dcinput changes format
Lately I’ve been finding it hard to find time to put fingers to keyboard and turn out a consistent amount of content on the blog. It can be partially attributed to a massively hectic work schedule, the documentary making course I’m attending and the need to fill every last minute of my day nerding away for my RHCT course and exam at the end of the month.
However I’ve realised that it might also be the way that I’m bloging. Let me explain.
The default title-then-post format of the Wordpress blog is starting to get me down. It just doesn’t fit in right to life when you’re busy with other stuff all the time. You see this format kind of forces you to write about 1 theme per post…essay style. The reality is that its just too time consuming. The other thing is that a lot of the time I don’t want to write an essay. Often I just want to link to a whole bunch of different articles that I’ve come across throughout the day with really short comments. Other times though, when I’ve got more time, I like to spend some time researching a piece and write about it in depth.
So I’ve decided to try a slightly new format. Starting tomorrow there will be two types of posts:
- “dcinput daily” posts - One each day (hopefully) which will grow throughout the day with small posts to interesting things I come accross (a la Scripting News)
- Longer essay type posts - whenever I have time to go into something in a little more depth.
I’m hoping to figure out how to get the OPML Editor to work with Wordpress. I’m pretty sure I remember reading that someone figured it out. Anyways let me know what you think.
March 13th, 2006 at 11:17 am
The title of your posts it the 1 small piece of information that you can send to your readers without them having to read the full post (via RSS/live bookmarks). If your just going to use the days date, it kinda defeats the purpose of RSS + posts are already dated. Date titles are boring, plus there’s a rule somewhere that states that date titles are reserved only for those people who need to keep track of the passage of time. eg persons in solitary or those marooned on a desert island.
March 13th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Sorry if that sounds snarkey
March 14th, 2006 at 12:26 am
Keeping track of the passage of time is actually one of the things I want to do more effectively. The old way I was blogging was far to intermitant. In a couple of years, if I look backat my posts, I wouldn’t really get a good idea of what was going on in my life at the time.
The desert Island comment is a fair comment. I’ve been distant letely. I’m sorry. I have my reasons (believe me its nothing you’ve done).
March 13th, 2007 at 12:06 am
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