Five-year missions
Now that I have other things on my mind besides LJ Idol (congratulations to winner whipchick!), I'm dealing with major changes in my other online haunts.
I found out the hard way (someone telling me the site was down) that the blogsite sponsored by the paper I work for, EastOfIndy.com, has been taken offline. Turns out I was the only person blogging on it, and the forums were mainly a couple of disgruntled locals and Tea Partiers trolling each other. So around the five-year anniversary, early August, under orders from the boss, the company webmaster took the site down.
Fortunately, the IT guy is a cool nerdy dude like me, and he gave me the admin password so that I could go into the site and copy off most of my blog posts (stuff I'd want to keep, like my numerous local theatre reviews). Made a crapload of doc files, but it's done.
Meanwhile, I got news about another online five-year venture.
Way back just after the turn of the millennium, I became a major contributor to Adam P. Knave's e-zine TwoHeadedCat.com, with about 120 essays posted. It is from that site I got the lovely icon that accompanies this post. It started shortly after 9/11 (it had been in planning for months beforehand, so wasn't inspired by the attacks, but their happening just before the site went live gave us a point of focus), and APK decided to stop posting updates in September 2006 so that he could focus on his other writing and publishing ventures, figuring five years of our voices in the wwwilderness speaking truth to whoever would listen was enough.
Told ya that to tell ya this: APK alerted us former 2HC staffers several weeks ago that due to software issues, he will at last take the site down for good on (appropriately) Sept. 11. You have one week to look at the essays, interviews and cartoons there. I have just as long to save copies of my contributions.
So that's what I'll be spending free time on this week. It's interesting to see what I wrote a decade ago, and note how my writing has changed and improved. As for what I'll do with that body of work -- collected as "Beldar's Planet" -- at the least, I'm thinking of forming it into a book at least for friends and family to see. As for the individual essays and rants appearing elsewhere online, I don't know right now. I'll consider that step after I've assembled the material.
I found out the hard way (someone telling me the site was down) that the blogsite sponsored by the paper I work for, EastOfIndy.com, has been taken offline. Turns out I was the only person blogging on it, and the forums were mainly a couple of disgruntled locals and Tea Partiers trolling each other. So around the five-year anniversary, early August, under orders from the boss, the company webmaster took the site down.
Fortunately, the IT guy is a cool nerdy dude like me, and he gave me the admin password so that I could go into the site and copy off most of my blog posts (stuff I'd want to keep, like my numerous local theatre reviews). Made a crapload of doc files, but it's done.
Meanwhile, I got news about another online five-year venture.
Way back just after the turn of the millennium, I became a major contributor to Adam P. Knave's e-zine TwoHeadedCat.com, with about 120 essays posted. It is from that site I got the lovely icon that accompanies this post. It started shortly after 9/11 (it had been in planning for months beforehand, so wasn't inspired by the attacks, but their happening just before the site went live gave us a point of focus), and APK decided to stop posting updates in September 2006 so that he could focus on his other writing and publishing ventures, figuring five years of our voices in the wwwilderness speaking truth to whoever would listen was enough.
Told ya that to tell ya this: APK alerted us former 2HC staffers several weeks ago that due to software issues, he will at last take the site down for good on (appropriately) Sept. 11. You have one week to look at the essays, interviews and cartoons there. I have just as long to save copies of my contributions.
So that's what I'll be spending free time on this week. It's interesting to see what I wrote a decade ago, and note how my writing has changed and improved. As for what I'll do with that body of work -- collected as "Beldar's Planet" -- at the least, I'm thinking of forming it into a book at least for friends and family to see. As for the individual essays and rants appearing elsewhere online, I don't know right now. I'll consider that step after I've assembled the material.