Sidenote: Pfft. Regularly. I’m funny. Oh, and this post took me like a week to write. I don’t know why I got so slow at this…
Not sure why I haven’t really thought this through before… I’ve listed things in the past to help me track down what I wanted this blog to be… but I might have to redefine what Josh Kim dot Org is about again.
It has become very obvious to me now that I write about two very disparate topics. The funny thing is, I probably wouldn’t have come to this conclusion if I just sat there with my blank sheets of paper, creating diagrams about what categories should go where. (Which I’ve done before) Another lesson in doing, and not planning.
The Two Topics
1. Technology & the Internet: The recent post about Mint.com is a great example of this topic. I love to talk about Web Applications, Web Development, Gadgets, Apple, User Interface Design, Content & Media… Whatever that tickles my fancy born out of 0′s and 1′s. Somehow, I’ve managed to categorize them… hopefully, this system continues to make sense in the long run.
2. Personal/Relationships/Random: Not necessarily mutually exclusive from the first topic (how social networks define “friends” is one post I’ve been working on for months…), but rather not as exciting for most people. I tend to talk a lot about lessons I get out of living life. Man… the amount of relational crap I’m going through… and how much I’m learning about myself and the people around me… it’s almost too much at times. I have to start writing… but I end up trashing it, or pushing it aside, or posting it privately, thinking it doesn’t really fit with anything else. But it’s all too interesting, and I want people to read it: At least, the people it applies to anyway.
I also have tons of little random things I learn that I want to share. My desire to solidify my grasp on that topic could have been materialized as a post about that topic. Just recently there was a story on the difference between credit and debit cards, and how they charge different fees on which one is being used and how they affect the merchants. Also, just recently, I was hit in the face with some good poetry… another area I want to get acquainted with. Movie reviews, cooking tips, recent music choices…
More Balkanization?
One of my favorite words in high school… lovely.
What kind of person has favorite words anyway?
See, that? Right there? That kind of stuff would make it to Topic #2.
And so, in efforts to keep this site a bit more structured, I will be diving into WordPress to break this blog into two. One feed will include just the first topic, while a second feed will include both the tech and the personal. Those that are subscribed right now will be getting all the items. If you’d like to opt out of my non-geek drivel, I’ll keep you posted in the weeks to come.
The Catalyst
I’d like to leave with a quote that really started this line of thinking to begin with from Stephen, a highly quotable guy:
If you want to talk about something generally and cathartically, do. It’s not wasting anybody’s time. If they don’t want to read it they won’t. If they do, they’ll at least have a general idea what’s going on in your life.
A lot of my issues I will tend to hide, thinking I’ll seem weak to others. But I feel like if it’ll help others that are going through the same types of issues, then I will post publicly on it. Heck, it’ll help me get over it, too… whatever it is.
Hopefully, this will clear up a few posts that are coming up… cuz… they have nothing to do with topic #1.
