Blogging and Controlled Vocabulary

02/07/2014 1 Comment

So I am considering a blog redesign over on Comparative Geeks. I did a redesign on this blog, and changed the home page to be more like a website than a blog front-page. In the end, I think that makes this more like my portfolio or personal site than just a personal blog, or a re-purposed blog from school. Which to be fair, it was. So I went through each individual post, added the “more” function to most, moved my categories into tags, and added new categories.

Which was a lot of work, but it did what I wanted, which is changed the look and feel of this site. To be fair, I don’t think anyone actually uses it as I have it set up – I think mainly people read individual posts as shared from the WordPress reader or social media, but hey. Not like I’m putting up a ton of content here.

…Unlike Comparative Geeks. Where there are now over a year’s worth of 6-posts-a-week. And I’m thinking about similar sorts of changes, at least on the individual post levels: moving some categories to tags, and cleaning up the categories. We currently have 32 categories, and a number of them are things that more likely function as tags on other blogs – and that’s how people browsing through blogs might find us! What you define as these tags also carry over to other social media sites, especially, I have found, Tumblr.

So let me explore a few of the challenges I see in store for Comparative Geeks, dealing with the tags and categories in particular – more to come on some of my other plans for Comparative Geeks! Read on for some good blogging food for thought.

Read more of this post

Filed under Thinking Tagged with , , , , , , , , , , ,

Internship Blues

05/05/2013 1 Comment

As the concluding class of my Master of Science in Library and Information Science, I have to complete an internship. I want to tell a bit of the story of setting up this internship, and the hardship it has caused. But first, I want to talk about the blog.

Adding an internship to a full-time job makes it very hard to find time to blog. I am doing the best I can just to keep up my three posts a week on Comparative Geeks. I want to write some fiction, and I keep finding excuses, and the internship is really the biggest one yet. And all of this exists as a priority before writing on this blog. I have a lot of posts I want to post here, thoughts and ideas. My experiment I left hanging, though I think I am going to wait a month this time, unlike the week I waited last time. So expect more to come there.

And I’ve turned to re-blogging to create content here. Except, I don’t think anyone is actually reading them, and I’m not seeing clicks through to Comparative Geeks, either. So is re-blogging serving a purpose? Creating content for the sole purpose of there being content here?

So I plan on blogging when I have something to say here, when I have the time, and desire. I have been wanting to write about my challenges with my internship, so let’s do that! Read more of this post

Filed under Introverted Tagged with , , , , , , , , , , ,

Recommended Blogging Platforms

05/25/2012 Leave a comment

So what blogging platforms would I recommend right now for a couple of different bloggers? Let’s think… Read more of this post

Filed under Thinking Tagged with , , , , , ,

Comparing Blogging Platforms

05/25/2012 1 Comment

So when I think of blogging, I think of WordPress. The designers in my life (my wife and my best friend) both swear by it, though when I peak at their sites, they have their own domains and control them. Then again, they mainly use their sites as their online portfolio, meaning they match up far more with the idea of a “webpage” – static information to come back to later to see the same as before. Regardless, for people getting going on a blog, or even a site in general, I know they often recommend WordPress. One that I think may have been recommended from my wife and then through the grapevine to the writer: http://justflipthedog.com/ This WordPress blog is a good example of one that has grown and been taken over fully by the author to the point of now having book sales linked out, and other things, but starting from a simple WordPress. Read more of this post

Filed under Thinking Tagged with , , , , , , ,

IST 511 – Day 2

07/22/2009 Leave a comment

Sometimes it’s all about how you present something. That is what today was about – between looking at the complexities of searching, copyright law, and the presentation from a couple of librarian/information architects from Razorfish. (Neat website by the way!) Read more of this post

Filed under Thinking Tagged with , , , , , , , , ,