So it’s almost the end of 2006, and this blog has been more or less active for nearly a year. I’m of the personality type that likes making lists (of goals or things to do) and checking them off. And what better time to come up with a new list than at year’s end. I like to set up goals that are within reason of achieving but slightly out of reach – this post outlines some plans I have for both Webomatica and my other site, Bottle Cap-O-Rama.

At around this time last year, I had some vague goals of building a website (Bottle Cap-O-Rama) for my bottle cap collection. I had an at-the-time ambitious goal of getting up to 1,000 unique bottle caps by the end of 2006. I surpassed that mark last month.

Here are some goals for Bottle Cap-O-Rama in 2007:

1. Get up to 3,000 unique bottle caps.
2. Fill out all the existing entires with beverage reviews, history on the companies, and links.
3. Activate comments site-wide.
4. Add a forum.
5. Come up with some interactive ways to display the bottle caps: Flash time lines or games.
6. Figure out a technology-based system to streamline trading (choices of bottle caps, organization of extra bottle caps, contact information).

Similarly, in January of last year I set up this blog at Webomatica, my personal site. I’ve been really pleased with how this blogging thing has taken off. I had a “digg” experience a few months ago, and this blog has moved up to 78,829 (42 blogs linking in) at Technorati. It also shows up on Alexa (although that’s a notoriously iffy way to measure traffic), and I keep getting more and more comments and page views (including being quoted for a San Francisco Chronicle article) – all generally related to the amount of time I’ve spent writing – which is nice.

One thing I haven’t been too good about is integrating some of my other aspects of the Webomatica site into the blog. I used to write and record a lot of self-produced music and create comic book and multimedia projects, which I’d like to get a higher profile for. So some musings on how to do that appear below.

Here are some goals for the Webomatica blog in 2007:

1. Crack 50,000 rank at Technorati or 100 blogs linking in.
2. Figure out a way to get people to give me free stuff to review (music, movies, tech products).
3. Maintain my integrity – I won’t “sell out” or diverge from the purpose described on my About page.
4. More comics and book reviews.
5. A “recording” project: where my in-progress tracks are uploaded to the blog for people to critique and review.
6. Get my old Cine~matica videos online in Flash video format.
7. Look into Flash video as a method of reviewing websites.
8. Get through at least the first 50 of the AFI 100 Movies.

Lastly, I have another side project in the works, which sounds pretty ridiculous but the field is wide open, and I should be able to get it up and running pretty quickly based on my experience with Bottle Cap-O-Rama and Webomatica: A website for my mint tin collection.

Over the past few years – for some unknown reason – I have a pile of tins that used to contain mints: Altoids are probably the best known. It got to a point where a few people at work were giving me their empty tins; I think I have about 30-40. The biggest hurdle will be photographing them, but everything else development-wise should be similar to Bottle Cap-O-Rama.

So here are some goals for this project:

1. Get a domain name.
2. Photograph the mint tins.
3. Profit! (just kidding… I’d be surprised if that ever happens with any of my projects).
4. Get up to 100 mint tins by the end of 2007.

Anyhow, I hope this gives you some insight into some of my early New Year’s resolutions. I’ll refer to this post in the future and see how well I’m doing.

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