While I was undergoing my RSS feeding frenzy a few days ago, I stumbled across a post – god if I remember where, wasn’t on anything I normally read – with tips about “how to get me to read your blog” more often. I snickered at this, and read, and there was one that read to the effect of:
Now, for some reason this has stuck with me, all the way into NYC. Even more strangely, I keep looking at Anil Dash’s page and Jason Kottke’s with a quirked brow. When I started my web page on csoft, I too had a “remaindered links” section; it was called the Linkpad, and I had Javascript set up for inputting links back then much like I currently have a Javascript set up to facilitate blogging.
So I sat, and I stewed, and I came to the realization that yes, I’d kind of like this to be a little more focused. The whole thing has seemed rather unorganized, and this is because the more personal posts get mixed in with the random links to things I find funny/interesting/etc, so it dilutes my thoughts.
So, with that in mind, and some sidebar rearrangement, I now have a remaindered links blog. It’s a work in progress, it’s fairly empty for now (the links there have mostly been posted to my blog already, so there’s no use in hoping for anything new as I write this), but hopefully it’ll go back to what the Linkpad was – my way of sharing links without having to “publish” something each time.
Granted, this means that if I want the truly personal section to stay thriving, I need to wrote considerably more about my personal life. That, or observations on the world.
I think I can swing that.
Edit: Shedding dead weight here; topic icons are gone for being needlessly pointless, and the Japanese fashion thing is gone as it no longer interests me.