Frequency Robulation
I just had a realization! I think it warrants an exclamation. I will use frequency to differentiate my various web offerings. Continued on blog...
I have TONS of web presences. Sometimes I try out new places based on the ownership structure so then I end up with people following me on Patreon, Ko-fi, Instagram (all of which I hate for their corpo-ness) while I post mostly on Fedi, where I have an entirely new community (my favorite place to be). I have blogs & websites. I used to do newsletters. No matter what they're named they all end up being hodgepodge collections of me. The spaces I create especially for humanissome have Rartsy material, and vice versa. Even the space I made for my fiction project has overlap with my video diaries & daily posts. That's how I am. [1]
I struggle with organization of thoughts & projects. I share my journey. My art is me sharing my life. I have friends, fans, and followers. Even patrons. But... how to strengthen connections and community?
Hear me out but I think frequency is a good way to organize content.
When I start a new whatever the site setup kinda wants me to know what my project is and that effects the structure of how I share it. But I'm figuring things out as I go. There may be some who want to know everything that I'm sharing... but if I take it away from ME for a moment... there is nothing that I follow 100%. How or why would I expect others to sign up for Rob-Firehose? And it's not that I expect anyone to do that. But that's all I'm offering. I am putting myself in eleventy spaces (but not using eleventy; my laptop is too outdated) and hoping that some of what I put out reaches some of the people who want to see it sometimes. It's just me living my life so I'm not gonna criticize that, but as a content sharing method it's inefficient. Now I've figured out how to do it a little more orderly that still feels ok, I think.
I learn as I go. I struggled for years (decades?) with file organization on my computers. Eventually I figured out that I can't always make myself fit into a structure. That's not how I am, it's a constant struggle producing turbulence that burns up energy. I learned how to make an organization that fits me, rather than trying to fit me into what seemed like good organization. I do have a few file categories but the vast majority of my saved files are organized into folders by year and month. Within the designated categories the files are by the same date structure. That order is the closest to the truth of my mind. Whatever I read, bookmarked, saved at a certain time is related & interacting. My projects might contain audio, video, and text files, as well as downloads, in a variety of formats. Organization by date makes the most sense to my work style.
I have to think a little more before I implement it, but I'm thinking something like:
Rob Seasonally
Updates 2 to 4 times per year
Rob Monthly
Updates once each month
Rob Weekly
Updates once each week
Rob Firehose
Every post
Each type would have a URL that you can bookmark, an RSS for those noble few using the best internet interface, and the option to receive an email newsletter (I am working on this idea; not for firehose).
Instead of creating new sites, new things for each of the above I will use some of my existing addresses. Their descriptions will change to “monthly” or whatever, and explain about the RSS & email options.
I'm liking this idea. ※ [1] [2] soundtrack for post, I'm a funny dame performed by Eartha Kitt:
[2] even my notes require notes. putting a number in brackets is the format for within the text, above. down here the norm would be to start simply “1. Note text...” but if I do that markdown will format it as a list, indented. there's a way around it but i just like how it looks better in brackets :D
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