I find that, if a post is too long, people get bored and leave your site. I won’t give a specific word count, but bear in mind that web surfers have short attention spans: The average visitor stays on any one website for 30 seconds. It’s your job to suck them in, enticing them to […]
Author: Illarterate
Tips for organising your blog
Don’t be a sloppy blogger. You can be as haphazard as you like behind the scenes, but where the post is concerned you want to come across as professional and, above all, understandable. I know it’s tedious, but revise your post a couple of times and proofread everything a little while after you’ve written it […]
Tips for bloggers with writer’s block
There will come a time when you feel you have writer’s block, when you feel like everything you write is rubbish and nothing is working for you. I find the best posts happen when you are trying not to be funny, trying not to be too informative. Just write about what you know, what you […]
Getting your wiki off the ground
So you’ve just created your wiki and want to know what to do next. Well, wikis are all about collaboration and online social interaction, so users are obviously going to be your priority. First, though, you want to create an overall structure for your wiki, both conceptually and visually. The About Page For the conceptual […]
Analogue Propaganda: Teletext is Dead (Mk2)
A film taking an (overly) dramatic look at what might happen leading up to the moment analogue is switched off. See also: Teletext is Dead: Nick McCabe mix
Analogue Propaganda: Analogue Propaganda [Video]
A message from the anti-digital organisation. The titular video heading the Analogue Propaganda project, which explores non-analogue glitching and questions whether digital television really does provide a better viewing experience. The speech was grabbed from this vid on YouTube. Visuals captured on a glitched up Freeview box. Sound is a mix of various glitch noises.
Analogue Propaganda: Teletext is still dying
A mashup in the same vein as Teletext is Dead and something of a transition between that video and the eventual outcome.
Did you see that thing? Promo poster
I was asked to curate a video showing. Here’s a promotional poster for the event, created entirely in HTML: And here’s someone else’s interpretation.
