After some discussion with a few people I’ve started working out what I want to do around publishing this blog. The original plan was to scrap it, however I’ve reconsidered and decided on a new course of action.

First, I’m going to move away from Mephisto to WordPress. Mephisto is Rails and therefore very nice, sexy and smooth on the inside, but I just need something I don’t need to babysit as much. I’ve found a few techniques that preserve content and comments through that transition, so I’m going to give that a whirl and see if it works. Expect breakage soon!

Next, I’m going to firm up the focus of what this blog is for: there are over 30 categories right now. In future, I’ll focus on tagging everything correctly (and making the tag cloud accessible), but there will be just five categories: Business, Technology, Trends, Announcements and Events.

The first three will concern the respective angles around innovation in the software industry. Note, I mean “software industry”, not just “web industry”. I’ve been too web-focused in the last two years, and whilst that’s where most of the interesting stuff is, I want to broaden the appeal a little.

‘Business’ and ‘Technology’ items will be news-orientated and ‘Trends’ a little more “polemic”. ‘Announcements’ will be stuff about Vagueware, although the quantity of announcements right now is going to be quite low. The last category, ‘Events’, will be the very slightly event-whore side of me coming through - I don’t expect more than a couple of posts a month in that category.

And I promise this is the last post about what I’m going to do with this blog!

The new main site for Vagueware is almost ready to roll, it just needs some more content writing before I hit the switch. What is currently at vagueware.com will move, and I’ll make an announcement about all that (very exciting) stuff in due course.

Any questions, throw me a line via paul (at) vagueware dot com.