Cabeeb

December 2, 2008

Welcome Back, Cabeeb

Note: This post is regarding the launch of the previous design of Cabeeb.com, and therefore most of this information is out of date. You’ve been forewarned.

One can welcome oneself back, can’t one? When it’s done in a rhetorical sense, then I think yes. Yes one can.

It’s been nearly four months since I’ve made a post on Cabeeb.com. Absolutely inexcusable, if you ask me. The lapse is due largely in part to my blogging energies being focused on redesigning and rethinking this site from the ground up rather than trying to feed fresh content onto what was already there.

Therefore, four months later, I give you Cabeeb 2.0, in which I decided to completely change up the format with the new design. To help differentiate the content, the single pipeline approach has been done away with. Instead of having one stream of incoming content, I figured it would be better to complicate everything and have several. This serves many purposes. First, I’d hope that having lots of different content will make the site more interesting to visitors. Not only is there more to consume should you so choose, but every time you visit, hopefully at least a few of the streams will have new posts. Which ties directly into purpose 2: it’ll make it easier and more enjoyable for me to put up new stuff. Maybe I don’t feel like writing a full post, but I’ve got some video footage to post, or a new book that I can put up. I can, and I will. So, what are these new sections? Oh, I’m so glad you asked.

Articles
These are the posts that, up to this point have completely made up my blog. Poignant thoughts, intriguing conceptualizations, bone-jarring revelations; these are just a few of things that you should not expect in these articles.

Video Blogs
A new sensation in my world. Instead of writing something, why don’t I SHOW you?! Or better yet, just uninterestingly and monotonously say exactly what I would have otherwise written. Hey, it’s a work in progress, so give me a break.

Random Videos
Videos that I think deserve their place on Cabeeb, but don’t fit into the “blog” category. Most of these will be short clips of something stupid or ridiculous happening. Maybe even stupidly ridiculous. We can only hope.

Archive Post of the Week
I’ve been writing on this blog for over two and a half years. Most of the stuff I wrote way back then sucks, but there are a few gems. Why not capitalize on work that I’ve already done? I can’t think of a good reason, either.

Musical Addiction
I get addicted to songs to varying degrees. And like any true junkie, I want to share it with all my friends. To consolidate space, I will hereby redirect you to the official explanation of the Musical Addictions section.

Reading
I read quite a bit and I want to tell you all about it. So, as I’m reading a book, I’ll put up occasional updates/thoughts about it, and then write a quick post-thought after I finish. I’m not exactly sure how it’ll work, but work it will. Trust me.

That’s all I’ve got for now, but I’ll be adding even more sections as time goes by. I’ve got lots of ideas that I want to implement, but I decided to pass on them for launch. And generally speaking, there’s still tons to be done in functionality. I haven’t really worked on the searching or archive post navigation at all. And I am aware that the design is very stale and unpolished, which I’m going to shortly rectify. I’m all about function over form when it comes to my blog, so I wanted to get it working before I made it pretty.

So there you have it. Cabeeb is back; hopefully with a fury. Feedback is very, very welcome and appreciated. Unless I don’t like it; then it won’t be welcome nor appreciated.

Love.

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