Creeva’s World 2.0

First and fore­most the site is for me. It allows me to save my poetry, short stores and thoughts online. It allows me to delve into tech­ni­cal issues that may be insight­ful or inter­est­ing to oth­ers. Some things I write and put together just because I can’t find them any­where else and want to save oth­ers the rework of track­ing down some­thing that took me hours/days to piece together.

It is my vent­ing post. I can release myself with­out reper­cus­sion and free write. When I was in col­lege (short trip that didn’t last) I was a dual major — cre­ative writing/music per­for­mance. I rarely how­ever pickup the trum­pet these days. The very least it allows me to write to some degree and pushes me still to have more infor­ma­tion up and around here.

One thing I real­ized though about a year ago is that I put a ton of infor­ma­tion online sign­ing up for dif­fer­ent ser­vices and accounts — using these ser­vices for awhile then usage dries up or goes in spurts. Now if a friend asks you if you have a cer­tain movie or read a cer­tain book it was a pain to direct them for exam­ple to your all­con­sum­ing site so they could keep track of you.

I had decided to start on a path of aggre­gat­ing all my infor­ma­tion to my blog, my diggs, my twits, my pic­tures, my youtube movies, and every­thing else. Some peo­ple refer to this as a lifestream (hence the Creeva’s Lifestream logo above). The prob­lem with most lifestreams is they are just an RSS aggre­ga­tion that you have to click and fol­low through. A lot of these are nice but for the most part non-functional as a site within itself any­more then a portal.

I wanted some­thing that if I was inter­ested in some­one I could view most things at a glance and have one site to search (though the lijit appli­ca­tion on the left side there helps search­ing the other sites and does dou­ble duty as a links sec­tion to me). So in some ways (in geek terms) this is the slash­dot dot of Creeva (Brent).

You find me inter­est­ing great, you don’t? Quit read­ing then. I’m not going to pan­der to a cer­tain demo­graphic as it negates the need for this site which is about enter­tain­ing myself and writ­ing out things that I think oth­ers may have an inter­est in. I know most peo­ple won’t be inter­ested in my fam­ily issues, but some of the ones who do won’t be inter­ested in my tech arti­cles. I attempted at one time to run dif­fer­ent blogs on dif­fer­ent sub­jects to keep every­thing all neat and tidy. What I learned though was I got too dis­tracted by where and what I was going to write that I actu­ally did much less writ­ing. So now (until I get a pay­ing gig to write and even then this site will remain the same) you have to put up with the good and the bad, the inter­est­ing and the uneventful.

I applaud you that have taken an inter­est in me and read to some extent. Hope­fully this jour­ney will con­tinue for a long long time.