This site will be abandoned and replaced by www.LifeTwoPointOh.com – Life Happens.
The new site will be home to a new blog of regular web columns of a more personal nature, dealing with observations about daily life in general.
Vox News Magazine – all new!
In Blogosphere, Li'l Ol' Me on March 11, 2010 at 12:01 amFinished! Vox News Magazine is now up and running the way it should be – an online “newspaper” or “magazine”.
No doubt readers will enjoy the newspaper-style sections (Canada, Alberta, International, Business, Opinion, etc.).
For those who like RSS feeds, here’s some good news: simply subscribe to the RSS feed of the section or sections you’re interested in, and skip the rest (but I strongly advice against it 
).
There’ll be a few more tweaks (e.g., section-specific lists of links, etc.), but overall, this project is now complete.
What’s new in the world of “Werner Patels 2.0”?
In Blogosphere, Li'l Ol' Me on March 5, 2010 at 6:15 pmWell, in between a lot of translation and other projects, I have finally been able to revamp my web properties (aka “Werner Patels 2.0”).
I have weeded out a lot of old stuff from my various sites, changed and improved category titles in a way that made more sense, and modified some of the design and CSS.
Sometimes people ask me, “Why do you have so many sites?” Well, because like in the world of specialty TV on cable, it’s always a good thing to specialize.
So, let’s do a quick summary rundown of my web properties and explain what each one is for.
This is my web column. It is like any editorial or op-ed column you find in quality newspapers or magazines, with the only difference being that it is published online, instead of on paper. As a result, each column is anywhere from 400 and 600 to 1,500 or 2,000 words long.
This is my other web column or online portfolio of issues-driven opinion columns and feature articles (the latter are usually at least 1,000 words). As well, readers are welcome to submit their own guest columns or articles. This site deals only with Canadian issues and topics, or ones that affect Canadians in one way or another.
This is my actual blog where I post relatively brief notes on current events, from Canada and around the world. Essentially, anything that’s too short for my web columns or feature articles, i.e., doesn’t add up to at least 400 to 600 words, will be posted here.
