Five times (or so) over the weekend I wanted to blog about something interesting, and each time I didn't have anything to blog on, so the bit was lost. Argh. I've got to work on alternate blogging methods. I could build an email gateway and use an alpha pager, if I owned an alpha pager.

Though you'd think that after two years of keeping a weblog, I'd have a clear concept of what tone and content my weblog should have, and what it should be about. While it's evolved over time, it seems that posts have tended to fall into three different buckets of late: The present-time life tidbits, with occasional insightful tidbits or wandering rants, the technology essays, and the stories from present or past life, told in more of a storytelling framework.

I feel that while the first is the subject for a blog, it's the second and third that people (other than my immediate, real-life friends) find more interesting. Also, those are the ones that aren't as timely, and it frustrates me that after a week these well-thought pieces that I put more time into are lost off the front page and never seen again except by the occasional 'by topic' wanderer or google search.

I'm looking for different ways to segment this content, so that someone coming to Fury for the first time can see this stuff, without having to know to click on the 'essays' button. I'm also trying to find a good kind of framework for tying in other projects I'm working on, both to and from Fury and to and from each other. One possibility is the 'troff' approach, ala Yahoo!, or cross-referencing bannerlets, but I'm trying to find the right way to structure data presentation so that some 'topics' aren't merely classifications, but real site features.

This is what I do for a living, so I should be able to find a good solution, but I'd like to hear about what you like and don't like both content-wise and navigation-wise, so I can design toward my real user base, not just those people who talk to me about my site.

If you're a lurker, and haven't written to me or posted in the comments before please do so now. Consider this an assignment. I don't run ads, I don't ask for anything from people who read Fury, but in exchange, I'd like to see every single person who reads this site think about the site for a minute or two, and give me your insights.

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Thanks. :-)