Spring is here and, as always, it makes me think of reorganizing this blog a bit. Don’t worry, I’m not going to break it hard this time. I am happy with the software so far.
Instead, I will break the site into several more. I tried it before and, although not all parts worked very well, I’m glad I did. Reorganizations help me stay focused.
The reason for reorganization is that this blog once again turned into a little bit of everything. I write about everything – from technology to parenting – here and also do a whole bunch of pictures. That’s not very good. Looking closely at people who come here, I can’t find anyone who reads all of my posts. Some people read those, and others – read these, but noone reads everything, and that’s not right.
So, I am thinking about:
- Creating a separate blog for my parenting posts. It will most probably be in Russian, and it will have all pictures of Maxim, Olga, me, and the rest of the family, when appropriate. Hopefully, Olga will join me in writing posts there. Maxim is getting more active and creative, and it’s a shame to leave all the fun that we are having out of the world history. The choice of Russian language, I think, is more appropriate here, as both Olga and I can describe things better in it, rather than in English.
- Creating a separate blog for my movie reviews. Those are very well structured bits of data, and they are very specific too. These will continue in Engish and will use the same form. I am also considering the use of microformat to increase the audience, and to, hopefully, make a little bit of money via Google Ads.
- Creating a separate blog for technology related posts, but this will be done (if it will be done) at a much later stage. There are too many things to worry about as things are.
As I mentioned, this is not the first time that I move things out of this blog. I did so before. Here are a couple of examples to remind you about:
- XA-XA-XA – a separate blog for the Russian jokes. This one works pretty good. Postings are regular, resources are plenty, and my enthusiasm about it is pretty high. The audience is growing too.
- Cyprus Scout – a separate blog for my Cyprus related posts. This one doesn’t do as well, as I originally hoped. My interests have shifted to other domains, and the audience wasn’t pushy enough for me to work more on it. I am planning to give a last try though, with call for editors. If one or more people will be contributing to it, I’ll be coming back occasionally to add my cents.
- My LiveJournal – a place where I speak Russian. Rarely, and with no particular topic or direction. But I still feel pretty good about having it.
Anyway, I am still thinking about doing all these. My mind is not made up yet (although it’s heading there) and you can still influence my decisions. What do you think about all this?
I don’t get what is microformats.
Just a thought, you could use categories to separate this blog to look like it’s more than one.
Microformats are ways to categorize content. For example, now, when I write a movie review, only humans know for sure that this is a movie review. Machines can make an educated guess, based on the link to IMDB or something like this, but that’s about it.
With review microformat, I could fill in some fields, like movie title, my rating, my opinion, etc. Search engines and other aggregators could then know for sure what I am talking about and what is it exactly am I saying.
Yeah, I thought about it. I still think that having these things separated is better. I can promote those easier and bring in external help too. There is, of course, a hassle with maintenance, but I’m prepared to undertake that. :)
Have you thought of wordpres mu. Which allows multible instances of wp?
I’m thinking about it. I definitely have to try it in the nearest future. ;)