Blogger’s new dynamic views transforms the organization of blog posts. Blogs usually have scrolling posts with web-paged post groups. If that description seems complicated, you probably have taken for granted the conventional form of a blog. Blogger dynamic views dissolves that convention and reshapes a blog into a flipcard checkerboard and four other views (change the view via the dropdown tab on the top right). Each different view differs in the arrangement of blog posts and in the flow from one post to another post.
Each Blogger dynamic view replaces the author’s customized presentation. That replacement concerns authors. One direction for dynamic views would be to give authors more control over the layout of each dynamic view. But that’s probably not the direction in which dynamic views points. With Blogger dynamic views, Google is pushing forward users’ options for blogs’ bindings.
What makes a book is its binding. Digital content has much greater possibilities for bindings than those for books. For different users and in different circumstances, different bindings can be more useful and more enjoyable. Authors should embrace those possibilities.
If you find the text of purplemotes tedious and frustrating, you are welcomed to view just its photos — here’s an apparently ad hoc assortment and here’s the collection of flowers.
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The photo above shows Justin Michael Finnegan‘s book sculpture entitled Frustration (2009). Finnegan is dyslexic. His work was on display at the Smithsonian in the exhibit, Revealing Culture.