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October 31, 2002

In with the old

You'll notice that links to months from a year ago or more are showing up in the archives listing for this blog. It's because I've invented a time machine and am going back to do some catch-up work periodically. If there's anything better than having 14 years to prepare for the presidency, it's having 14 years that you can live over and over again! ;-)

Actually, the real reason is that I am adding to the blog lots of old messages from when I was blogging without blog software (back in the "Glimpses of Freedom" days). Moveable Type allows me to backdate them, which is way cool. Once I finish with the old blog posts, I'm going to do the same thing with my "Views" pages. Those have been presented as having way too much relevance on this site. I've got them set up like they are supposed to be organized issue statements of some sort, when really they are much more like blog posts-- either snippets of conversation drawn from discussion forums, or impromptu opinion pieces. Most of the people who come to this site and veer off of the home page go to one of the views pages. Also, it's those pages which get most of the search engine hits-- or at least it was before I set up this blog.

(Weird aside: A couple nights ago, I had written a few notes in the MT posting window, which I planned to develop into full messages later. One of those notes was "Michaal Cloud's hunger strike". I didn't post or save the message, just left it sitting in an open browser window. Then, yesterday, when I was writing up my entry on Michael Cloud, I did a Copernic search for "michael cloud" "hunger strike", to see if I could find a news story on it. I only got like four results back-- none of them news stories -- but one of the results was my web site! It spooked me out for a little while, but then I realized that I had mentioned Michael Cloud in a different post, and then Bob Schulz's hunger strike elsewhere.)

Anyway, it's been a bad set up to be sending people to those few pages like they are some sort of Grand Platform or something. They make much more sense filed as various entries in the blog from years back. That's their proper weight. Every now and then I pull up a bunch of those Views pages and I mark them for repair or revision, but it's sort of like trying to revise a shack into a big beautiful house. Those posts aren't bad, they're just kinda crude and informal. They don't need to be re-worked really, just de-prioritized. And then maybe re-worked sometime later.

I have some issues with the idea of changing history, though, which makes me resistant toward making any sort of substantial changes to old stuff I've written. It feels a little like I'm trying to hide the truth, or hide from my origins or something. If I didn't mean for it to be written that way, then why did I write it? That kind of thing. Though in reality, most of the views pages weren't written as is. The majority of them are cobbled together from snippets of my conversations at Salon's TableTalk discussion area in 1996 and 1997. That's one of the main reasons some of them read so jerkily, and I've just never been able to figure out how to smooth them out very well.

So that's the story behind the mysterious resurrected blog posts. I think it's going to make for a much more balanced site. Of course, it means I'll have to come up with some replacement primary pages to send people to-- good ones this time -- sooner rather than later. But that's long overdue anyway, so it's all good.

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