Japanse New-Girl Monkey Network
External Processing
First week of work progressed well. I've already been the beneficiary of two free lunches. I do believe I could get used to this place.
But on to the real journal entry. Despite my prolific catalog of blatherings, I'm not really the type of person to think out loud. As unpolished as my writings can be, they're still usually the product of some sort of previous deliberation. So here is my experimental attempt at working out my ideas as I type.
The beginning of the dilemma: the identities and natures of my two web sites. Traditionally, The Geek Icon has been my "core" site, covering my technology fetish and my compulsion to write, and Japanese New-Girl Monkey was just a place to stow random silly stuff, my whimsical side. When I started up ARJLog, I don't really know why I put it on JNGM, but it became the focal point for expression, and Geek Icon fell out of use. Now, each site has a little bit of both, with no real clear definition of which one has which function. JNGM has a "professional" aspect as well, since it hosts my portfolio-- the original intention being that an employer looking at my resume online might be less than impressed with the geekicon.net domain name.
But what do I want to do now? I might switch things around, so that Geek Icon just contains my personal ramblings/ blog, and JNGM has more polished stuff, and my resume. Or I might make Geek Icon be the home of writing, while JNGM has more techie stuff, like programming or web building experiments-- except that purely name-wise, it makes more sense that "Geek Icon" be a place where you find tech stuff and a name like Japanese New-Girl Monkey is associated with creative pursuits.
Still undecided. The first notion makes the most sense so far (Geek Icon == personal blogs, JNGM == polished output). I'll have to mull it over a bit more.
The second dilemma is what to post and how to post it. Of course, I'd want something to take the place of ARJLog in the sense that friends and family can visit that site and see how I'm doing, read my latest musings, see goofy pictures of me or that I take, so on, so forth, etc.
I also want to do a writer's journal. I would want it to be organized into writing projects (for example, a particular short story would be a project, then I could post drafts, notes, freewrites, character sketches, etc. for that particular project, and they would be logically grouped together). Each project would have entries categorized by their function in the writing process. I've developed a database model I think would facilitate this, but I haven't finished implementing it yet. I'm hoping it's flexible enough to also contain more generic blogs (like the one previously mentioned). And, since my new job requires me to learn the company's custom-built content management system, I have some ideas on effective ways to implement it quickly and usefully.
More existential blog angst later.
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