Shifting Things Around
I have always liked writing this blog. It has changed throughout the years (as close as I can tell, I just hit like 3.5 years), but I have always tried to keep it at least related to tech, life, or really, anything. I like posting long-form articles, but I also like shorter posts, link posts, and the like.
Also, I just got a shiny new domain! I have always loved my initials (Mitchell Patrick Hislop - MPH), and have wanted them for my domain since I started. Yesterday, I pulled the trigger on mph.name - and immediatley migrated my site to use it. The old one will still work, thanks to the magic of .htaccess files.
With this change, I am going to tweak my focus. I will be talking less about the tech echo chamber - sites like TechCrunch, BetaBeat, and the like handle that far better than I do. I will provide opinion or commentary, or link to the ones that really stand out.
What I will be writing about more is web development, projects I do, startups, thoughts that I have, and the like. I realize that I was not adding a ton to the conversation before. That will hopefully change.
In doing this, I will also be re-publishing a few of my old articles - ones that I really, really liked, but are no longer accessible.
I am going to go for more original content, and less echoing of ideas that you have already heard. This will be seen coming up next week, when I am at CES 2012. Sure, there will still be posts from it, but I will not be live blogging the pressers (I will still tweet them - I’m @mitchellhislop).
You could call this a bit of a re-invention, a re-launch. You would not be wrong. Since I started blogging, my focus has shifted. Back then, I was a wide-eyed kid in marketing, just starting school. Now, I am a slightly more jaded web developer, who doesn’t want to talk about how to use Twitter anymore.
