Friday, April 29, 2016

about first take

I called it first take, but i was looking for TinyTake because I saw it earlier and liked it ... liked its face. I'm really happy I'm still at the beginning, here ... that my journey here brought me back here ... partly just for its own sake ... but, i also get to document it, now.

first view

I am looking at the home page for TinyTake Free Screen Capture App from Mango Apps. I am fairly determined to proceed, but I am afraid. This page is the face of a company. I find it charming and interesting. Its charm seems of a very good sort. Charming and interesting are forms of information, but there is another form of information I am looking for that is evidently present here but difficult for me to make sense of. Let me introduce myself. I am the most annoying person on the World Wide Web. This is because I take an intense interest but I am critical of everything. The list of articles in this screenshot of the bottom of the TinyTake home page looks truly helpful, but I am not willing to wade into it. Here's how a collection of articles like this should be set up: when you go to the first article, there's a next button (that stays on screen when you scroll) that takes you to the next article. This can be extended in that the next button can be a list of articles. The point, though, it to let me read all the articles, just plow through them all, without having to think about the navigation. To describe this another way, it would turn the collection of articles into a book. But this last is a dangerous observation, in a certain sense, and that should be kept in mind when interpreting this suggestion. The safer option is to not interpret the suggestion, until we can discuss it, or, that is, to just interpret literally. Stopped. This is a tester report. I am interested but prevented from proceeding immediately. It's because of my stupidity, but it's also a phenomenon in the industry, and it's a prominent phenomenon.

We need to think about the nature of reading. It's a mistake to think that we should try to always broadcast content that is maximally relevant. It might very well be essential to productivity to emphasize simply broadcasting content (here, for example, a rambling discussion of MangoApps features), voluminously, and let us read that, ignoring the question of relevance and simply absorbing the material.