What To Do #4
Yeah, I know I didn't update yesterday. I'm suffering from a sinus infection (whole... right... side of face... paiiIInfulLL!), and I had to finish my monthly column for MacTech. Anyways, we're nearing the homestretch of projects on the Disobey site, so off we go (see also part one, two, and three):
- Anti-Press Ezine is the only zine currently (and regularly) published by Disobey, and there's only one reason for that: I'm just the publisher. It's actually created by a guy named "Anti-Press" down in Plattsburgh, New York, and was enjoyable enough to offer to my wider reader base and capabilities. This happened years ago, when I was still big into publishing my own stuff as zines (which, I think, no longer interests me). Regardless, there's no personal determination on priority or growth for this one. Nothing to see here folks.
- Chico's Groove is dead and buried and should stay that way. It arose out of my need to more adequately tell everyone all the craziness Disobey was doing, buying, and feeling - a topic DNN never really covered in the old days (when it was the "News" not "Nonsense"). My problem now is that I do too much stuff, and splitting them into different directions (a blog with RSS and a zine via email) just isn't conducive. My efforts should be focused on this fly-by-the-cuff blog, which was around long before the blogolution (did I just say "blogolution"? holy ass, someone shoot me). Granted, I enjoyed Chico's Groove (and yes, I have thought of doing an RSS-to-email version of DNN, but running it under "Chico's Groove" just insults the original style of the zine). Prune, then close, high priority.
- Devil Shat can't, and won't, ever die. The first product of Disobey, it actually started when everything was called "Evil Ey Games"... but after getting kicked off AOL for issue four, "Disobey" arose, priorities shifted, and Devil Shat was still there. Closing Devil Shat would be an end to an era and memories I never want to let go, so I'm saying it's a restore with medium priority. It won't be on a regular schedule, but more akin to microwaved rants on a erratic basis. (If Devil Shat was so great, why did it become a ghost town? Primarily, I grew older: from the ranty "the world is against me" teen to the muddled "what the hell am I again?", and back to "man, the world isn't against me, but it sure does make stupid mistakes".) It could stand to use a redesign (it's the same 1997 "grey on black ubercool" design it has ever been), as well as being powered by Movable Type (which I still haven't mapped out perfectly yet).
- Ghost Sites is still going strong and musty, but more as a critical and visual archive of history than the regular monthly sarcazine it used to be (the blinding light of preservation keeps those readily available too). Along with the huge screenshot collection, Steve Baldwin has been regularly added Web Elegies to each corpse, increasing its cultural permanence. No growth or priority for me, since Steve's the man with the master plan (eYyeyaaaah).
Up next: all the things I do that aren't linked from anywhere!
