Another new direction

I should be revising, so naturally this is the time when I write a blog post.

My "energy term" is coming to an end.  Frankly, there's so much information to be known, I'll be digesting it for a very long time.  But it has led me to think about the nature of this website.

For a long time I've not been happy with the structure of the main site.  For those of you who are not familiar with "Site Build It!", the host and quasi content management system I use, it very much pushes the builder towards a static website full of articles.  This is great in some circumstances, but in this particular "niche", I've often just felt like I'm writing a not so helpful version of Wikipedia.

I'd like to make howtopowertheworld.com into a fully functioning blog, probably Wordpress based (sorry, Google).  I'd prefer to discuss news articles, current affairs, speculate, and do all that discussion-based stuff which is very difficult when every page in a website has to be a "keyword focussed content page".

The blogging platform is just easier, more familiar and more in line with my aims for the site.  I'd like to continue to educate and share my views, but the website as it stands feels more like "this is a wind turbine" than "this is what I think of the new UK feed in tariff."  Both are useful, but Wikipedia is certainly better at the former, and there's no need to reinvent the wheel when there's so much else to be done.

This blog illustrates the kind of thing I mean.  It's an excellent blog, and I fully recommend reading it.

I'm not sure what I'll do with the existing articles.  I may recycle useful bits into blog posts, I may decide to just store them on my hard drive until I feel able to beat Wikipedia!

I welcome your comments on what you'd like to see, the topics to be discussed, and so forth.

Actually, I think I've just worked out something major my site currently lacks: participation.  I want you to comment on my posts, to challenge me, to engage me, to make me think, to ask questions.  Discussion is far more useful to everyone.

This format will also allow me to post more regularly, as in the current system writing a page takes an absolute age (rhyme unintentional).

The current website package expires in June.  I'd like to have made the switch before that, but if not, there will be a new site from June onwards.

Michael