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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

This Isn't My Site
Short Version

The longer posts that have occasionally appeared on this page (meaning the Rumours and Ruminations blog) will generally be appearing in the main body of the website from now on (usually on the revamped In Depth page), leaving this page devoted to the more bloggy and inconsequential. I just thought I'd let people know, because this page has become sort of an unintended alternative front-end to Cinephobia since I started it. You should always check the main page if you're interested in seeing the latest things I've written. Specifically, today I have posted an essay on Pauline Kael that probably would have been posted here in months gone past.

Long Version

This part of my page has kind of a tortured history, and I realise that the organisation of my website has gotten a little confusing and diluted as a result, so I'd thought I'd rethink and restate how the whole Rumours and Rumination page fits into Cinephobia generally.

When I originally started the Rumours and Ruminations subsection of my page, it was a intended just to carry occasional musings on film news and rumours, and was just another part of my regular site. I hardly wrote anything for it, and I didn't do so regularly until I decided that the perfect way to set up this corner of the site was as a blog. While I wasn't terribly keen on blogs per se, they seemed a natural fit for the kind of content I envisaged for this part of the page.

I soon found the format liberating - it was a fun, easy way to post not only the short newsy pieces that had always been the intention of the R&R column, but more general internet finds and throwaway bits. As a result, I started posting R&R stuff much more often.

After a few months, I got an approach from Luke Buckmaster over at In Film to start carrying the column on his site: because his site is much more widely read than mine, it seemed an ideal way to reach a larger audience. The side-effect, though, was it encouraged me to post more of my longer articles through the blog, because that's what Luke carried: as a result, the content of my page skewed so that the blog started to become the main game, with most of my stuff appearing on it, and the main page carrying only reviews and archived copies of my blog pieces (when I got around to it). My suspicion that this was confusing the focus of the site has been confirmed by the fact that some of those on the net who link to me link here, rather than the main page. While I appreciate the inbound links, I think this reflects the fact that the blog had wavered a bit form my original intention, and was becoming too much of a separate identity.

A couple of things have led me to try to redress this. In the end, the main pieces Luke was interested in carrying were the longer ones anyway: so from late last year, he's just been carrying them as feature articles and has dropped the whole idea of R&R as a separate column. Meanwhile, over the last few weeks I've revamped the whole part of my main site that was devoted to longer articles, archiving a lot of the longer pieces there. From now on, starting with my Pauline Kael piece, this is where that sort of thing will be appearing. This will leave this page as something closer to what I originally intended: an occasional pseudo-blog, rather than a separate front door to my page. It will focus more on news and the more scattershot opinion pieces, leaving the meatier stuff on the main page.

Just wanted to clear that up.

Posted by Stephen Rowley @ 29.3.06

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