This Post is Al thinking aloud how better to organize some recent stuff I want to explore. I want my stories to become more focused.
One acceptable type is detailing a relatively narrow topic like
- Alternate Realities
- Blog Books
- BPCS Doc Sources
- Link Types
- Radio Doc Sources - this MAY be getting too large again, and need rethinking if it has outgrown its structure
Another acceptable type is providing a big picture, that can have many threads, with links to additional details. But what is not acceptable, that I need to fix, is a story that tries to tackle several different topics, each of them in some detail. Each topic, that needs detail, also needs to be in a separate story.
When I have a cluster of related stories or threads, then they need some summary index explaining briefly what is the function of each and how they hang together, like I do with
- Al Categories
- Radio Wishes
- XXX not enough good examples =
- I not been doing such a hot job here
There are a very few exceptions to this, which present challenges to avoiding becoming unwieldy, as shown in my Fri Nov 22 post to e-Radio Ideas about Blog Software. Some stories that have become unwieldy by biting of more than they can chew and properly digest might include
- Blog Money ... various ideas belong in different stories with this being the index to all the ideas
- Search Engine Tips ... too many ideas in one story ... they need to split
I recently shared and posted some stuff on getting a handle on the size of the Blog Sphere. Where did I put it, and where should I put more?
- e-Radio Ideas Category for Mon Nov 18 had the second of my two large analyses on how I think it could be done, in the suggestions and wishes department.
- Brain 2 Brain Category this weekend is sharing what has been added, from the perspective of existing resources that we might utilize better, by: A klog apart; Seb; Column Two; Group Forming; Curiouser; and others ... many more to check out than I know I will have time for.
I ought to take the links these guys provided and make sure they are in my Blog Software Perspectives, what I am now labeling a Do It Yourself Consumer Reports comparison of what different types of weblogs and weblog services exist, how to compare them. The new (to me) stuff that are weblog directory Link Services - make sure they also go there.
I need a new story called Blog Census, with links to the actual pages where the various Link Services give their latest numbers, then chart how many they all had as of the same date, planning to update that picture at least once a month. Give Blog Software Perspectives an index summary link to where Blog Census will have the detail.
The latest new data into Brain 2 Brain has some Link Services that I had not yet explored. Review my e-Radio Ideas post Fri Nov 22 where I had made significant progress in the Blog Software family of stories, but still somewhat disorganized what belongs in Link Services as opposed to Search Enginie Tips. I now think Link Services should be a directory of all I have heard of, looked into or not, like the Blog Software family lists first, explores second, while Search Enginie Tips will have an entry linking to a home page of the outfit while pointing to Link Services for more info as I figure it out.
Grand Plan conclusions (Al's marching band music still to be played out)
- Up top Blog Software Perspectives clarify what I mean by Do It Yourself Consumer Reports comparison of what different types of weblogs and weblog services exist, how to compare them.
- Make sure up top Link Services clarity of statement what the purpose of that directory is aimed at.
- Entries about Link Services now in Search Enginie Tips copy as is to Link Services.
- Re-do Search Enginie Tips to link to the service, and point to Link Services for more info as I develop it.
- Link Services new vision becomes like Blog Software, a directory of all the places that I find out about is first priority, info on each is second.
- Make sure all the links from this weekend Brain 2 Brain are in fact in Link Services when relevant.
- The original posts to Brain 2 Brain might be linked into Blog Software Perspectives where relevant.
- Blog Software Perspectives already has some info about getting a handle on the size of our Blog Sphere. Leave the basic question there, moving the detail to open Blog Census, in which Blog Software Perspectives will focus on the Do It Yourself Consumer Reports comparison concepts, pointing to other sites and pages for the details.
- Use Blog Software Perspectives as my starting point for mapping ths stuff ... that way I can see if there is anything I already knew about that appears to be missing from there.
- As I (re)explore each Link Services also add an entry to Blog Census, if I see the page with that kind of data.
- As I make significant progress in this grand plan, periodically share a revised index to what I got done, via e-Radio Ideas to dws.Radio.FAQ.
12:30:35 PM 
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