Another cool thing I saw earlier this year which I didn't get around to linking to was DesignCanChange (via Bokardo). I think we need to have a strong move away from print. For me, I can read book-length works just as well from my laptop as I can from books. But it's all the posted shit that gets me. My bank is online. I don't need statements anymore. So stop sending them to me. Send me a signed, encrypted e-mail instead.
I did some print design work recently. Okay, perhaps that makes me a hypocrite on this front. But at the same time I'm thinking "these people [my client] seriously need to understand the Internet". I kept explaining and explaining that if you promote your event online you are going to get more people turning up, you are going to get people spreading it (blogs, upcoming, Facebook etc.). Unfortunately, they didn't listen. Oh well, I guess natural selection will play it's part and people too stupid to realise that the Internet is supplanting everything will just fail. It feels like the last ten years has been me patiently trying to explain to people that (a) the Internet exists, (b) the Internet isn't going away and (c) that means you need to get your house in order or you die. I remember my mother telling me once that "it doesn't sound like there's enough on the Web to make it worthwhile, you know, compared to Ceefax". Well, look who won that bet...
