Why ads?
Why is there that big ugly banner on the right?
The essential reason for putting an ad on this blog was I wanted to see how they worked, how they paid out: to gain insight into why they are everywhere on the web. How does it change a blog to have advertisements and are people really making so much money having them there?
The “Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility” http://credibility.stanford.edu/guidelines/index.html says “If possible, avoid having ads on your site.” What is your reaction to seeing ads on a site, and do you notice if they aren’t there? I tend towards elitism, elegant design, a large banner ad detracts from the appearance of both – I definitely notice ads.
And yet, I persist. This blog will have a big Google driven ad for atleast the next while. After a few months I will post again about the fiscal success of this project (expectations are low), and the emotional/aesthetic costs (the novelty protects me now). I thank you for your forbearance and wish you happy clicking!
Liminal Drift Begins
Welcome to Liminal Drift
This Blog will follow a theme of social change through exposition, art, and of course opinions! Below is included the thesis and inspiration for this page.
lim·i·nal/ˈlimənl/Adjective
- Of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process.
- Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold
drift/drift/
Verb: Be carried slowly by a current of air or water.
Noun: A continuous slow movement from one place to another.
Liminal Drift is a way to describe how the point in time when social change occurs can be moved. Through the sharing of thoughts, art, and personal experience, we affect on those around us. This effect is greatest when there is a diversity of opinion, beliefs, expressions, experience: of which our ability to share, both with those around us, and people around the world, is greater now than it has ever been.
Our greatest strength, our hardest challenge – diversity is the root of much of the change in our society. We find in it a huge potential for learning, excitement, creativity. In every art form we see inspiration coming from different cultures mixing; on every street we see people of those different cultures interacting. Unfortunately not all of the interaction is positive; intolerance continues to be a plague on our society. We also will tend to find comfort with the familiar. This is a good and necessary part of being human, however we often tend to let it invade all parts of our lives: instead of familiar things feeling good, unfamiliar things begin to feel bad. This has the force to homogenize the look and feel of the world around us. Unique expression has given way to a predictable facade that is comfortable, unemotional, implicitly easy. The sometimes uncomfortable openness to differences, emotion, beliefs – let us experience the world in a way where we may effect change and be changed
Maturity through discomfort, growth through hard work, faith through doubt, peace through acceptance, stability through diversity, new ideas through sharing – these are the essence of Liminal Drift.
Let yourself be provoked…