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Mon, 06 Sep 2004

Savvy Vegetarian begins to blog this very moment:

I don't know about you, but to me, this is so exciting, I feel like hiring a skywriter!

I've been publishing the Savvy Vegetarian website for a couple years now, sometimes it feels likea a couple of centuries. For at least the last six months, I've been feeling that the site is too static, and the newsletter doesn't work, because I have to gather or write what seems like huge amounts of assorted material, and then put it all out there at once, which is always a laborious and time consuming process, mainly because we (my husband the webmaster and I) are just plain slow.

As a result the newsletter isn't timely, fresh & immediate, like a blog. When I've just read an article or book, visited a site, attended a conference, cooked something exciting, learned something new, come up with a great recipe, had an interesting discussion, or a blinding insight, I want to share it now, before it goes away. I want the site to be more immediate, more useful, and more interactive, more what I had in mind when I started.

Thus the blog, which I hope will be a conversation, rather than a monologue. I wanted the site to be like that, but it didn't happen, for various reasons.

So, we're changing the SV site to make it more user friendly: removing a couple of pages, offering more freebies, re-arranging the tab bar, deconstructing the current newsletter, posting contributions as they occur, summarizing, indexing & linking on the home page, which will now be a newsletter-in-progress. I'll continue to post articles, reviews, advice, and resources on the site, with commentary and links from the blog.

Exactly when the transition will be completed, I can't say. It always seems that these things take about ten times longer than we had in mind. But we shall persevere and not mind, all at the same time, which is tricky, I'll admit.

All the best from Judy Kingsbury at Savvy Vegetarian