Explaining Myself.
What's the Point?
This is the personal blogging and WWW repository platform for myself, David E. Pinero, a dreamer currently living in Buffalo. I have quite a few projects and online personas devoted to specific topics of interest and in addition to personal blogging, I use this single platform to consolidate most of that activity here, also.
The reason I maintain ths web space as a seemingly lackluster and mundane guy with no real accomplishments to speak of, is to openly challenge the commercial evolution of the web and to inspire others to keep doing the same.
I prefer the mechanical and editorial freedom of posting what I want, and how. By now, most people are content to express themselves in social media -- something I also do -- but social media channels do not equal digital liberty, which is something I take seriously.
I love bullet lists and if I had to bullet the outcomes of my example that I would like to see, they would rack up something like this:
- Ad-free blogs and personal websites would once again flourish and begin inter-linking with each other as they once did (or if I'm wrong about them ever being ad-free, as they can)
- Blogs and personal websites would comfortably exist without having to exist on mobile devices - hence my advocacy of the desktop web concept
The World Wide Web Was Taken Away
One trigger for how I feel and why I develop these arguments is that I firmly believe the great human-to-human web did not "accidentally" die in some population preference for feeds and Facebook-like social media platforms. Rather, it was eclipsed by a messy and monstrous commercialized dynamic that pretends to reflect the "preference of the people" when in fact it promotes a souless "flow of the people" who are unaware of the sacrifice.
I do not believe people preferred to have the great publishing equalizer ripped from them to be gradually supplanted by Big Tech agendas that seek to monetize and control basic human attention. And most in particular while killing off any vestige of the original web in the process.
Personal websites and blogs are the original social media, which are bound by hyperlinks that send web visitors to new design expressions and the free-form perspectives of their authors. They are not hard for people to establish but it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to remember so.
I hope that this blog will in some small way remind all who visit and perhaps inspire them to do the same.
