Nownownow Posted June 17, 2019 by Matthias Ott 17 Webmentions #now #websites Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts. I enjoy the new perspectives they provide, especially interviews. Debbie Millman’s legendary design matters podcast, for example, is only one of many great shows where the host manages to stimulate a conversation that yields the most amazing stories and opinions. Another such conversation is the one I listened to last weekend: Tim Ferriss talks to Derek Sivers about his career as a professional musician, circus clown, speaker, entrepreneur, and many more interesting things. A wonderful conversation that I highly encourage you to listen to. At one point, Derek mentions a project he has been working on and I really love the idea behind it, so I thought I’d share it with you: Many personal websites, including this one here, have an “about” page. It’s a page that tells you something about the background of a person or about the services provided. But what this page often doesn’t answer – and neither do Twitter or Facebook pages – is what this person really is up to at the moment. A page that answers questions like: What are you focused on at this point in your life? What have you just started working on that excites you like nothing else? Did you just move to a new town? Did you start a new career as a Jengascript wrangler? To answer all those questions, Derek suggests to create a “now page”. A page that tells visitors of your site “what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.” If you want to get an idea of how such a page can look like, go to nownownow.com, a directory Derek has created. In about four years, he has collected almost 2000 examples of personal sites with a /now page. And here is my own new “now page”. ~ 17 Webmentions Gordon Montgomery ????;????; Nownownow, by @m_ott matthiasott.com/notes/nownownow Joe Kotlan I like this idea of a NOW page on my site. matthiasott.com/notes/nownownow Might try to implement this over on my Journal page. Thanks for the inspiration @m_ott riz I could totally get behind this #Nownownow matthiasott.com/notes/nownownow Matthias Nownownow matthiasott.com/notes/nownownow Huxley Digital Would you consider adding a 'now' page to your website, or as a section in your 'about' page? Interesting thoughts here: buff.ly/2IjgKzI @m_ott Fullstack Developer Nownownow #Frontend #devTips #Devlife #Design #Css #HTML matthiasott.com/notes/nownownow Philippe Beck Nownownow matthiasott.com/notes/nownowno… dailydevlinks. Nownownow: matthiasott.com/notes/nownowno… #html #css #javascript #webdev #dailydevlinks Philippe Beck Nownownow matthiasott.com/notes/nownowno… freshmade Nownownow matthiasott.com/notes/nownowno… via @chriscoyier Max Böck interesting idea: @m_ott on the concept of a "now" page. > A page that tells visitors of your site “what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.” 1 Repost 0 avatar.jpgarkhi reposted: “” 29 June 2019 5 Likes Mattia Compagnucci @thomas@social.tzi.fr Charles Bauer f_ranft Dan Burzo ⓘ Webmentions are a way to notify other websites when you link to them, and to receive notifications when others link to you. Learn more about Webmentions. Have you published a response to this? Send me a webmention by letting me know the URL. Ping! More Notes Ad Infinitum Lazy and Prompt Buckle Up At Machine Speed
Joe Kotlan I like this idea of a NOW page on my site. matthiasott.com/notes/nownownow Might try to implement this over on my Journal page. Thanks for the inspiration @m_ott
Huxley Digital Would you consider adding a 'now' page to your website, or as a section in your 'about' page? Interesting thoughts here: buff.ly/2IjgKzI @m_ott
Fullstack Developer Nownownow #Frontend #devTips #Devlife #Design #Css #HTML matthiasott.com/notes/nownownow
dailydevlinks. Nownownow: matthiasott.com/notes/nownowno… #html #css #javascript #webdev #dailydevlinks
Max Böck interesting idea: @m_ott on the concept of a "now" page. > A page that tells visitors of your site “what you’d tell a friend you hadn’t seen in a year.”
