“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” -William Wordsworth

DESKTALK: I quit.

The “Vermilion Views” website has run its course. After a great deal of consideration I believe 23 years is enough.

The technology and the media have changed (drastically) during the last two decades. Just in the past two years the changes have come very quickly. In short, the day of the linear blog-type informational webpage is done.

Viewership is down. Complaints are up.

So, enough.

About four years ago beginning mostly as a reaction to the pandemic I ventured more (Although I’d been doing it for perhaps ten years) into video and audio productions.

The initial problem (for me) was finding a platform to publish them. In 2021 I began using an app called Vimeo to be able to use videos on line and show to the public. A year or so later I started using YouTube for video and an app called SoundCloud for numerous audio productions. To date I have published 1143 VV issues and approximately 30 other webpages as well as 31 audio tracks. I don’t believe I missed a week of Views since 2003.

When I began the “Views” site I intended it to be a veritable newspaper-type production wherein I used a set format to present information on a weekly basis and have it archived for future use. The writing was important. And it worked for a long time.

But today that format is passé. Few folks want to read much. (The AI age has reduced attention spans.) And while the writing is still important – people want to skim written text and move on. That essentially means that much of what I do and have done is somewhat irrelevant.

Still, I must admit that I had a good time and learned a great deal about things over the years because of the site (and my linear productions). But it’s time has come – and gone. It’s time for a change.

I am archiving (for posterity) all the old issues of Views. It will take a while. But, hopefully, those old archived pages will be of some use to future “Viewers”.

Thanks

Rich.