ryan kennedy’s blog

I know, I haven’t blogged anything in a while (two people mentioned it to me today). When I have blogged lately, it’s mostly been boring and pointless banter that nobody’s really interested in. So…what gives?

• Work. It’s been insanely busy lately and it really doesn’t show any sign of letting up for the forseeable future. While I do work on some really interesting stuff, it’s not the kind of thing I get to talk about here, which is unfortunate.
• Yahoo! Mail Beta. It used to be that I had most-favored-blogger status with the Yahoo! Mail Beta frontend team. Whenever they pushed out a new build, I was sent a changelog that I could post for those interested (in fact, the product managers were actively encouraging me to do so). It’s been a long time now since I’ve received a changelog. As a result, the major source of my blogging and public interest has been cut off. Ultimately, it hurts the users who really like to see that level of detail about the beta. Unfortunately, it’s the reality of the situation and it doesn’t appear that there’s any improvement on the horizon. I have more that I’d like to say about this, but I’d rather not say something I’ll regret tomorrow.
• Hacking. I just haven’t been doing much hacking on the side lately. The last hacks I worked on was my maps hack and a widget for the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

So, now what? I never feel like posting here just for the sake of posting (okay, that’s not entirely true). I’d like to find my “thing”, something that I’m passionate (and informed) enough to write about. I just haven’t found “it” yet.

I could blog about Yahoo!, but really, Jeremy’s got the internals covered while Chris and Joe have the externals pretty well covered.

So that leaves me wondering what to write. I’d rather this not simply be my periodic, personal diary because, really, who wants to read that? I’ve been kicking around the idea of doing reviews of publically available APIs. Everyone knows I’m good at having an opinion about everything (especially other people’s software), I might as well share it. I think my earlier comparison of the Google and Yahoo! maps APIs was fun to do. I could see picking one API a week or something and writing it up (of course, I’ll have to discover some of that elusive “free time” to pull that off).

Anyway, now you know why it’s been so quiet around here. If you’ve been waiting patiently for an update on the Yahoo! Mail Beta, you’re far better off subscribing to the Yahoo! Mail Group or watching the Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog. Both of those are good places to get in on the external discussions about the beta. In the meantime, I’ll be brainstorming for something new and (hopefully) exciting to talk and read about.

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