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#385 – Blog Moon Rising
Blog Moon Rising
The blog is starting to change … slowly. After 14 months, Uncle Tilty and his army of technicians – a rag-tag crew I picture as a cross between the Best Buy breakroom, the guys monitoring the missile silos at Strategic Air Command, and the revolutionaries led by Denis Leary in Demolition Man – have finally freed up the time to work on the blog.
The one change made so far is the reason some of you haven’t seen new entries since the NBC Head’s-Up championship. Please read on for the explanation.
We changed the blogging program to WordPress, which will make possible other changes contemplated. Apparently however, it somehow changed the URL or RSS or whatever acronym allows people to receive the blog without physically going to the site and reading it there/here. When I told the Best Buy/SAC/Demolition Man guy, he made the reasonable though paradoxical suggestion that I inform readers of the changes and the need for them to reload their links (for readers not seeing this because you haven’t received the feed since February I’m relying on telepathy).
But for those of you who are able to read this, here is what will be going down:
1. The blog will have a category list along the right side so you can look up subjects that particularly interest you.
Unfortunately, I will have to limit myself to pretty general subjects (e.g., poker strategy, Wynn Classic, 2007 WSOP) and some frequent or high interest subjects (e.g., Chris Ferguson, Clonie Gowen, Mike Matusow). I don’t exactly understand the reason, but my initial list of categories for just the last month contains over 50 items (e.g., Kathy Liebert, men’s room in Caesar’s Palace, Cole South, FTOPS, my dog Harpo). Zack (or Zac, or Zach or whatever the tech guy’s name was) told me there was a problem if the category list was too long. Imagining that categorizing all my Shannen Elizabeth posts could wipe out Full Tilt’s Razz cash games, I’ve worked on paring down my list and categorizing past posts.
2. The blog will be able to accept comments.
I’m a bit vague on the specifics, but there will be space to make comments. I will then have the opportunity to approve them (i.e., prevent spam or inappropriate material from appearing) and, I hope, respond.
This was my original goal in setting up the Full Tilt Poker Blog forum but it was just too time-consuming to participate in that and continue writing the blog. This should work better.
3. I’ll put up links to an updated biography and FAQ.
4. I’m pretty sure I’m going to post the articles I wrote about the February 2006 high-stakes games between Andy Beal and the top cash-game pros.
I get hundreds of people asking me how to get those. When I sold the articles to Bluff magazine, I sold only the magazine rights; I retained all the other rights. It’s going to be a big job to post it. I want it to be nicely formatted, illustrated, plus I want to give it a good introduction and make some additional comments. I’m also toying with the idea of providing an audio version. (In fact, I’d like to do audio versions of some blogs and make them available on MP3or similar formats.) There will be a link on the blog’s home page for all these goodies.
I can’t tell you the dates for the completion of these items. Some details are still under discussion, my life has gotten crazy-complicated and I’m trying to get it sorted out, I’m behind in the blog writing, the tech guys have an online poker site to attend to, etc. But I will keep writing – I committed to stay on the Blog until the end of the World Series - and will try to make it even better than it’s been.
I have been very proud of The Full Tilt Poker Blog over the last 14 months. I’m averaging about a post per day, a ridiculous pace that alarms me just thinking about it. The length of the post is longer that Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. That’s a comparison for quantity purposes not quality, but I have been pleased in general with the quality. And I feel I’ve really risen to the occasion many, many times. So I will keep doing what I am doing and will try to do even better in the future.
