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The survey is proving to entertaining and edifying. (it's not too late to add your two cents!)
My favorite responses to "How can I improve Eleganthack?"
In any case, the most common requests were
Well, I promise you ALL of these will be addressed (hey, we're already in greymatter). I've actually hated the front page rambling quote for some time now, and want to redo it, except it seems silly since I'm about to redo everything. But the blog *will* go to the front page, and that dang quote will go. And for those who don't know I do a little newsletter called gleanings.
You may like it, if you like this blog.
Keep sending in your comments!
And by the way, Gabe is great! It's such a pleasure to work with him! Every sunday I lie awake in bed 'cause I'm so excited to work with Gabe on Monday-- it's like Christmas eve! Gabe is the Santa Claus of UX!
(see, I told you I listen to your comments...)
gabe z.
the reason i think of gabe as santa is that he's just so fucking giving. dammit. and i think of noel as the little closeted elf who wanted to be a dentist, but that's mostly because of his gap fetish.
Sorry for the blatant ad. I'm just very excited about being able to smell web pages.
Until there is smell-o-vision: Gabe says he smells like a combination of day old socks and magnolia trees.
/matt
I look forward to the gleanings mail, although it has puzzeld me for some time as to what gleanings actualy means.
As for gleanings: when I was a young girl in Iowa there were people who would walk the corn fields after the harvest pickgin up the ears of corn the harverster had left behind. Those folks were called gleaners, and the act of collecting the corn in this manner is called gleaning. I rather thought that my trolling the web looking for ears of corn--good links-- in the dirt of the web was a gleaning-like activitiy.
How to improve a site is a permanent question: it is just a condition of elated perfection no one ever truly attains.
I can say, for what my minor opinion matters, that I never read blogs very much, yet this one truly engrossed me. Normally blòogs are, let's admit it, impossible to follow. They just stream without purpose.
Now, what is the BEST feature here? perhaps the style? perhaps the colours? perhaps perhaps?
The best feature, which kept me browsing a blog for days and I still connect nearly daily is this: the author has a brain.
"hemingway needs no introduction" was written as the first line of an introduction.
What makes this blog good is not design (which is quite good) but the above avergae level of its essays.
You say: oh what a discover.
Well, yes it is. I have many faults in my life but I have one conceited "virtue": I have a natural talent to spot instantaneously intelligent contents featured thorugh a complelling writing style. Let me read for 6 hours Virginia Woolf, and I will start writing in her style, like a chamaleon of the pen.
So, that is the virtue of this site, so whatever enhances it is whatever makes it possible to locate the most meaty past posts.
A few of them are small masterpieces in their field.
An author cannot be interesting every day, no one can; even Hugo wrote bad things. Even Shakespeare has been able to write truly worthless things (though academics would horrify. Mot of the day: academies are those places where persons with a formal education learn how persons with no formal education whatsoever managed to do better things than they'll ever do).
So of course also the blog can't be compelling just every minute; yet there are so many sections and so vast that gather so many neately elaborated essays on web design, that whatever makes it possible to output them in a cumulative set of screens, is welcome.
What matters is the thought.
ciao
Alberto