I've been abusing you, joereger.com readers. In the depths of my training these last few months I was too tired to blog anything but the annoying "30 Min Swim, 1 Hr Run" posts which provided you with little value. And then I hooked those posts up to Facebook so that they'd auto-spam all of you. And most of you smartly clicked Facebook's Hide button as my signal-to-noise ratio plummeted (which means that you're not reading this, btw.)
Today I'm implementing some changes to keep things a little more exciting. Well, at least to hide the boring crappy stuff.
I'm removing the training log posts from the homepage and rss feed. I'll still be logging workouts, of course. I just won't be pushing them to the homepage. You can always find the training log from a link in the upper right corner of the homepage. I'll use the training log for mundane stuff and then I'll use the Training Thoughts log to share any insights, race reports, summaries, etc.
I'd like to move to more of a weekly update. More thought out posts, some actual insight into my life. Maybe I should do two... one for my life. One for my business life. Not sure.
I find social media is a balancing act. On the one hand I want to archive the minute details of my life... to hoard information simply for the sake of having it ten years from now... it's the details that flesh out the story, especially in retrospect. But those details are boring now and I haven't done a good job of balancing how those details percolate to the front page, my twitter feed, my facebook feed, etc.
MyThredz was my first attempt to remove some of the clutter from joereger.com. MyThredz powers the little green boxes up at the top of the page. The idea was that I could organize these little detail posts into categories (threads) and then only grant them limited screen real estate on the homepage. I think it worked well. But then I plugged them into Facebook and Twitter. Well, and 40+ other social networks. Meaning that the spam was back on. The technology to optionally post things to my social networks was built into the original system... I just haven't used it very well so far. I'll try to improve.
Thanks for being along for the ride. joereger.com has always been and will always be a work in progress. Feedback welcome, as long as it's positive.
SoCon08