I've Started A New Project: Awesome But Useless

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Wahey! I started a new project called: Awesome But Useless. I noticed that there were lots of cool experiments with web tech hidden away in the blogs of developers and designers. These little projects were often insightful, creative, and fun, but entirely impractical. And that's the thing I loved the most. And I thought, someone should catalogue them.

Although at first I couldn't express that succinctly. One evening, over a beer, I was relating my idea to the other tech editor at SitePoint, Louis. Who said to me "So, these things are awesome, but useless." I replied "Exactly." And he then said that if I didn't register awesomebutuseless.com, he would. Tada! A new site is born.

The important point is that the title is really a piss-take. These experiments are always clever, and although not immediately practical, they often inform design and development a few years down the line. I also wanted to highlight technology and people, so I make tags for every piece of web tech involved and the name of the designers or developer.

If you find cool shit on the web that should go on the site email: coolshit@awesomebutuseless.com.

Random outings from a chaotic mind