Today I finally got a chance to visit the fabulous Seattle Public Library by Rem Koolhaas | OMA. For some personal photo impressions see 'Inspiration from Colors and Edges'.

Without opening a single book I felt inspired, enlightened and eager to push any limit that comes on my (designing webpresences) path. It's by non-conforming and going to extremes that this building is exceeding it's goals.

Question is what 'rules' are we sticking to that keep our website in the middle of the virtual road.

Yesterday I added a digital artwork to my corporate site (see www.virvie.com under 'Destination'  and scroll down a little) and actually found it a little hard to do. I see it as decoration of my virtual headquarters, but positioning the piece wasn't all that obvious.
The issue, in comparison, is not the color on the walls or the decorative ornaments on the building, but rather the paintings or sculptures that are added later.
So it's not the 'interior decoration', because that is realized by visual design (determining the colour of the 'curtains and the carpet') and interaction design (positioning the 'table and chairs' so you can sit and walk around comfortably). But, then, what is it? And is it something that can and should be designed for (similar to planning high and wide walls for large paintings in the entrance halls of office buildings)?

This soundtrack will be added to the already beautiful (imho) VIRVIE animation. It's custom developed. Let me know what you think.

It might by a tricky question in the open source era, but is it reasonable to register website concepts? In the TV and movie business they use file-reg.com to register show formats in order to protect and trade them. In case of a TV formats they depict the conception process, the show name, a set sequence of events within the show etc.

In the website business a lot of ideas get 'borrowed', and I wonder if this (still) is the favourable situation...

When I finally got round to taking a closer look at Google Wave, I was very pleased with the potential that is created by rethinking a common thing like e-mail. I was struck though by the following comment in the presentation (at 11m48s): ".. with Google Wave you spend 100% of your time either reading or writing". Because messages are instantly posted by the system you no longer have to wait for the other person to finish, which is good, but this opposite doesn't sound quite right either. I don't mind being 100% online, and I can't wait to exploit the potential of Google Wave (and a definite farewell to MS Office?), but I would like to see some kind of pleasurable 'idle'-mode built in. Is it possible to have an in-between state of reflection next to reading an writing online?

I like to incorporate non-functional elements to my webpresence concepts. And by non-functional I mean functionality (not just graphical design) that has no immediate purpose, other than to inspire or provide diversion. I see it like art on a wall and therefore essential. There is a lot of digital art out there already, but hardly ever part of a mainstream (corporate) website. Do you feel there is or should be room for that?

When building a brand or identity online, a proper domain name is very important. But how about your username on the big networks?
Go to @namechk (www.namechk.com) and see if you start to feel uncomfortable when the indicators turn red.
How important is it to have a consistent/recognizable username? (See also: "Creating a respectable online identity")

Apart from being an interesting proof of payment for postal services, the physical stamp had the unique capability of conveying an additional message with it. In many countries there's a rich history of stamp designs and many (government) causes that got attention through it. This now seems to get lost. Is there, or will there be an online equivalent?

What in your opinion is the real world, and what the virtual and is it consistent with offline and online? Specifically, is there a difference between your online identity on e.g. Twitter and LinkedIn and your identity/avatar in SecondLife or Habbo?