Monday, January 26, 2015

stars

this idea of putting lots of links on a screen. nobody does that. they'll have a few links on a page, and they hold screens in such low regard that their precious link list needs to hang off the edges of the screen completely. but, as you put more links on a screen, those links necessarily become smaller, and it becomes harder, by looking at them, to know what they are. or, that's what people think. for one thing, if you wanted to put a lot of small links on a screen, there isn't, in all the world of social media a tool that will allow you to do it. if there was, it would represent a completely new user experience.

not links, though, things. an array of things on the screen, each represented by a tiny point ... my giant museum, where i collect images from my camera and screenshots from the web ... that's a distant start... and my models of my house ... they're a little galaxy, just a point on the screen ... and my yard and lab, another point on the screen, and my models of the earth. more and more i'm seeing the power of creating not just some limited space but a truly vast and even infinite space. when you turn on the computer, you see the stars, and though each star is just a point of light, you can instantly locate any one you want ... then navigate to it ... stars and tiny links are really the same thing.