a slightly different focus

For a while now, I’ve been meaning to recode this blog such that there are two classes of posts:

• “Post-type posts,” which are similar to this entry — because this type of entry is all that I’ve got set to go right now.
• “Quickie-type posts,” which are snippets, things that aren’t worthy of a full post, but are those little things — honestly often little things that are also little things to others who blog — and I see it, and note that it’s something I want to be able to reference later … but it’s not really full-post-worthy material.

Having “classes” of posts may not sound like a good idea, but, honestly, there are a couple of realities getting the in way of posting only “ideal” material:

• Time. Mine’s extremely limited. Indeed, when things aren’t active around here, it’s not because I wish them to be quiet, it’s because I don’t have the time to have it be otherwise. Period.
• Quality. Okay, it’s blunt, but some things are, frankly, more worthy than others. Gee, the internet?

The best example I can cite is Jason Kottke. Not only is he amazing, covering great material and more subjects than I possibly ever could, he’s … got the notion of multiple classes of post. Plus, he’s got a great sense of design, asthetics, urbanism, style, and, well, all sorts of other subjective things I agree with…;)

Meanwhile, here’s an example of what I’d like to post, if only I’d be bothered to set up a “quickie” setup on the blog:

The Ampersand. As a book designer, typographer, and overall type geek, I’m interested in this, and Adobe’s put up a nice history.

I store this kind of article in a browser tab and read it as soon as I have a spare moment (e.g. something uploading, waiting for a page to load or PSD action to complete, etc.) — but very rarely have time to translate the better of those into a bookmark, let alone a blog post.

So, why not a quickie post? A couple of thoughts, a link, and it’s done. There would be more content here, and the truly important-to-me stuff (yeah, my blog, so my stuff gets priority — natch) would be separated in an easy-to-understand yet easy-to-differentiate manner. More, coming soon.