POSZU State of the Site

It’s been a while since I’ve done regular posting here on POSZU. The Museum of Small American Museums was a nice break from the standard weekly schedule. I wrote all those essays a month ago, and since then I’ve just been hanging out, scheduling the posts at the right time (more or less) and thinking about POSZU, looking at how it looks.

The good news is that this whole time, I’ve been dying to post. If I hadn’t decided at the beginning that during the extent of the series I would take a break from other posting, I would have been posting three, four times a week or more. So I’m ready to get back into the swing of things, starting, well, more or less today.

So, the state of POSZU is strong. A few technical notes, and then we’ll be back to discussing the Internet, riots, philosophy, sex, literature, and all the rest.

First: I’m launching the site of my novel, Light on Fire. You can read more about the book here, but that is all academic, really. The good stuff, and by that I mean the entire novel, serialized for free, is at the book’s site: www.lightonfire.net. You should check it out. There’s a beta test, and there will be eBooks, and other fun stuff.

Second: I don’t personally use Tumblr. I like WordPress very much as a CMS, mostly because I hold all the files on a server, and can dig around if I need to. But, I was interested in knowing what it was all about, and what sort of tools work with the API, and so forth. So I’m going to start a POSZU Tumblr. As of now, it will just be carrying some of the more Tumblr-ready aspects of POSZU, the more blog and re-blog sorts of stuff, direct from here. It’s at poszu.tumblr.com, of course. If you follow people via Tumblr, or just want to see what POSZU looks like via Tumblr, then there you go. If you prefer RSS or reading POSZU on this site, then you can just stay where you are. Maybe it will evolve, maybe not. We’ll see.

Third: Speaking of the evolution of feeds, the POSZU Twitter feed is changing. I was using it for a while to post short bits to POSZU, as an inlet. But posting over two accounts is kind of a pain (I’m @Interdome, regularly) so now @poszu is just going to be a feed of the posts here. Yes, I know I ought to be unlinking my feeds, but it seems no one uses RSS anymore, at least I can’t be sure that they do. And now I don’t have to tweet all my POSZU pieces on my personal timeline, and those who like hearing about them can hear about them direct from the source. So we’re going to try it this way for awhile. Follow the Twitter for an update of all the posts here, if you like getting your information through that means. Of course, the good old RSS still works. And when everything changes again in a couple years, we’ll move it all around again.

That’s it. Thanks for reading.