Michael god bless him has been trying very hard for years now to develop ideas (he’s really good at ideas, which is an unbelievable quality); his ideas (and he’s said this on several occasions) is to try and push people to go to his archives. He’s helped with developing the livesearch, or at least brought it to my attention. He did stuff to get the live Archives working, and then on his site he’s got a fantastic implementation for you to look at all his archives without actually leaving the cosy front page. Unfortunately the more I think about this the more I realise that he’s actually fighting a loosing battle.

What am I talking about? Put simply I read a great deal of stuff online. How much, well I’ve got over 200 sites in my OPML file at the moment, and it gets bigger every day. It’s honestly getting to the stage where I can’t keep up with all the sites. Lately I’ve been worse than usual, but that’s more to do with the fact that I’ve been STUPIDLY busy, mainly trying to sort this book out. I can’t actually keep up with everything and sometimes I’d rather read something a little while later.

Now the way I read blogs and I’m assuming that’s also how many people read them as well (might be making a big mistake but this is what I think), we read the freshest stuff. If we’ve missed a couple of posts it’s not the end of the world really, we might check it out. Now what happens when we come into a site that’s being published for over a year now. We’ve missed a lot of stuff. Does it matter? Maybe not, probably not. However for me there are certain sites that I wouldn’t mind reading and getting to know what the deal is really. I wouldn’t mind checking out the first season of Binary Bonsai or Chris J Davis or Avalonstar or Ifelse or Noscope or…and the list goes on. And that’s where this book comes in.

It’s a different kind of book. I guess what started off as something for me and maybe my parents and a couple of friends, is now part of an experiment. Is anyone actually interested in this stuff as a keepsake? My initial reaction is no, not really. So what happens if I actually make it into a professionally put together product. What happens if I enhance the book in several ways, not cut corners and provide it at a completely affordable price. Would that make a difference? I guess time will tell and I’m always interested in new ideas.

The unexpected thing was that this little experiment of mine has actually planted a seed in my head. A seed which is growing into something I didn’t really expect or can’t understand why it didn’t come to me before. So while this book is effectively the first one to come out under the Broken Kode banner, it won’t be the last. What’s more is that I won’t be the only writer that gets things published under the Broken Kode banner.