This is nothing to do with new year
resolutions, as I discovered years ago that those simply do not work
for me. It is more about looking at various note files which will
become future posts. The good news (for me, anyway) is that there is
material for something like 30 posts in various states of completion.
Some of it would take as little as half an hour of work, if I were to
continue as I have in the past.
I don't want to do that. I don't know
that it has been particularly effective, and behind the scenes I have
been organizing the work into themes that I want explore in some
depth, and thinking about how to make the intended audience for any
given post explicit. Do I need a simple classification scheme, or do
I need to think in terms of an ontology? How is what I want to do
constrained by the Blogger platform?
The simplest case was in doing the
initial blog layout. I wanted the date of publication right up top.
There is a lot stale information on the Web, and I think that part of
that is purposeful. There is a business incentive (so-called Long
Tail economics of the Web) for making publication dates harder to
find. It is also a complete pain in the ass for many members of my
tribe (security workers) who may have to digest dozens of news
articles, blog posts, etc., every day.
I would also like to make life a bit
easier for the tool builders who are creating the next generation of
automated ingestion systems. So I would like to keep things as stable
as possible. Meaning don't change the current date format, and put
some thought into the forthcoming 'Intended Audience', etc.
I expect to fail at this. The design
space begins to resemble API design (difficult to get right) and also
involves some Semantic Web thought. The Semantic Web has, rather
famously, never taken off. This a case where not failing horribly
would be a win.
Do not expect this stuff immediately.
It has been a couple of weeks since I posted, and it is going to be
difficult to post again until sometime around mid-January. Sorry
about that, but life intrudes.
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