Many people speak about the future of web applications, but I would like to stop and comment on the present. I have been observing a curious phenomenon throughout the recent years. I have seen a backwards movement as far as the way of the social communications on the Internet are concerned. For example, I can spot similarities between Twitter and the IRC, which is still in use, but not like few years ago. The first difference that I have noticed is the transmission time. The communication by IRC is synchronous, whilst the communication on Twitter is unsynchronous.

An unsynchronous communication has some advantages. The main advantage is probably the null intrusivity. An unsynchronous method is not intrusive. We can find an analogous example on the use of phone or email. When someone phones you, you have to stop what you are doing in order to answer the call. On the other hand, if someone sends you an email you can read it whenever you like. Obviously the priority plays an important role, for example if you have something urgent to say, an unsynchronous method is not the most appropriate way.

Another advantage of an unsynchronous method is the possibility of reading (or listening, or watching) a document wherever and whenever you like. It is not possible to do this using a synchronous method.

In my opinion, this regressive trend is an intelligent movement.

Last week at Evento Blog, I heard a controversial phrase from Andreu Buenafuente. He said: “I don’t let comments on my blog because I don’t let some idiot comes to my blog and piss me off“. He said too: “The comments don’t bring something good to my posts“. I’m not agree with this last phrase (I have had great comments in this blog), but the first one makes me think. When I started this blog nearly four years ago, I started to spread out my blog to a close circle of friends. Nowadays, I receive thousands of visits per day, and many idiots leaves stupid things here. I know we musn’t feed the troll, I know it’s so much better not to listen to them, and I know too the alleged “anonymity” of Internet makes more brave the idiots. I feel sorrow when they feel safety thanks to their unknowledge about how Internet works (no, Mr Troll, Internet is not anonymous, moreover if you do nothing to hide your ass…). But I’m tired of pressing the delete button, I’ve too little time to loose deleting comments. So I’m going to take measures that I do not want to. The first one: I’m going to close the comments. Failing that, I’ll moderate them.

The second action: I will take up writing my posts in English, or at least the most of them will be written in English. Why? I’ll explain it some day.

Ya conseguí que LightPress genere la versión mobile del blog. Ahora puedes ver en tu terminal móvil una versión reducida a través de las siguientes URLs: m.alfonsojimenez.com o alfonso.mobi. El objetivo de ésto es reducir la transferencia de datos al cargar el blog, ya que debido a los precios que las mayoría de operadoras nos ofrecen hoy en día la cosa no está para tirar la casa por la ventana con cargas de imagénes y otros archivos externos (aunque la situación está cambiando). La carga apenas sobrepasa los 2,5 KB. Cabe decir que la versión actual aún está muy beta y que solamente muestra la página principal del blog. Próximamente quiero añadirle más features: formularios, filtros para permitir cargas de imágenes, mejorar la estructura, meterle bastante más caña al css, … A los curiosos decirles también que todo se liberará en un futuro, al igual que todos los plugins y features de LightPress. Y ese futuro será cuando tenga versiones finales de todo, esto es, cuando lo tenga todo más o menos decente. ¡Podéis probar en vuestro teléfono móvil ya! m.alfonsojimenez.com

PD1: La tia del móvil es mi prima, una cachonda mental xD
PD2: ¡Me cagüen la mar!