Zen and the art of web-presence

Jasinski, I was surprised to find, no longer updates his killer flash-website. He has instead moved shop to a blogspot blog.

This is really interesting to me. Anybody who's anybody in this Brave New (Illustration) World has a website, so that when you Google people like "Tim Biskup" and "S. Britt" you will be able to figure out who they are, what they do, and what they're up to. All the advice I've read anywhere says You Must Have A Website. A Proper Website. Not A Myspace Page* But A Right And Proper Mushtache And Hair-Slicked-Back With A Monocle Website If You Are At All Serious About This.

*Which is a bit of a no-brainer since myspace is a bit sophomoric. It would be like posting your big CEO plans on a livejournal. It's strange that certain web-places themselves garner a certain age depending on the patrons, but there we are. I guess that happens with real-world establishments too.

I can't afford to have my own website, and really at this point I am too lazy to commandeer webspace from my techie friends and build something anyway. Instead I've been using a blog, (which is now here,) assuming that once I had enough stuff there I would make a static "portfolio" page and give that out to prospective clients. This was my lame fix-it. This was me making do with what I had. So I was surprised to learn that one of my super-star idols had done this too.

So will this be a new trend? I hardly think everyone will be keen to drop their professionalism and let design firms root around in their sketchbooks so nakedly. But maybe. Maybe this is the New Way.

Edit: also. I would like this.