October 5, 2012
Relegation
This, obviously, is a blog. That's been the defining feature of this site for more than 9 years. The actual blogging has declined to the point where it barely registers, but the identity remains. The various other things hosted around here have always been satellites of the blog. Photos are blog entries. Software releases are blog entries. Video and music and talks and essays and little visual toys -- even the odd crossword -- have all always been blog entries. Pretty much everything I've put on the site -- at least for public consumption -- has been dangled off the blog like a bauble on a xmas tree.
As organising principles go, it has the virtue of simplicity, but that's about it.
Don't get me wrong, there's an awful lot to be said for simplicity. Updating a website, in general, is a bit of a drag. With adequate blogging software -- and Movable Type 3, long-forgotten dinosaur though it may be, is nothing if not adequate -- that drag is mostly eliminated. There are many factors contributing to the infrequency of posting at WT, but low-level administrative friction is not one of them.
In any case, for some fairly superficial and probably transient reasons not worth going into right now, and also because I've been meaning to for ages and ages ages, I'm starting to reorganise things just a bit.
The first sign of this is that this blog is no longer the front page of walkytalky.net. I don't expect anyone to care about this; to be honest I'll be surprised if anyone even notices. The readership of this blog is very small, and I'm not sure anyone actually visits the front page anymore, except by accident. Even so, it represents something of a milestone.
As usual, all existing content will remain in place, because I'm such a notorious conservative. Or pack rat. Whatever. Only the main index has moved sideways a half-step.
And the chances of me actually gathering all the photos, for example, of which there are an enormous number, and sorting them into some kind of coherent order, are pretty slim. But I am at least going to try to get some of the material into a more accessible shape. We'll see how that goes.
Posted by matt at October 5, 2012 4:23 PM