One Hundred to One Outnumbered. Against all odds.

One Hundred to One retiring soon

Well its been a good run. This blog has gone through multiple iterations and identities even though it has had one unifying theme running throughout. At the very first it covered a lot of my own involvement in the local Seattle music scene including my own bands and bands I was seeing like Boat. At a couple points random stuff was thrown in reflecting my personal various interests ranging from web development to politics.

When it first acquired the 100 to 1 monicker, it turned into a punk rock video blog for a couple years, as I reconnected with a genre of music that I personally feel is the most sincere. After that died out because I ran out of videos to post and wasn't paying as close attention, it turned into (mostly) an infographics blog for a little while.

For roughly the past year, 100 to 1 has been most blatantly what it was all along: a repository for my own personal thoughts and discoveries, a way for me to store things I didn't want to forget, and share some things that I thought were worth promoting (like the midwest punk movement right now including Direct Hit!, The Dopamines, and Mixtapes). That is the one unifying theme - what am I thinking about right now. Although it has been rather self-focused, there have been some good conversations here, and things shared back and forth that have been quite productive, I feel.

Of course the biggest problem has been (and would remain if this blog were continuing) the lack of focus, the motley assemblage of various incongruent topics. One look at the categories cloud in the sidebar (where else do you see ".Net" on the same list with "Theology" and "Punk"?) lets you know the completely scattered assortment of posts over the years. Without knowing what to expect from a blog, you come to expect nothing really.

It's time to focus.

The first thing I want to shift gears and focus on is building more of a professional web presence here. Right now I am interested in developing my career and my professional contacts more than anything else. Besides my full-time job as a web developer, I also plan to continue working in the creative capacity I've been in recently. (Examples are the link sharing web application at www.somerby.net and the news feed-aggregation engine that underlies www.electionwatch.tv). All of this has led me to the conclusion that I may make the best use of www.scottshipp.com in a professional direction rather than a personal one. It may be a way to provide tutorials and help out less-experienced web developers, to connect with others in the industry, to offer freelance development and design services, to show off a portfolio of works, etc, etc. There are numerous possibilities. I haven't decided necessarily which one to take on first, but I feel this professional focus will better serve the space here.

For those of you who are not interested in this at all, take heart because I do eventually plan to create other topic-centered blogs in the future. If you keep your ear to the ground, you may one day learn that I have established a music review blog or a faith-centered blog. It's really up to how much time I have and where life leads.

Practically, though, what does this all mean?

It means that on June 1, this site will go away and all your RSS Readers will break when trying to pull the scottshipp.com feed, that's what it means!

If you want to keep in touch and don't have my email right now, just use scott at scottshipp.com. See you guys later!