New Year Livery Upgrade for Syntagma Media
Well, the new livery for SynMed 2006 is in place across the network. Just the fresh ad placements to do.
Soon you’ll be finding adverts in places you didn’t know existed. Some will jump out of your screen and plaster themselves indelibly on your walls. (I’m joking, but this may be possible soon the way we’re going).
Have a flip through the rest of SynMed and see if you like the new “look”. It’s been created by our tectonic design wizard, Hector, who specializes in plastering paper on walls. I particularly like Google Future and Tertiary Blogging.
Will we be invited to join 9rules? Personally, I find it difficult to obey one rule, let alone nine. What are they playing at?
I see Gordon Mclean has joined them. That spells trouble with the clans.
And finally, a very happy and prosperous 2006 to all our uber-readers.
Do you get a design award for this?
Matt
By Matt on December 31st, 2005 at 1:25 am
We shan’t award ourselves a design award, Matt, if that’s what you mean?
By John on December 31st, 2005 at 11:34 am
FYI, that’s a different Matt. LOL
I looked at that comment and thought, “man, I don’t remember asking that”. Which would of course be because I didn’t. THat other Matt did.
By Matt on December 31st, 2005 at 2:07 pm
Yep, I know the difference, Matt (VideoCards). The other Matt is the one I interviewed here a short while ago. We have Matts all over the place here.
By John on December 31st, 2005 at 2:10 pm
John, I’m pretty sure you are free to apply to join 9rules whenever they next open up submissions.
Not sure what you are driving at with your comments though, maybe you can explain why you (seem to) dislike them? Or am I reading you wrong? Just curious.
I have my reasons for signing up, as I explained on my site a while back but as ever these things fit for some people but not for others.
By Gordon on January 2nd, 2006 at 2:10 am
No, it’s not my cup of tea, Gordon. I didn’t set up a blog network just to join another, even if it is a “community” rather than a network.
I think design is important, but not as important as content. As a writer, the latter is my primary concern. Dave Winer managed for years with no design at all, and he’s got more than 7000 subscribers in Bloglines alone.
However, we needed a spruce up here, so now we can forget how snazzy we look and concentrate on the writing.
BTW I don’t know if 9rules will survive much longer. They seem to be expanding into other networks and not having much luck.
By John on January 2nd, 2006 at 9:33 am
Dave Winer is also the creator of RSS. I call that a “big difference”.
By Mike Rundle on January 2nd, 2006 at 3:24 pm
You’re right, Mike, his audience is not concerned with ornamentation. But, as you can see, we’ve smartened the place up here, though we’re still not as design-oriented as 9rules.
By John on January 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 pm
I’d be very surprised if 9rules suddenly disappeared John. And I’m not sure what you mean by ‘expanding into other networks’.
As for the ‘design vs content’ discussion, the two are linked - like it or not - bad design doesn’t mean good writing, just as good design doesn’t mean bad writing. And all the other combinations. If you don’t have good content people won’t come back, no matter the design.
Anyway, I guess a little friction between ‘networks’ (communities, whatever) is healthy for you though so I’m not gonna bite. I wish you all the best with your sites over the coming year.
By Gordon on January 5th, 2006 at 8:52 am
Gordon, I meant Fine Fools and one or two others that Scrivs seems to be involved with. When Fine Fools appeared to falter (Srivs apologized for not spending enough time on it), and 9rules site was taken off air for a couple of days, tongues wagged … as they do. I see they’ve now relaunched with a new category system, which looks promising.
By John on January 5th, 2006 at 9:24 am