Well-calculated Blabbering

I’ll first start with a large warm and fuzzy welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoy your time here. With all the time I find myself spending on the Internet, I have decided that it would be most appropriate for me to become a more active participant to the content, experiences and advantages that the web never ceases to provide its users. My motives for this effort are, at least initially, selfish; mainly, to test my own interest in the web and to see where this takes me. This a start of something I hope will turn into a great opportunity for me to not only think more closely about the web, but challenge myself and those who might read this to think about the information and design of the websites around the world. Maybe this will turn into something big, like my own company one day. Maybe I’ll be able to rub elbows with the stars or maybe get a guest writer on here (that is, if blogs even have guest writers).

While there are many media sources out there covering different aspects of the web (my home page for example, is the Technology section of the New York Times), I have noticed all coverage of the interactive industry fails to solely cover the one part of the web which is most exciting to me: the launch of a new website. With a new site, comes a new chance for the web to extend its impact. My plan for this website is to provide the readers strictly with coverage of new websites and start discussion on makes these new sites cool and clever.

I should say, I don’t really like the name of the blog. The name carries two definitions: one – a .png file is a typical file format created by web design production to prepare a file for web programming, often referred to as a “ping” file; two – a network is “pinged” when for the quality of connection with another network needs to be tested or verified. Form this, The Ping is born in hopes that I can establish a high-quality engaging interaction. The worthwhileness of this site, like many on the web today, is highly dependent on what you have to say and contribute. Maybe The Ping will turn into common language and you’ll start to hear it used as a verb in your office and on the street (probably not). I’d like to encourage all those interested in or involved in the industry: web designers, web programmers, web project managers, web account directors, anyone with web before their job title, that when your site launches, please let me know. I have no idea how many sites are launched every day but I do know and highly respect the blood and sweat that can go into making a website just right. The creation of website is filled with variables, some predictable, some not-so-much. What makes a successful website is a topic to be explored on this site, but nothing is more clear on the web than a well considered, clean approach to anew site content design.

Alright, I will stop my well-calculated blabbering and try not to be so cheesy in the future, but how can first blog posting not be cheesy?

(PS – I just realized there is a Comments / Pings section below, which I have no idea what the use of the word is here, and is purely coincidental. Looks like I have some work to do.)