead of facebook being a separate site, FB is plugin that integrates on your site)
- problem is lack of inbound i guess without your own platform, relies on external usage
- but plaid manages this because it is an essential service…