State of the blog
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
To start out restating the obvious, this blog has been pretty dead for the last 6 months or so. There are a variety of reasons why that's happened, but in all honesty most of them are too long or boring to explain here - suffice it to say that there have been a lot of posts started, but none have been finished. This is not due to a lack of good material to write about. Rather, the cycle seems to be that an interesting but overly broad post idea turns into a half-written outline, which then becomes a half-written post, which then sits in the queue for months on end waiting to be finished because the effort required to fully expound on the original topic is way more than anticipated. While topic selection is important, topic focus is even more important. There's a delicate balance that needs to be struck to end up with a topic that's both interesting to read and feasible to write about in a meaningful way. What this means is that we're going to try to post more short and specific posts. The general topics of technology, usability, design, and Inkitecture news will stay the same, but hopefully the posts will become both easier to write (for us) and easier to digest (for you).
Oh, and we've also been working on some new sites. Stay tuned, we'll post more about those shortly. And this time I mean it.