Content Update!

A. I've moved over most of the MySpace Posts. There's close to one hundred posts on this site now, and by and large the bulk of them are from 2005-2006.

B. Later, I plan to implement (for my benefit) some sort of Task Widget that'll let me keep track of what I'd like to do with this site and visually show me how much (or little) of that I've actually accomplished. I've been gung-ho for the past week or so on productivity, but the never-ending step one for anything has been to determine how much effort is going to go into getting from Point A to Point D.

C. A site re-design will be necessary, soon. Hopefully The M&M's will be interested in lending me a hand with this. I've got a good grasp on Phase 1 (a self-updating blog site), but the next step is going to be to step up content, sectionalize and to establish an interface for maneuvering between the different sections. I've been hitting a lot of the various tech blogs out there, and I realize how easy it is for content to get buried. It's all well and good to keep newer posts on top and expect that anyone who cares to follow what's going on will RSS it up, but I've also been shocked at the lack of customization and segmentation for some of these. It only seems perfectly natural to me that people would like to fine-tune their information intake. And if they're new to your site--they may very well be interested in past posts that are buried under piles of information they're not interested in.

Not trying to do anything too crazy or ambitious here, yet. This is by and large a tool for me to try and stay organized right now--and to kill time. I loathe time. If this springs into a multi-user operation--that would be excellent. Right now my top goal involves it being a multi-single-user operation--wasteful blogs, written projects and music, from one source: this guy.

At odds: I'd like to make sure that each set of posts can follow a unique visual aesthetic that keeps them herded into neat packs--IE if the site were to get a section for music posts, it would be a removed set of pages from the main site. But, I also have seen sites where there are multiple worthwhile sections that are so far removed frome each other that they get completely overlooked. An example: asofterworld.com has the web'comic' and the Overqualified section. Each are worthwhile and stand on their own, but they also stay so far apart from one another that there's never a reason (or an opportunity) to jump from one to the next. Explosm does this, too--Cyanide & Happiness is so far removed from the rest of the site that it might as well be the only thing they put up.

I think there's an advertising mindset here, about reiteration and the constant reaffirmation of established content. Also: I like rambling. It's cool--in the HWaC Site Upheaval of 2010 this will be one of the first things to go.