Jun 4, 2006 | Rebooted

At long last, a design that I'm quite satisfied with. It took a bout of inspiration, quite a bit of time thinking how everything would work together, and lots of cleaning up. Since I missed CSS Reboot again this year, I guess I'll make this my own "Reboot".

A fun thing that I'm getting involved in right now is working with a person in developping an English-teaching website. It's lots of work, especially in the back end and in terms of design, but I'm looking forward to making something profitable and exciting to use. There are undeniably lots of websites that teach English out online and the challenge is making one that is unique and that surpasses most others in terms of quality. There are lots of things to toy around with, including a content-based teachingmess (read: amazing tool) called Moodle which promises to be the open-source version of Blackboard. With so many things that you can get that's free and open source, it's hard to determine the benefits of a dedicated group of intelligent coders as compared to the perhaps-not-so-intelligent masses.

It all goes back to the discussion about the effectiveness of Wikis and the book "The Wisdom of Crowds". Are the masses smarter than the minority who know all that there is to know about a specific thing? Can a group of people, essentially, be more efficient and get better results in creating good software than those, say, who sit at desks furiously coding at Microsoft's headquarters? I'm wondering if in the future everything will ultimately be open-source and free.

That might be rather scary, in fact.

Also written on this day..

• 2009: Radio button UI
• 2005: Are You Generic