I’ll be doing one launch and one relaunch in April. The relaunch is obvious for dedicated readers, being the new BloggerTalks. It is due very soon, I’m just waiting for some content. The design is 95% complete, and I’m bughunting the code right now. I’ll probably do some last minute tweaks, but overall I’m happy with the clean, straight forward look I’ve given it.

The launch is a new site, titled Feeling Productive. It’s a blog on productivity, something I’ve got a lot to say about, as you may know by now. During the years I’ve been devising several ways to increase my productivity, and make my workflow be more fluid. I’ve made mistakes, learned things, and found solutions. Now I want to share.

So BloggerTalks is due very soon, and Feeling Productive is a bit further off, but both of them are planned for launch in April 2008.

There you have it. It’s always nice to share plans.

As said yesterday, there’s a new version of BloggerTalks around the corner. Here’s the new logo:

As you can see, I’ve reused the type from the current version, but have switched to dual colors. Blue and orange have always been the link colors of choice for BloggerTalks, and I’m going with that.

BloggerTalks is still in hiatus. I didn’t plan it being like this, after the move to my new house (which is now more or less complete, office-wise at least), but here we are, and I’ll just have to make the most of it. I do, however, prefer to tell people about what’s going on, so that’s what I’ll do.

You see, on April 1st, there’s something happening that will inflict on today’s BloggerTalks, and that isn’t a good thing. Actually, it’s bordering close to a conflict of interest, so I’ll have to rethink everything. More

A little while back I received an e-mail with an unusual request. Someone, which I’ll let be anonymous for the time being, asked me to write an e-book for him detailing the secret behind my success in the blogosphere. The take was that he didn’t perceive how I made direct money from any of my blogs, and therefor recognized that I must be making it from spinoff services promoted through my online writing. This person was pretty well informed about my background, because he found it equally interesting that I managed to get into the international blogosphere by starting a blog (here at tdhedengren.com actually), and going from there, with English being a secondary language.

I found this interesting, and I’ll tell you why. More

Having trouble sleeping is sometimes good for you. Last night it seriously got me thinking about my fiction strategy, as I’m getting ready to post the first part of the new short story on OrnTales.com. You see, while I do try to focus my fiction writing on the Orn project, I just can’t do just that, and I feel it is limiting me. Out of nowhere came two new ideas, and I found myself thinking about how to handle them, checking out domain names and such.

It didn’t take long to come to the conclusion that having several OrnTales.com-ish sites focusing on various projects is far from ideal, especially since some of my writing is more miscellaneous and not attached to a specific setting.

So I’m thinking maybe I should consolidate it all under one roof, a site dedicated to publishing my writing? What do you think?

Yesterday I wrote about me getting back to fiction. Today I’m launching OrnTales.com, my fantasy fiction project. Be sure to check it out if you’re into these kind of things. There will be an on-going short story all the time, with two new parts published each week. The first one is called Quest for Knighthood, and the first part is up, with the next one due on Wednesday.

To me, this is an exciting project. It’ll be very interesting to see how I can use the blogging format, as well as the blogosphere - although it’ll be in parts of it that I’m not well-versed at all - for promoting my fiction.

For now, I’m happy to have launched it. This week have not started well, so I’ll settle for that.

Enjoy OrnTales.com, and be sure to tell me what you think!