[carsonbaker]

This isn't about the article, but I would like to point out that New Hive is really a _fantastic_ publishing platform. There's just an immense amount of creative content on it. It reminds me of what I like to think were the glory days of the Web: you know, when people were on GeoCities crafting pages about their DIY electric car or whatever. It seems like today everyone is feeding what they ate for lunch into some reverse-chronological blogging system and calling it a post. Call me old-fashioned...

[bbx]

I haven't signed up for New Hive, I've just watched the video. I'm not sure if it suits the purpose of a blog well. Are there templates available? Otherwise, it'd be annoying to have to 'design' your page everytime you post a new page. Also, everything is positioned in absolute, which totally breaks the flow of a regular HTML page.

I'm obviously talking from a outsider's point of view, considering I haven't used it yet. I'm just wondering how it'd feel like for a regular publisher, posting content on a regular basis.

Anyway, the interface for setting up a quick design seems more suited for 'landing' pages, where the layout is almost as important as the content.

It really looks great though. I like the creative results this kind of interface yields.