April 29, 2006

• WhenWordsCollide Blog Index

   

  

  

  It’s already almost halfway through 2006, so I just updated my “Blog Index” which is in the sidebar or the “custom module” on the left of my blogsite under the “AllThingsMike Universe” header. This is where most people put their virtual pets, blinkies, and tarot card readings, etc. I use it as another index for my ever expanding AllThingsMike Universe, which comprises 17 major and minor websites and a myriad number of blog entries. The “Blog Index” is under the logo/links for my major sites, the Jukebox This Week, and the Internet Island Topic Post index. The Header says: “Xanga: Interesting Posts From the Past On: WhenWordsCollide”. 

  
  There are 97 separate entries divided among 13 separate topics. A lot of bloggers index their sites, and this is a great way of cataloging all the various entries by theme, so that interested parties can surf the site all that easier. Check out some of these older posts if you are a new reader to this site, or if you are a longtime reader and didn’t realize it existed. I don’t blog like a lot of folks. Each “entry” is more like a magazine article than a daily accounting, and I have “departments” under which these “articles” reside. The sidebar is to the left. I won’t copy/paste the whole thing here in this announcement, and since this is an announce ment, and not a regular blog entry, there are no comments. Please continue to comment on Friday’s entry with the latest “Video Blog”. I’m quite proud of my latest video offering. The breakdown for my index is as follows. I’ll give a brief description of the types of posts to be found under each heading.

  Photoposts
  Once a week I try to feature a themed PhotoPost. Lately I’ve been showing photos from my “Pacific Coast Highway” series. Each post consists of about 10 or 12 photos, each with a descriptive caption.

  News and Opinion Entries
  I haven’t done any of these in a while, since I started scaling back my posts to one every other day. Besides the semi regular “News and Notes” columns, which aren’t archived yet, I have written about half a dozen topical entries, and they can be found here.

  Art
  These posts consist of material that is featured on my “Yes, But Is It Art? Gallery” website, and usually feature my own computer composites or drawings.

  MiscellaneousEnties
  Entries which don’t fit in another heading can be found here. Early entries which featured video (on which the links are now disabled) will eventually show up in the MikeVideo section.

  From AllThingsMike
  I just categorized these posts which directly deal with different sections of my website.

  MikeVideo
  The posts on which I feature MikeVideo from my YouTube site are found here.

  Mike’s Video Blog
  Links to all three existing VideoBlog entries. Soon I will disable the small video players at the bottom of the site because they only slow down the loading process, and my page loads slowly enough as it is.

  Presentation Poetry Posts
  On the original “ElectricPoetry” site, I would “present” each poem with graphics and music. I sometimes do the same on this blog.

  ElectricPoetry Posts
  While you can find all the poems I’ve written since the age of 14 that I have transcribed online on my ElectricPoetry site, in chronological order, each week I post an ElectricPoetry Post on this blog, with similar or linked poetry on a theme.

  Short Stories  & Serialized Novels and Reminiscences
  Each of these sections feature my prose. The ongoing serializations can be found here, as well as individual stories and my “reminiscences”. The major works are:

  
  The Books of the Realizations
  My Sexual History
  Goin’ Crazy
  The Frat House
  “Dear Misanthrope: My Life With Pat
  Childhood in Los Angeles

  Grownups with Featured Content Entries: and Socrates Cafe Entries:
  I haven’t created a section yet for my own Internet Island posts, themed to my blogring, but I do post links to individual entries I’ve written for the Grownups With Featured Content and the Socrates Cafe blogring.

  If you don’t have anything better to do, please check out my index, and go exploring. As I wrote first in 2001 on my “Message from the Webmaster” and have repeated many times since:

  “I invite you to go exploring, and to read me like a book. Come back often, the images entice, and the ultimate truth is to be revealed in the words. This is not a website to speed through on your way somewhere else. It is a long lazy afternoon under a tree with a good book.”

  Thanks for listening,
  Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool

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  (Edit 4:56pm pdt: What the hey. I enabled comments. I already have 17 on the last post. I still want people to see it if they haven’t, and some folks only look at and comment on the most recent post on a blog, but if you’ve already commented there, you might want to comment about my index or blogsite indices in general, so the comments are “live”. MFN)

  
  

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