[Reader-list] unblog the web

[fmadre at free.fr]

May I ask why you suggest a blog ?
this ancient form is not specially well suited for posting pictures
perhaps we could turn people to doing websites
there are a number of providers that offer webspace for free, most of  
them with ads and some not. I suggest brinkster
http://www.brinkster.com/
I have researched ~20 of those for my next piece and brinkster is  
unobtrusive (which is not what I was looking for)
also you could use live spaces or googlepages
http://spaces.live.com/
http://www.googlepages.com
googlepages doesn't have ads, I think they assume eveybody is going to  
add theirs...

if you are concerned with hotlinking there is tripod
http://www.tripod.lycos.com/
they have that really ugly system in place which replaces your  
hotlinked image with thei logo and a message, brrrr

now if you want to have the full sponsored web experience you should  
go for fortunecity or geocities
they produce really scary sites

most of those will have aids to produce the html, most of them fairly ok
then you could learn html or just use some tool to do it and upload  
your files, it's very easy

of course a top solution would be that sarai opens hosting for its  
researchers with photo albums, etc, but that is a political choice  
about location as well as property

the web should be preserved in its diversity
there are enough blogs already

f.


> Hi Madhura
>
> The problem with posting images on the list is that there is a very
> high possibility of virus getting through the administering of the
> list as well - we must dismiss at least 50 spam/virus messages a day...
>
> But i agree that those images should be seen
>
> Can i suggest that you start a blog? Places like blogspot make it  very
> easy and if you go to http://freetemplates.blogspot.com/ you can  also
> get a different template from the usual one.
>
> Once you have uploaded images on to that, members of the reader-list
> could visit the blog and see the images.
>
> There are many on the list who keep blogspot blogs - i'm sure that
> they can give more advice!
>
> best
> M
>
> Monica Narula
> Raqs Media Collective
> Sarai-CSDS
> 29 Rajpur Road
> Delhi 110 054
> www.raqsmediacollective.net
> www.sarai.net
>
>