w00t!

This is a rare event, so rare I had to capture it for posterity. Ephemeral, and fleeting, for this moment I'm enjoying it!

Nutbar

You know, the guy is a total nutbar.

moving forward

Since I last posted, I've resigned, finished my apprenticeships, flagged a new corporation, finished working my shares portfolio up to 9990 live blogs, and finally worked my assets to the place where I can now focus on voting and dead-reporting to increase karma and sigma. To wit:

SME

Given the delays involved in major upgrades to the game, including the introduction of Industry Captains, I've decided to hire Subject Matter Experts to review and redesign the industries. The Law industry is complete, and Libraries is underway, with several more on the plate.

Forever

Yes, that's what it's been ... forever since I posted.

So much has gone on behind the scenes and right out in the spotlight. Newest project: Subject Matter Experts.

More later!

Mozambique Politics

Oy! A duplicate industry. I'm fixing that, and also a few industries that have no blogs according to BlogShare's Princes of Ideas. How? By fleshing out the Bolivia industry — specifically by adding the nine administrative departments of the country and adding the capital city for each.

Once this has been done, the duplicate Mozambique Politics industry will disappear (becoming La Paz Department), as well as Sudanese and Bailey's Crossing.

To make the MP vote disappear on the only blog in that industry, I'm going to have to reindex it, some time after 15:00 system time today.

The "industries" Industry

I've added some blogs to the Index in the last while, and also added some new categories (industries):

Tunbridge Wells (Kent, England, UK)
Usage (Grammar)
Guadeloupe (Caribbean)
Leesburg (Virginia)
Sumedang (West Java, Indonesia)
Kuningan (West Java, Indonesia)
Ciamis (West Java, Indonesia)
Tasikmalaya (West Java, Indonesia)
Lung-Related Conditions
Celiac Disease
Imperia (Liguria, Italy)

But what I thought would be a quick voting session on some recently added blogs has led me down a path I've started down before: looking at BlogShare's "Industry" industries. This morning, like before, I've looked around a bit, done research, and been stopped by seeming contradictions and discrepancies, both in the hierarchy and in the industry descriptions. This morning, unlike before, I'd just like to tear my hair out over this. It's going to have to be cleaned up. I'm going to have to do it.

Here's a wee example: We have no Automotive Industry, but there are automotive industry blogs in the Transportation Industry category. Well, that makes some sense, except the Transportation Industry description neglects to include automobiles in it:

Blogs in this category discuss the transportation industry, such as airlines, buses, trains, and watercraft, as well as commercial transportation industries.

I considered just adding "automobiles" to the list, but then considered that while the airlines industry is included here (seems reasonable), we also have a separate Aviation Industry category.

And then there's our "Manufacturing Industry" category. The automotive industry is certainly a manufacturing industry. Perhaps it could go there. Or perhaps "Manufacturing Industry" should be transformed into a parent industry, with several of the industries we have listed as its children, and other parent industries created, such as "Entertainment Industry," as parent to the existing Film and Music Industry categories. Or perhaps, well, I should just tear my hair out.