Site Update Underway
I’m starting a restructuring project on this site today, with the goal of accomodating more content on a wider range of topics, while also making it easier to read, for the modest number of regular readers who have turned up over the past few months.
The readers I personally know of have diverse interests and technical ability. Some readers, like myself, mostly view sites through RSS feed aggregators, and rarely view the actual site layout. Many more visitors always view the site directly. Some are mostly interested in new technology businesses, others in rural development, wireless, running, or other topics that don’t overlap much. Then there are people who find something of potential interest through a search engine, who appear to be having trouble finding what they are looking for.
I’ve found I’m reluctant to post some items because I don’t want to clutter the front page with a lot of short posts, or because posting items out of time sequence on the front page sometimes feels awkward. I’ve experimented with the del.icio.us daily links postings, which make it easier for me to find my own bookmark links using Google, but which result in a lot of posts titled “links for yyyy-mm-dd”. I also find I’d like to post more detailed technology notes, mostly so I can use search engines to find things later, and perhaps help someone looking for a similar solution, but again don’t want to clog up the front page with minutia.
The general plan is to create a few mini-blog sections within this site, with separate RSS feeds, to help make each section more focused.
I’m starting with the “Running” category, because there’s not much overlap with the other categories, and I’ve been wanting to post my notes on hacking the Timex Bodylink for a while. If you’re subscribed to one of the feeds you may start to see a lot of running posts while I test this out.
If this works out, I should be able to share more information, without forcing most of you to slog through posts you’re uninterested in.
I’m thinking about making sections for the Running, Rural Development, Travel, Health, and Links categories, and creating new sections for technology implementation (i.e. programming, VOIP configuration, etc), among others. I’m probably going to discontinue the del.icio.us daily postings, and try some other solutions. I haven’t had a chance to try the del.icio.us linkrolling code, and I also had a quick demo of RawSugar today, which I’ll be trying as well.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or things you’d like to see.
In the meantime, things may break or move around for a while.
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