I have just finished an externally imposed hiatus from this blog. Somehow, my WordPress installation was corrupted while upgrading to the latest version. The net result is that I have been forced to screw around with the Htaccess file, the database, reinstalling WordPress, and looking through as much code as I could find on my site… The good news and the obvious news is that I have succeeded in getting this blog back up (self evident alert!).
Now that I am getting things back in order, I can see that some of the changes I have been creating in this blog in the last month have worked well enough so that I will start to cut down the amount of online curation I have been presenting over the last several months. I find that having a Twitter feed is a much more efficient way to present this sort of ‘found information’. As a result, check out the Twitter widget I have on the on the blog (and if you really are bored, consider following my Twitter account!).
I like the idea of online curation, and have been mulling over what this may turn into over some time. I also have been considering that this simple presentation of found information. Ideas related to intellectual property on the internet are pretty diverse already, and the growth of this sort of ‘journalism’ may well change the way we all deal with IP.
I find this interesting, but not to the point where I want to continue with my own personal curation site…I have done enough, and the ‘near death’ experience this blog had a few days ago forced me to consider what I want to do with this blog. And curation was not anywhere near the top of the list.
I have some ideas about creating my own content related to things not on the internet. I have some projects that may be of value for others involved in home electronics experimenting, music production, and writing code. I will be slowly weaning this blog from so much of the ‘interesting link’ sorts of posts, and start to present some of my own projects for you to consider.
A couple years ago, on one of my first few posts on this log, I had a post labeled ‘the 95 theses’, the actual content of the post is not too important (at least to this post), but I feel like I may have just written a few more entries into this list…
I have this tendency, in the back of my grumpy little mind, that the blog I created last year with your mentoring would someday deliver content. I still hold on to that idea, though work from three different jobs, a still persistent itch to write and sleep have all but obliterated the actual content from being delivered. In the meantime, Kindle delivered the FIRE and Apple is ramping up the idea of publishing faster and easier on their platform, so I end up continuing to be a student! I guess it's just time to plant a flag. But I feel your pain at having to rebuild the blog. I have to do it again myself. Now...where did I put that time?
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