Tag Archives: Site Admin

Links Kill

Posted on by Ryan K.

As you might have noticed recently, this blog has had a whole series of posts that are links to articles around the web that I find interesting. After about two months of this, I have decided that I am going to stop with these posts. While I think some of my readers get a glimpse of what interests me, in addition to simply finding cool tidbits from around the web, the posts occured too frequently (daily) for me to really be making use of this blog properly. Furthermore, the links were not substantial enough to really connect meaningfully with readers. It’s been a great experiment, so thanks for hanging in there and continuing to read.

If you’re still interested in the links to what I’m reading, check this out: http://delicious.com/ryan.kellett or RSS here. I will continue posting links to Delicious but they won’t show up here.

In case you’re interested, the way these links appeared day after day was rather elaborate. I use Twitter as my main source of publishing links to the world. Packrati.us, a new and cool service, picked up my links from Twitter and posted them to Delicious. Delicious then served a daily set of links to this blog by logging in to my wordpress account and posting a summary.

While I continue employment/liberal art blogging over at liberalart.us (check it out), I hopefully will add some more substantial posts here over the coming months.

The New On Rye

Posted on by Ryan K.

Welcome to the redesigned On Rye Blog at ryankellett.com (or soon to be transferred to ryankellett.com). As part of a several week revamp and cleanup of my online life, I readjusted this blog in design, technology, and hopefully in perspective…

Design: First, you’ll notice that I’m opting for a darker, simpler, and cleaner design. The homepage now only features the latest few posts and removes a cluttered two-sidebar look. I also no longer have my own face staring back at me whenever I visit my own website. Let’s just hope my ego has deflated an appropriate amount as a result. The idea behind this interface is that the reduced emphasis on the actual blog part of the website. As many on the Intertubes have noted, the era of the personal blog has entered its dying days. This blog/website can now focus more on presenting some of my digital media projects and while still being an online home-base.

Technology: I have moved this blog from wordpress.org to wordpress.com. This means nothing to the average viewer but it means that I have opted to no longer host my own content. In other words, I have ceded control of some aspects of the customizability of the website in exchange for not paying $10 a month to Yahoo.

Perspective: I want to challenge myself to get back into blogging at an interval of once a week. One could call it a new year’s resolution. But more important than how frequently I blog, I’d like to renew a sense of why I blog. I think I’ve lost of blogging as a means of self-reflection and a place for stewing ideas. Of course, I will continue to use this blog as documentation tool, as I always have.