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Old McDonald Had a Blog

published by Taran Rampersad on Thu, 09/08/2011 - 21:50

Old Macdonald had a blog, E-I-E-I-O
And on his blog he had entries, E-I-E-I-O
With a RSS here and a RSS there
Here a RSS there a RSS
Everywhere a RSS
Old Macdonald had a blog, E-I-E-I-O

Old Macdonald had a Twitter, E-I-E-I-O
And on his Twitter he had some tweets, E-I-E-I-O
With a tweet here and a tweet there
Here a tweet there a tweet
Everywhere a tweet tweet
With a tweet tweet here and a tweet tweet there
Here a tweet there a tweet
Everywhere a tweet-tweet
Old Macdonald had a blog, E-I-E-I-O

Old Macdonald had a blog, E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm he had a Facebook, E-I-E-I-O
With a like,like here and a like,like there
Here a like there a like
Everywhere a like-like
With a tweet here and a tweet there
Here a tweet there a
Everywhere a tweet tweet
With a RSS here and a RSS there
Here a RSS there aRSS
Everywhere a RSS
Old Macdonald had a blog, E-I-E-I-O

Repurposing.

published by Taran Rampersad on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 00:18

As I finish up repurposing KnowProSE.com to become the site for KnowProSE LLC, I've also been busy with a client site, Drupal 7 and perhaps too much conversation about strategic partnerships with people. It's easy to get overloaded when you're trying to do too much at the same time, and people have their own priorities. Today what is important to you isn't important to them, tomorrow it is important to them and not as important to you. Crazy ride.

One thing someone asked about was what would happen with all the blog content from KnowProSE.com. That doesn't seem as much of a big deal to me as I'm more interested in creating content than re-reading content I wrote - but it is flattering that some considered the content worth keeping. It resides in database backups, and as elusive time becomes available, I may bring that content here to OpenDepth.com.

And that brings up the repurposing of OpenDepth.com. Where once it was just private meanderings, OpenDepth.com will expand into just about everything I feel like writing about. In this way, the business and its blog become separate entities. What I may say personally may even run contrary to what is necessary for the business at times - I don't expect that, I don't hope for that, but I have been around long enough in The Real World (tm) to know that the official position comes with politics in strategic partnerships, etc.

KnowProSE LLC

And it isn't as if KnowProSE LLC will ever have much sway in the world of ominous bloggers, website design, or anything that it does. Maybe I'm wrong about that. I'm not out to become the next Amazon.com, the next Google.com... if success comes to that degree, I may be happy. Or maybe not. Either way, I'll deal with it as it comes.

Plots for world domination aren't behind KnowProSE LLC. It is something that will allow me to channel my energy in my own ways so that when I have less energy, I'll have a little battery that will provide for my eventual retirement and, yes, funeral. My father, despite his holdings and hard work throughout his life, somehow managed to not have enough money in his bank account to cover his funeral and estate expenses. As talented and skilled as he was, he could never seem to get ahead, barely breaking even. In the end, he didn't break even. I intend to. I plan to. That's the morbid side of KnowProSE LLC.

The lighter side is that, hopefully, it will allow for the right projects that will allow the world to be a better place - either in little things or big things. Getting to a position where it can pick and choose its projects is the first business priority. Crawling before walking, walking before running, running before flying.

OpenDepth.com

And this blog becomes more about my eccentric and eclectic thoughts, as noteworthy or boring as they may be. It's important for me to write. The last week for me has been like the filling of a balloon. So tonight, I write.

Rebirth, Part II.

published by Taran Rampersad on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 01:08

As I mentioned before, I'm rethinking the KnowProSE.com site. To do that, I have had to analyze what I was doing with it for the last 9 years and what my motivations were. I'm also trying to figure out what the new motivations are.

The last 9 years were an exploration that started a little before KnowProSE.com. I'd already bought the domain for a company I was starting in Florida. And it followed me around for a while - 'Knowledge Professional, Software Engineer'. KnowProSE. And then I started branching out whenever something interested me - and so the taxonomy became as focused as some accuse my life of being. It's not my fault that some have focal baths while I have focal showers. I get to connect the water however I wish.

So here I am, late at night, considering the many twists and turns. Having just read Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success, there is a bit of a reaffirmation of the way I approach subjects. I don't want to lose that. And I realize, too, that I can't keep doing that on one site. On one blog. It just becomes... unmanageable. And that is something I learned - something, perhaps, others avoided by conforming to the wisdom of the day as preached by the bloggers-for-bloggers.

But I got to learn exactly why it doesn't work whereas others just went with the conventional wisdom. I have an advantage - hard won, but an advantage nonetheless.