Well, it has been a while, hasn’t it?

For a few years this blog has been more of a quick blog, mobile photos and such, than the long-form essay blog it began as.

Some changes have happened that will permit me to spend a bit more time on the blog at the moment, I’m happy to report.

For starters, my ex-employer ran into a cash flow problem and cut 2/3 of their staff, including me. It was somewhat unexpected but I helped develop the business plan that included eliminating my position and I’m satisfied that my leaving the operation was the correct course of action both for me and for the company.

I am actively looking for work and have been overhauling my various online resumé assets. Part of that initiative involved finally upgrading this blog from MT 3.x to MT 4.x, which went well enough. I have also wrangled the majority of my visual assets into one location, at long last.

Here is my online portfolio, as it stands. There are a couple-few things to do:

• build a comprehensive web-dev section; what I have ready to show is pretty damn weak
• cross-link scanned images of published articles to online-searchable text
• adding clips from my tenure at Now Playing magazine
• wrap a ‘best-of’ subset in embeddable presentation tools

I have been carefully reviewing online advertising for available positions over the past month and the average number of listings for which I am nominally qualified has been about ten per day. I like those odds.

As I wrap up the tasks above, I have begun several portfolio-development projects for friends and acquaintances. I can’t blog about them in specifics, but they include:

• design, development, and deployment of a publicity and promotional site for a short film about a well-known musician
• design, development, and deployment of an online credit-education tool for a non-profit organization
• business process review and recommendations for an independent multi-channel merchant with an eye to creating that merchant’s web presence and online customer-service tools

Of course, there are innumerable house projects to address as well. I’m thinking I’ll be posting more often here for the short term at the very least.