Soundbite: Random Act Of Mindless
I backed up my site the other day and copied it into Word. At 12 point font it came out at 441 pages. Word.
That’s more than 140,000 words. That’s a decent novel.
I think it would a pretty big leap of faith to think that you’re going to trawl through the archives to read what wouldn’t be a decent novel.
I’ve thought about adding categories to blog posts so people can read about this or that, but it’s too hard to categorise most of the posts.
I’ve thought about doing a “Best Of” collection of posts, but not everyone likes the same thing.
But I thought a better solution would be to go through the archive myself and pull out jist of the good ones and let you decide if you wanted to read them or not.
So in the nav bar on the right you’ve got a new section called Soundbite (pic) which contains snippets of posts you can click through to. These are pulled in as bitesize morcels served at random. Blog tapas, if you will. Pensamientos al vino.
Everytime you visit the homepage, there’s a different extract for you to read and visit the full post if you wish. Feel free to comment, too, because someone else may also get this snippet and when they will click through, they’ll see your comment.
For me, it’s a good way of keeping the archives alive and for you it’s a way of finding some good posts you may have missed.
Of course, if you’re reading this on RSS of one of those feedreader things like Bloglines or Feedreader or Netvibes (listen to me) then you’re not going to see the homepage, so you might miss out.
Those of you actually on the site, thanks for visiting and keep an eye on the Soundbites for whatever takes your fancy, or reload the page (pressing the F5 key) for a new one whenever you like.