You might’ve heard of the Internet Phone Book, a collection of poetic, interesting, personal websites, and essays about websites, collected by Kristopher and Elliott. We chatted about how the phonebook was made, and about why they’re optimistic about the web that’s made by real people and artists.
TLDR: Make a website, it’ll save your soul.
Because Kinopio sponsored the first printing of the phone book, I was sent three extra copies. I wasn’t sure what to do with them though. When I asked what I should do on social media, there was no shortage of people asking me to mail them a copy. But the more I thought about it, the more I felt like I should share the book with people who aren’t already part of ‘the scene’.
Right now, I’m living in Charlotte, NC. Beautiful weather, but not a place you’ll find many indie web enthusiasts. So I decided to drop them off in little libraries around town in the hopes that maybe someone new will have their eyes opened to the world of websites outside corporate control.
Name Info P Piri The proprietor of this website, and your host K Kristoffer Tjalve Author, artist, organizer of naive yearly E Elliott Cost Author, artist, sees the html.energy all around us
About the Poetic Web
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You describe the book as a directory for exploring the vast “poetic web”, not the “indie web”, nor the “blogging web”. Why the term poetic web?
Personally, I’m not sure that I’m part of the ‘poetic’ web. I don’t write poetry, but I do want the things I make to be beautiful in a way.
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