Where geek meets Gaugin

by Chris Gulker 

Content, creativity and computer code 

Random Access is, in some sense, the meeting of two worlds.

This is true of many Web pages: content meets technology in a sometimes useful way.

www.gulker.com is the meeting of geek and art (well, a creative bent, anyway). On this site, there are
portfolios of photographs, and CGI code. There is a personal journal, served from an object database.
Creative content and programming go hand in hand.

And, not to put too fine a point on it, now comes this page, the first to be written and filed using the
Frontier Website authoring tools (see http://www.scripting.com/frontier/webscripting.html for the
details).

If you've perused Random Access, you'll now it hasn't updated in a couple months (I won't bore you
with the details of my life lately), but one of the problems has been time. Managing the site takes time,
and time can be hard to come by.

Enter technology... good technology. Technology that's like the telephone: easy to use, intuitive and
reliable - the Frontier tools are a step in that direction. 

So now I can write and file the story automatically - it formats itself, plugs itself into the right place on
the Web site, and soon will update the home page as well. I type and Frontier publishes - sort of like the
old days of Royal typewriters in newsrooms, where copy messengers and backshop folk took care of all
the hard stuff.

Geeks meet Gaugin? In fact, many of the lofts South of Market in San Francisco, and in New York's
Silicon Alley are modern-day ateliers where artists and codewriters labor side-by-side, creating future
media.

So here we go... one step further into a future where everybody can be a publisher.