Consolidation

March 20th, 2008 | Posted in blog posts |

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a big fan of being connected on the web. I’m really into the social aspect of the way the web is evolving and I am usually among the first to try new things online. I’m also very fond of having an idea and immediately trying to do something with it.

That last part gets me into trouble sometimes. I will have an idea for a web site, start putting it together, and then realize that it is just not what I want to do. I have about half a dozen “idea sites” out there that don’t get any real traffic and don’t really do anything important. I’m too impulsive, I guess.

So over the past few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, and I think it is time to buckle down and get serious about my online presence. I can’t just start something spur of the moment without putting a lot of thought into it, and whatever I do it has to be something I can pour my heart and soul into. It can’t be something that I only have a marginal interest in maintaining.

That being said, I’m going to go through my domain list on my web server and start shutting some things down so I can focus. This in and of itself isn’t an impulsive act, but something I’ve really been considering for a long time. It is time for me to choose what I am going to be serious about.

As of now, I plan on keeping slaggle.com up and running, because it has become my de facto weblog for many years. It started out as a test site for new ideas for Cold Hard Slag as a new search idea for toy price guide info (now you can see where the name came from!) but eventually it just became a blog.

I’ve already decided what it is I’m going to focus on, but I don’t want to be very hasty in announcing it. I need to solidify some ideas first, to see if it is viable. Feel out the waters, so to speak. Once that is done, I’ll just have two web sites. This one and the other.

I will give you a hint about what I plan to focus my energies on: It will be something huge. Very big. And it is a dramatic evolution of something I’ve already done before. Don’t worry, I plan on moving forward with this so you will know very soon what it is I have planned.

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