MegaAwesome

I’m still catching up after a radical schedule shift at work last week kept me from my usual morning ritual of poking around online for an hour and drinking six cups of coffee. Finally things are settling down enough that I’ve got some ‘me’ time (drinking beer and watching the worst martial arts movies that EveryDay Music has to offer). I think it helps that my cell phone is now completely broken and people can’t get in touch with me.

Criticism of the Herald’s comment policy is making the rounds again (such as here, here, and here). I don’t want to just wind up repeating what I’ve said before, so I’ll just add this:

The current commenting system, both the use of Haloscan and whatever moderation policy may exist, is a complete teardown. The whole thing needs to be rebuilt from scratch (if at all). There is no shortage of ways to participate in discussion online, I think it’s time to let this one die.

In other news the redesign of this site has now officially been 90% complete for four months. It’s probably my lowest priority, and I expect to find some time to get it done sometime in early-to-mid 2009.

In far more pressing and exciting news I’ve been working with Chris from Bellingham Bloggers on more fully implementing his vision for the project, and that’s coming along quite well. I think that the site is going to be really great when he’s done with it.

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