What’s this site all about? Who are you?
Brentter.com was first purchased by me around 20 years ago because I wanted to have one main website that represented me, Brent. At the time I was running a collaborative concert photo site and had big ideas for other sites and services that I wanted to make. Then little by little this became a blog that was solely about the advertising industry. It was like that, with almost daily postings of ad campaign news, tv spots and industry commentary for years. Then one day, I just stopped. I didn’t want to blog anymore. At least not for a while.
Flash forward ten years and I’ve since changed my mind. With sites like twitter becoming a shell of what it once was as far as the quality of content and user-engagement not to mention even google searches are filled with 90% bot/AI created content, I wanted to go back to the old ways of the internet. Back when you’d write micro-blogs or share things without thinking about how you’re going to monotize it. You’d share your latest short story without worrying about metrics or keyword clustering. You shared content just to put it out there. Digital gardens were everywhere. At one point, you could tell how popular a website was based on what web-ring it was a member of. I can remember spending far too much of my time just trying to find the “right” song for my myspace page or new designs I could implement with blinking html tags or flame gifs. Why? Because it was fun.
Although I don’t plan on using any ancient HTML tags or have a mp3 auto-play on arrival, I do hope to make this domain back into a haven of quality content. From bookmarks, code snippets, articles and well, anything else I feel like sharing, this is where you will be able to find it.
Welcome to my digital garden, it’s been a long time since it’s been online, but I hope you find something interesting while you’re here.
Cheers,
~Brent