One Month Later…

One month after starting up this site, here we are. 6th June, 6th May

May 6 I began a hands-on experiment with a magazine/newspaper style of “umbrella site” to hold all my other publications that are currently scattered across several services out there. The idea was that “TEdASPHERE v1.0” would be a good learning experience, then I’d uninstall it and start a new instance of it and go “for real” with the new installation.

But here it is a month later and all I’ve done is changed the title to “The TEdASPHERE Globe”
and given it a tag of “Activating Citizen Activism” and it’s slipped straight into its role as the news resource I wanted it to be.

I’ve always been a bit wary of WordPress – so many things to unlearn and learn new ways of doing – that I avoided it for a decade. But then I started O Hai Corona on a WP installation on a web hosting service (Digital Pacific, btw, who have always done the right thing by me and I have no hesitation recommending to fellow Aussies) and used it to both react to the pandemic as it was unfolding and learn to manage a WP installation.

The Globe now has Letters to the editor, brings automated feeds from the SMBC and XKCD funnies, the WriterOfMinds publication, and will feature more as time goes on. I’ve started developing the categories and am about halfway through making category banners, getting a stylebook together, and finding voices for the newer sections of the paper.

I’ve shifted focus – slowly, imperceptibly over the years – and a bit quicker in the last month – of the blogs towards activism in their respective spheres, and intend to make this a hub for a more active and hands-on community.

I still have a tonne of things to learn but I feel a lot more confident now that I can find and fix minor issues, and change many of the default behaviours and appearances of things, and (hopefully) fix anything that may go wrong.

So welcome to the new format for my blogs!