I’m writing this on a Saturday night after running some major upgrades on the Shared Creation blogging engine.
Right now it all looks a little different, and I feel compelled to let you know what is going on.
Shared Creation has been running for time and its been overdue for a fresher look. The posting has also gotten a little confused between the Magazine and Projects section. From now on the Magazine will be much more a traditional blog, it will run news, articles, updates regarding Shared Creation and other associated material. The Projects section will spend its time highlighting creative projects, and will talk about what it is like to create things in a digital age. All previous posts will be left in current positions to allow for ease of continued access.
This is all part of a series of updates that will move Shared Creation from being a cluster of sites / blogs and turn it into a network that aims to be a useful resource for people trying to create art in a digital age.
I’ll expound more on this and the changes coming to the Shared Creation over the next weeks as the changes bed in.
For just over a month now service has been poor with very few article updates on Projects and in the Magazine. Although a good service of images and other odds and ends has been posted to our Shared Creation on tumblr account.
The situation is that I’ve been through an office move whilst other work has also been at a very high level. This has contributed to a lack of time and energy to maintaining stories.
The good news is that things are now settling down and for a while at least normal service will resume.
I say for a while simply because after a few years and now a change in working location I’m wondering if now may be the time to rationalise Shared Creation a little. The original twin blog format was original and help readers find the right style of story for their needs, although with other services being added I am wondering if a single stream of material isn’t the best way forward.
I will ponder this and deliver the answer soon.
Meanwhile - if you’re wondering what a single stream of Shared Creation Material might look like then take a look at: http://friendfeed.com/robdavies
I’ve amalgamated the Shared Creation feeds and some personal material here. It makes for a interesting stream of thought. It may be the way to go for Shared Creation.
You may also want to check out Friendfeed. It’s a good way to shared idea.
I haven’t talked about the ongoing development of Shared Creation in a while. Mostly this is because after my initial experiments it has settled down into a cycle of posting material and running routine maintenance. The end result has been a growing readership and increased exposure to interesting material for myself. Of course there are also my other projects that I cover on Shared Creation. These also move at their own rate. Everything it seems has its natural pace, and whilst pace can be increased, natural development does have a nice feel to it.
Until that is something new comes along.
Something new has come along.
I’d like to introduce you to http://sharedcreation.tumblr.com/ AKA the Shared Creation Tumblelog.
I spend a lot of time online and thought it might be interesting to have a place where I can publicly file away interesting stories and images. Just a random stream of discoveries that don’t easily fit into the rest of Shared Creation but is related and good to see.
Of course what I don’t want to see is to have a grand idea and to not follow it through. So before announcing it I set the target of 5 entries per week - and I found that to be a good posting number and easy to achieve. From now on - there will be 5 entries per week in the tumblelog. In truth this is a new idea - and a definite experiment, but I have an idea it will work out.
You may be asking why I didn’t host it myself in Shared Creation. There are three reasons. First it was an instant set up, with a great system for making instant entries. Take a look at tumblr.com - its a great way of instantly posting information. Secondly - as Shared Creation gets more readers it makes sense to move an experimental new section into off site bandwidth. Allowing the new addition to find it’s feet without my bandwidth getting any larger. Finally of course - by making the tumble blog independent it has a chance of bringing more readers in.
So take a look at http://sharedcreation.tumblr.com/ I hope you like it.
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The new home page of Shared Creation has arrived. It features a slight evolvement in the site layout style. This will probably be updated further in the future. At the moment it is an access point for our existing sections whilst adding a central links repository and a fun polls section.
Hope you like it!
This week I’ve been focusing on a major update of the home page. I’ve never really been 100% happy with it but needed to consider how to structure the page. Well I’ve now considered the structure and the new home area is well into construction. It’ll provide a bit more than just a link to this and the projects section, whilst still continuing the binary nature of Shared Creation. In the future this new home page may well provide the foundation of integrating the various sections of the site, but that is for the future. Right now I’m looking at things on a step by step basis - so that means a new home page.
I’ll announce the launch of the new home page when it is time on both sections of Shared Creation and I hope it improves things for all readers and contributors.
On another note my many thanks to s7awek in the projects section. He’s been doing some great work helping in the look out for places to let writers know all about Shared Creation.
