Andy Chase

Be interesting or be quiet is Adam Kalsey's advice to bloggers everywhere.

It's abrupt statement... an overly sensitive person might think they were being offered a nice big cup of STFU, but it's really common sense.

I'm just now reminding myself of that... since resuming this weblog in late December I've really been racking up the posts without spending a whole lot of time planning or self-editing. I suspect that Movable Type is to blame; for me there's still a certain euphoria derived from how easy it is to add a nicely formatted web page to the site, and have links to everything else taken care of automatically. Sometimes it's tempting to add a photo or an ad hoc post just to watch the pages rebuild themselves just so... it's truly a thing of beauty.

But to what end? I think I experienced a similar giddiness when I had my own humble CMS back in 2001-2002, and many of my posts reflect it... random progress updates to myself about the nerdish project of the moment, which with the perspective of time not very interesting, and in some cases embarrassing. So what do I do with them? They're interesting to me from an autobiographical standpoint, but are they worth keeping online for hapless Google searchers to stumble across?

This site can't go on the way it has been; It's unbecoming to have an in depth article about hacking Movable Type category archives next to an entry titled I Love to Fart, no matter how interesting or entertaining I might think each one is in its own right.

The time has come to step back and take a look at what I've learned about surfing and building web pages over the last 8 years, and take the time to do something with it that is a better reflection of my personal and professional investment with this world wide web thing.