Apr 01 2009
Reorganization
It strikes me that there’s the word organ right in the middle of reorganize. The image I have in mind is of liver, heart, small intestine, kidneys yanked out, reconnected and stuffed back in, squished back in, sewn up. A few changes in the plumbing and you’re crapping out the end of your neck.
That’s kinda like reorganizing a web site. As brutal, as gross, as tormented and deranged…
Today I was going through the page I’d created for writing–”Words”–figuring I’d update a bunch of dead links to all the publications that had run my work.
Man….that was humbling. Not only were links broken, some had disappeared altogether. There’s a feature I wrote when I was 23 about a r&B artist named Nexxis that won me my first first-place award. That’s disappeared, along with the longer version of my story on how the Arizona Court of Appeals’ came to rule on pornographic facials. Both of those represent some of the proudest moments from when I was just starting out.
I was upset for a moment when I visited the Tucson Weekly’s new web site and couldn’t find the author archive page. So alarmed I was that I wrote Jimmy, the editor, to find out what my writer’s agreement from five years ago looked like so I could republish some of it here at Maassive. He talked me down a few minutes later with the link…Relief. It was there all along.
Then I went looking for music reviews I’d written for the Manchester Evening News’ web site back in 2005 and 2006. As it turns out, MEN migrated all those reviews over to Citylife, the culture magazine’s web page…except for the comments. The comments are still on the old site, or some sort of in-between site. I hadn’t seen some of them before. I’d completely missed one guy kept coming back to tell me how much I sucked. Even though the comment was nearly four years old and the page just digital wastage in the expanse of half-dead links…I had to respond. I’ll not link it here. I’ll save that for another time.
I also realized that it didn’t really make sense to list everything on that page…fiction with essays with investigative journalism with reviews? They really oughta be separated somehow…reorganized…. Should I put all the prison/death penalty stuff on a single page, reportage and video alike? Then maybe the int’l human rights stuff on another page, and the silly creative stuff on another? You know, divide it by theme rather than media? I think so.
Anyway, this is a really rambling way to explain why there aren’t any pages on the banner anymore except for contact. I’ve taken them all down for remodeling. If you have an opinion on the matter, let me know. Always accepting suggestions.
