{"id":40,"date":"2007-06-05T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/tripalot-plans\/"},"modified":"2011-08-25T09:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T21:47:12","slug":"tripalot-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripalot.com\/travis\/blog\/tripalot-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tripalot Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all those weeks working on <a title=\"Trex Launch (2007-05-24)\" href=\"\/travis\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/trex-launch\/\">Trex launch<\/a> I find myself lifting my head out of the song-after-song-after-song tedium and focusing (or at least trying to focus) on the Big Picture.<\/p>\n<p>What do I want <strong>Tripalot<\/strong> to be?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A technological practice ground?<\/li>\n<li>A diary (for myself)?<\/li>\n<li>A self-centered encyclopedia?<\/li>\n<li>A portfolio?<\/li>\n<li>A marketing mechanism (for my music and other creations)?<\/li>\n<li>A place to meet and keep in touch with people?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really don&#039;t know at this point. Right now, it&#039;s a little bit of all of the above. It doesn&#039;t really do any of those things very well, though. I could go into details (for example, I would want a diary to be chronological) but I won&#039;t (or, for example, I&#039;d want a portfolio to present different views to designers, musicians, writers, etc.) because that would bore you (or, for example, a marketing mechanism would have search-engine friendly urls and a much &#034;hipper&#034; design)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, I kinda wish Tripalot.com were unified. If I refer to a person, song, or piece of gear on any of my sites, I&#039;d want to be able to easily link to a page which discusses that subject. For example, in my Tripecac site, if I type &#034;<strong>&lt;album&gt;Zipit&lt;\/album&gt;<\/strong>&#034; within some xml, I know that that will turn into a link to the Zipit album page; it doesn&#039;t matter which page I am editing at the time. I want that easy linking from any page. Like here in this blog; I want to be able to reference a Tripecac album like this: <strong>&lt;album artist=&#034;Tripecac&#034;&gt;Zipit&lt;\/album&gt;<\/strong>. Does this mean I need to convert all my sites to xml? I don&#039;t know. It&#039;s an intriguing idea.<\/p>\n<p>I also wish I could edit my sites from any computer (not just my main computer). However, that means doing one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>share<\/strong> the sites&#039; master files among all my computers (which requires me to port the publishing tools as well)<\/li>\n<li>migrate all sites to <strong>Web 2.0 <\/strong>technology (which requires tons of work and research and doesn&#039;t feel very future-proof)<\/li>\n<li>connect to pc w\/ master files via <strong>ssh<\/strong>, edit via <strong>vi<\/strong> (which is clunky compared to my favorite text editor)<\/li>\n<li>connect to pc w\/ master files via <strong>remote desktop<\/strong> (which is slow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also need to figure out how to add <strong>user comments<\/strong> to the various pages. That&#039;s pretty much a staple nowadays, at least for information-heavy sites like mine. I don&#039;t really have a clear picture of how I can add user comments without switching to Web 2.0, though. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>So I need to do some thinking and visualizing in the next few days (or weeks or months). I need to decide the future of Tripalot. Sounds like a theme from a fantasy book, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all those weeks working on Trex launch I find myself lifting my head out of the song-after-song-after-song tedium and focusing (or at least trying to focus) on the Big Picture. What do I want Tripalot to be? A technological practice ground? A diary (for myself)? A self-centered encyclopedia? A portfolio? 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