Rocketfuelled
Reuben Whitehouse

Rake 19.06.08

So I’ve decided to pull my blog back into Rocketfuelled.com and away from Tumblr. The reasons for such a not-actually-very-radical idea are multiple and floating. Mainly, though, I realised that while Tumblelogs are seriously awesome, whenever I visit one I never hit up more than 2 pages of it. They’re kinda like those sales baskets in shops where you know there’s potentially some awesomeness lingering deep in the depths but after reaching in once or twice you get tired and move on, literally throwing potential-bargain caution to the wind (ahem).

I’ve been wanting to have somewhere to put some various writes that are lingering around in my tiny brain or on on my tiny harddrive. Problem’s been that I don’t feel that the Tumblr system really encourages this – it feels like you’d spend some significant time and effort to write something and then it’d get buried within a couple days by throw-away, 2-second-effort postings of links, images, etc., never to be seen again. Maybe that’s exactly what should happen to my quality of writing but, dang it, I’m not cool with it.

The one other reason is that I’ve recently only found myself going to websites which I can picture – you know, the ones which are well designed and have good content. Branding (who knew?). I’ve started a feed reader account but I still can’t get comfortable with it – I prefer to rely on the old noggin’. Even though you can skin a Tumblelog anyway you want, it’s the format, I think, which makes up the design and it’s that format that turns me away after a small amount of time. Compare your visit to a Tumblelog compared to, say, Subtraction.com.

So, it’s the usual case of doing this over time – pulling in the old posts, figuring out some methods to post links, images, etc. on here. I’m going to try and pull in the content from when I had a blog here ~18 months ago too. All nice and central. Lots of crap maybe, but lots of crap in one place, under one very helvetica-tastic design. I have of course got a redesign of this site sitting around at the half-HTML’d-up stage and have been putting this exercise off until then, but I got bored of procrastinating.

So I’ve pointed the RSS feed back to here and content flow should be increasing over time as I pull in various bits.