Time to change things up!  I decided my old site was just too damn busy for how little it accomplished.  It was sort of set up like a super-hub for all that I do.  I thought that would put the mania to order and inspire more writing, but it just compounded the mess and inhibited the free-flow of ideas that I had originally set out to unleash.

The idea has been floating around for awhile, but it became a reality this past Thursday.  A friend posted a link to some special media of the morning and after getting my chuckle my eye gazed across the rest of the page.  Right there in the right sidebar was a familiar widget we’ve all seen thousands of times: “Related articles.”  Except it wasn’t titled just that.  It was titled “Posts that are probably related.”  They weren’t.  What an f’n cop out, and a total waste of effort.  There is nothing useful about that.  It’s bullshit.  It’s filler for filler’s sake.  I opened TweetDeck, ready to unleash hell, when I thought “well, if that’s bad then my own site is total garbage.  I mean I import my Flickr feed on every single sidebar!”  I withheld the tweet and fired up Illustrator.  And here we are.

The plan here is to cut the crap.  More writing, more ideas, open for iteration and improvement, and hopefully a little more exchange with you all as well ;)  Let’s do this!