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On the About page of this blog I quote Paul Boutin and hint at a disbelief in blogs as a medium for individuals.
Although at a certain I have been a so-called blowhard blogger, my background is different and I originate from the CMS(1). A scene where you slap lots of content on a site, have extensive link lists, maybe even run regularly news, linking to blogs, and try to build a community, most of the time in some kind of forum.

To be entirely honest, I never really liked the blogs as a platform option.

So there certainly is some irony in the fact that I will not only edit Forever Geek from now on, but also run BloggerTalks.

BloggerTalks certainly will be an interesting ride as I hope to present some interviews with people from less known corners of the blogosphere, but also have the desire to interview some blogging celebrities or celebrities who network actively online but do not blog. Besides, I hope at times to have contrasting opinions on the future of blogging.

Possible future plans for Forever Geek hit closer home for me as it certainly is a consideration to overhaul the site and maybe even not use WordPress in the future. The plan right now is to present Forever Geek more as a magazine than as a blog and although WordPress offers lots of great configuration possibilities, it will be a challenge to reboot the site, especially with several thousands of articles in the archives.
Right now the site is a mix of geekiness which could (almost) be generated by adding several feeds of major blog and covers a several popular topics such as hardware, gaming and entertainment, some sort of Lifehacker, Joystiq and Gizmodo cocktail. This obviously is a very healthy mix of topics, especially when spiced up with some celebrity geekiness such as is the case at Forever Geek, but the broad cover area can also cause problems when trying to grow a platform.

In times of low CPM the easiest trick to grow a site, blog in to a magazine is to increase the amount of entries… and noise. Together with a growing number of entries the risk of losing regulars grows as they might not enjoy the number of entries in their favoured topic anymore or just lose interest because their feedreader becomes too noisy.

And that will be my challenge for Forever Geek: take the site to a new level, with more content, but without alienating the actual regulars. There are several options to do this but an in-depth analysis of both content and options over the next months will help us make a decision and then see if the site can be further developed in to a community.

1. Obviously blogs are CMS too, but I mean the *complete* packages(↩)