The real point of the web isn’t ebizniz, ibizniz or dot commerce. It was set up for sharing information. If i have something to say, i can publish it on the web, either here or on another page, and suddenly i’m more then just another unemployed geek wannabe, i’m a writer and a publisher. Anyone can do, and there are enough places that provide free web sites so that even an impoverished inner city school kid can have her own page. at least for now. the web can also provide through add on programs, discussion forums and group written sites. With sufficiently feature laden (ridden?) add ons, the web can become an interactive magazine or novel. It makes everyone their own movie critic and op ed page. Through RSS, Really Simple Syndication, and personal bloging tools, you can “syndicate� your web site so others get the first couple lines of a newly updated page, and a link to the full article. It makes everyone a newspaper person, and makes it that much easier for future historians to find primary sources.
To date i’ve chosen not to do this, for fear of swamping the server (HA!) and for limited audience. i haven’t thought the page warranted a bigger audience. Who other then my friends care about my sinuses and lack of heat? i originally thought of trying to add real fiction here, i hinted at it in the “about� page, but real writing takes real time. , and i gotta work. I was also thinking of adding a user message board, completely separate from the comments pages. My two experiments with that failed. But the comments page seemed to take on a life of it’s own while i was doing the chicken with it’s head cut off dance last week. Which leads us to the point of this digression. I’m not about to give up pontificating about technology, and messing about with digital content management systems, but i’m going to remove as much of that as possible to the opinion page. And I’m going to be setting up RSS for that, essentially going live in front of the whole damn world. Which means i’m going to be spending more time on the opinions page then here, at least initially. Here i’m going to be adding more art, rearranging the links, and possibly opening up a message board.
And now back to our blog already in progress…it’s amazing to me how much you miss little things more then big things. i lost a lot of stuff in the great lockout, and i’m missing the little things like pouches and bags and little screw drivers rather then the 300mm apochromatic lens and nikon f2 i had just completely rebuilt from parts (or my f, and it’s 2 lenses, which had just been rebuilt, and shutter tested.) i’m missing the pile of hose clamps, d-rings, bungie cords, oversized keyrings and carabineers on the floor more then the quad boot pentium box i was working on. i miss the cds more then the pile of dead and half dead stereos. mostly i miss the pouch of mini and micro pliers and the bag of craftsman tools, more so then my 30 year old dremel and ten year old black and decker. i spent all day yesterday reaching for the things that werent’t there, from pictures and prints to cassettes and tools. just know i went to fix my bag, and realizd the rings and clips weren’t here. so now i have to go up to uncle dan’s and buy some. or garbage pick something else…note that nowhere here do i marvel at the foresite i had to precache so much stuff at don’s and elsewhere, or have so much of my tools and geekly acceseries on me. that’s because it wasn’t forward planning, it was dumb luck and laziness. today i’m going to some planning about what i should cache elsewhere, and where that should be.
