Just Write

Re-Shuffle:

Things are shak­ing up around here–this online jour­nal¹ should look quite a bit dif­fer­ent, and the re-shuffling will continue.

I’m cur­rently start­ing with the Ele­gant Grunge theme, and we’ll see where it goes.

Re-Commitment:

Project 52 was tech­ni­cally a fail­ure, already. How­ever, “he wins who gets up more times than he is knocked down.”

750words.com:

I love the con­cept of 750words.com, and am excited to get back into the habit of writ­ing a journal.

A first con­cern is pri­vacy. All entries of all authors are stored (in plain­text) in a cen­tral data­base. I’d pre­fer they were stored locally, and any sta­tis­tics stored in the database.

Sec­ond, in addi­tion to Mark­down, I wish it could use Tex­tile:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_%28markup_language%29
http://textile.thresholdstate.com/ (cur­rent ver­sion)
http://textism.com/tools/textile/ (orig­i­nal version)

Big Free­bie from Adobe:

http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/landing/garamond/garamond.html

¹ I pre­fer not to use that “b” word. Dread­ful. By the way, if “blog” is a con­trac­tion of “web log,” shouldn’t it have an ini­tial apos­tro­phe, as in ‘blog?

Clear­ing out some of the cob­webs around here, to say that I’m excited.

Excited about:

http://project52.info/

What is Project52?

Project52 is a per­sonal chal­lenge geared toward get­ting fresh con­tent on your web­site. The goal is to write at least 1 new arti­cle per week for 1 year. Because we all know what it’s like to pro­cras­ti­nate on our content.

All you need to do is just com­mit to the chal­lenge and write the con­tent. This site is just here to remind you of that commitment.

How to Participate

• On Twit­ter, you can fol­low @p52info or use the hash­tag #p52. We’ll track that as often as we can.

• Add your site to the form below. In time, we’ll gather the RSS feeds and begin sort­ing out who the slack­ers are.
• If you would like a ban­ner to add to your site, feel free to down­load the logo. Be sure to link here and help spread the word. It’s time to get peo­ple writ­ing again!
• You can also join the Google Group, if you’d like to share thoughts, ideas, and var­i­ous bits of inspiration.

An awe­some idea, whose time is overdue.