SSWI — When in doubt, buff it out.

After reading Ben’s excellent post, I was left with one very disturbing realization.

Everyone, Ben included, is trying to tell me what the web is, and what it isn’t. This is profoundly misguided, and dangerous in my opinion, since it shows a profound lack of understanding of the world wide web’s genesis, life up until now, and where it is heading.

So, building on the first installment of this series, lets take a look at what, in my opinion, is the largest difference in the two fields. Execution, or the way in which the objective is achieved.

Execution: Designer

So some of you out there might be wondering why I built a web app for Habari instead of a full fledged iPhone app as did WordPress.

I had considered doing just that when I began this journey, but quickly decided against it. After some time thinking about it, I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to create what amounts to an alternate mobile admin as a native app. There is very little, if anything, to be gained from doing that. On the contrary there is much more to gain by making something like this into a well designed web app.

Looks like I got a little delete happy yesterday and deleted Jeff and Colin’s comments on this post. Sorry guys. Feel free to come back and comment again, I promise I won’t nuke them this time.

My good friend Colin posted a new Random 60 today that is actually quite profound: