Evolution at the DJ

Yes, I haven’t been posting much. I have been extremely busy at the DJ. Essentially what I’ve been doing is prepping this for primetime. This started years ago as a promotion for our product, but didn’t go far as such. Then I turned it into a proof of concept, a demonstration that we could do interesting aggregated book content over a long term. When I finally convinced the DJ folks that this was a good thing—a process that has literally taken years—they wanted music and movies and kids’ stuff in there in addition to books, so I expanded it. Over the last few months it has been deliberately evolving into a site that we could port over to the main DJ site, a books and entertainment friendly aggregation page from a company whose brand is renowned for its aggregation abilities. I’ve been getting back-end mechanisms into place, learning the pre-existing formats of the extant site, you name it. At the moment I am personally RSSing about 1000 pages a day, which is fun, but time-consuming. So, I haven’t been posting much. Thank God this last month or two has been the cusp of the debate season!

We are going live next week at the latest. If it turns out to be popular, it will redefine a lot of how I spend my workday (although it will have no effect on my NJ, i.e., the Night Job of debate). This is pretty exciting to me. I love new stuff, and I love obsessing over new stuff.

I've been streaming a feed of the present blog to my various pages, and I'll figure out a way to continue it when it moves. You might want to keep an occasional eye on it. You might find it entertaining.