Celebrating Static Pages
There is nothing wrong with creating a plain text, static, non-MySQL webpage that serves as a personal online portal for identification and being.
Information does not need to move and wiggle and have comments in order to be important as the ARClog blog argues:
Arguably, blogs appear to have eclipsed what was once the domain of the published journal article. While I still believe in the viability of the published article as a communication vehicle and as a demonstration of one’s ability to succeed in the venue of traditional disciplinary publishing, for many academic librarians - particularly those new to the profession - that may no longer be the case. And if blogs were ever to replace scholarly journal articles as the gold standard for those on the tenure track, published journal articles would likely languish even more.The power of the world is in the living expression of thoughts and in the association of meanings -- and the frame around those ideas must never matter.
A cave painting is just as valuable as a hieroglyph as is a crayon drawing as is a printed page in a magazine as is a personal web page that has been indexed by the search spiders, but not updated, for the last five years.
Celebrate the static page by recognizing the value in the reverence for the creation of the human word in any form.
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Putting it online in any form makes it long lasting. That's the point of doing stuff in public, right? To have it archived by others as valuable?
Yes, I think that is the reason for putting out public thoughts. You want feedback and wondering from others. If they choose to save what you say then you have donated to the larger mission of preserving human capital in sharing the knowledge and truth of what you know.
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