Dead week has set in and sleep has taken a vacation.  Yet I oddly find myself procrastinating not with rest or trivial internet surfing (okay, maybe a little), but instead with the realization of multiple web projects that have taken the backburner until now.  I’ve come to the conclusion that attempting to make all-inclusive things is often a bad choice as it dilutes the end result, in this case a end-all blog.  I’ve used this for a wide host of purposes…blogging about architecture, life, music, etc.  What I’ve produced is an odd amalgamation of juxtaposed topics that ultimately have little to no relation between one another.  While this might be fine for my own self and what few friends may actually read this, it doesn’t serve the goal of actually drawing traffic with meaningful discussion.  If I were to not aspire to this goal then I should’ve never left Livejournal in early high school.

Therefore I’m beginning to break apart and create blogs for each of a small handful of categories that I wish to explore and investigate more thoughtfully.  Below is a list of all web projects that I’m currently building and hope to bring to full realization within the next 3-6 months:

• collos.us - A blog oriented towards architectural discussion, thoughts, and the like.  It will often pose larger over-arching questions on life as attempting to write about purely architecture would be denying the very variety that makes its study so unique.  I’m still brainstorming further areas that it can become involved (architecture competitions, etc), but for the time being the blog portion is live so the thoughts filling my brain can be digitized and shared.  A customized design will be introduced soon, likely over winter break.
• thestereolove.com - I currently own the domain but am holding off on hosting it for the moment.  It will ultimately serve as part music blog, but more importantly as a platform for the social discovery and rating of music and playlists.  It’s a long term project in the works that likely won’t be up until this summer, but in the meantime the work in progress can be viewed here.  It currently should display a line or two of text that is the ID3 tags of an mp3 file pulled out of another music blog’s RSS feed.  ”Very excited.”
• robertnealan.com/blog - Oh shit.  Wordpress?  What the hell?  Yes, I know.  It’s not that I have anything against Tumblr, but I will be migrating my blogging over to Wordpress soon so as to afford more flexibility in the design and experiments in using it as a CMS platform for web development purposes.  I still need to look into whether or not I can feed each post into my Tumblr account automatically, but if it’s possible I will make it so.  (Funny seeing how my Tumblr currently feeds into my old Blogger).  Additionally, it’ll likely contain progressively less ramblings on life and become more oriented towards architectural investigations and my thesis as I begin to delve into the mysteries of Manhattan.
• kefea.com - Currently you’ll see a demo page for the Lemonstand App platform.  A project with the grand vision of uniting local coffee everywhere, this is my first serious endeavour into the world of online business.  Don’t hold your breath, but the design is nearly done and I’ll be attempting to begin organizing the business aspects by the end of winter break.

Additionally I do own another domain that is currently unhosted, but will eventually serve as a platform for political commentary, change, and discussion.  We live in a time where political events are becoming more and more alarming while public discussion and activism grow increasingly lackluster.  This is something that I believe needs to and can be changed.