I've been thinking a bit recently about the title and ostensible purpose of this blog. Now, mind you, this blog is largely a cathartic exercise on my part, not by any means an important bit of... well, anything. But still, I like things to have some sort of order, consistency and meaning. Originally, I started this thing talking about the various facets of life in an Open Source company. It was intended to be very much my personal expression of my personal philosophy, centered around how that philosophy related to running my business. With a bit of other hijinx thrown in whenever I got bored.
Since then, of course, the business itself has gone away, leaving in its wake the TurtolCMS software project. And this blog (or at least it's tagline) with no clear meaning. I'm no longer running an open source business. Yes, as I've hinted, I intend to, and have several irons in the fire (both iron and fire being Open Source, naturally). But I'm not, at present, actually running an open source company. I'm managing an Open Source project, but that (at present) drives no income, and without income there really can't be said to be any business.
So, do I evolve the direction of this thing to follow along with whatever I'm doing right now? Could be boring, but really I guess I'm doing that already, as I've had to post something from time to time, just to brain-dump. Eventually, I suppose, it will evolve back into a blog about my (next) Open Source business. But how long before that happens? Will I still care?
Or do I revolutionize it entirely into... what else? I don't think the intarweb needs another site that links to other sites for the sake of it. I'm just not into that. Not enough catharsis.
So, coming up:
Another book review (actually, two, but combined into one) not at all related to software, Open Source or Business, just because I wanna; and a post commenting on a story run on another (more widely read) blog, but not just so I can link to it; and the announcement of another release of the TurtolCMS, any day now.