Even from the concept stages of building this site, I had a very clear idea about the things I wanted to do with it. I had to narrow it down you see? Because I was going for minimalism, and that meant cutting anything in excess. Besides, it was essential in deciding the “site architecture”. As it is, I am “abusing” WordPress’ category hierarchies to create “sections” like “essays”, “notions” and “scrapbook”.

So what is the “scrapbook”? Very much the same as what the word means IRL. The Internet is a constant source of information right? Web 2.0 gave birth to the idea of mashups, among other things. Mashups essentially meant sites weren’t built like monoliths anymore, but in a modular manner. Think of it like every block of text in a magazine having perforated edges, so you can tear them out easily. That’s how I see the web now.

And I thought, wouldn’t it be nice, if I could tear out the pieces I like, and post it here much like one does in a scrapbook? That’s also the disclaimer: most of the content in the scrapbook is not mine. (But don’t worry, I take every effort to attribute them at every opportunity.)

That said, it’s not stealing! Ideas are meant to be shared. The point of the internet was so that we could share things across computers. I don’t see what the difference is *where* it’s being shared.

So enjoy the stuff; don’t hate. Cheers.