This is my 500th post. I find that kind of amazing. Sixteen months of blogging doesn’t seem that long, while creating 500 posts seems like a major achievement.
I thought I’d use the opportunity to reflect a little on the blog and make a request for some feedback. I’m mostly happy with what I’ve collected here so far. The artwork pages, the image link page and the fiction page seem useful and, according to my server statistics, are all very popular. The BDSM articles page needs work and a more frequent update policy, but I think it has potential if I just put some time into it. The weak link is really the page on commercial sites, which has been left to rot. Maintaining and updating links to interesting commercial sites is a lot trickier, as so much of their content is hidden behind their pay wall. Without taking memberships of dozens of sites, it’s hard to know what’s good and what isn’t.
So the question is, what else would you like to see here? What would be useful? Are their particular resources I should be tracking and linking to? Or should I be doing a better job of what I have already? What about the front page and my regular posts? Do I have too much of certain types of material? Am I missing certain themes that you’d like to see? Particular things you’d like me to write about? Any comments or ideas are welcome.
I’ve been kicking around some ideas of things to add or change. I’m not sure about any of them however.
- Add a links page for BDSM equipment. As well as the major players (like Stockroom and Extreme Restraints) there are lots of small custom manufactures (like these guys or these guys) that might be interesting to track.
- Turn the commercial sites page into something more like the image link page. I’d maintain a bunch of links to all sorts of commercial content producers, including major players, independent producers and pro-dommes.
- Create a limited pro-domme directory. I don’t see much point trying to replicate something like the Max Fisch domina guide, but possibly a smaller list of high quality links might be interesting. Of course the problem is defining what I mean by ‘high quality’. I don’t play with enough different pro-dommes to make it a personal selection, and I’m not sure how else I can filter without creating a maintenance nightmare.
As I said any feedback is welcome, either on these ideas or anything else you think I should add. Just leave me a comment or drop me an email.
Picking an image for this post seemed difficult. I’m not sure what’s appropriate for a 500th post celebration. So I’ll just go with one from my queue of images. I don’t post a lot of F/f, but I thought this one was kind of sweet. I also noticed that Suzanne just posted about finding a possible femme sub, so this is appropriate for at least somebodies blog post, even if it’s not mine.
Hi Paltego:
Congratulations on your 500th post! Your blog is fantastic! Just what it says it is; an invaluable femdom resource! As long as you keep posting I will keep reading! I make great use of your femdom image directory. Between work and my home life I don’t have much time to surf the web and your image directories alone would b e enough to keep me totally absorbed for a long time to come! Your new ideas sound great. Would love to see links to high quality producers of BDSM equipment. ProDommes also. Not that I am shopping but I am interested to see who would end up on your list! 😉
You do an excellent job Paltego! Keep up the good work! 🙂
Hey hmp.
Thanks for the positive feedback. I always appreciate your comments here. The image directory is certainly popular, rating up with my front page for views.
I’ll see what I can do with the new ideas. The equipment pages seems quite straightforward. If I can collect enough interesting links then I’ll certainly add that.
The pro-domme page would be a little more problematic. I’m thinking of a kind of idiosyncratic list of dommes I’ve either seen, would like to see or are generally well known/reviewed in the BDSM community. The problem is for it to be useful then obviously I’ll want people to look at it. If people are looking at it then I’ll probably get dommes pinging me to be added. If I add anyone then it turns into another Max Fisch list, which is pointless to replicate. And if I don’t add anyone then I’ll get into discussions about my selection criteria and why I will not add someone. That doesn’t sound like a fun discussion to be having. Although maybe I’m over thinking it, and nobody will really care.
-paltego
Congratulations on your 500th post!
Thanks! Appreciate the comment.
paltego,
Congratulations on your 500th post and thanks for entertaining me with your regular posts. Your blog quickly became one of my favorites and over time, has never disappointed.
As to my potential female submissive, do let me know if the cute young thing in the photo becomes available. I might be able to squeeze her in somewhere 🙂
Suzanne
Suzanne,
Thanks. Glad you enjoy whatever random stuff shows up at the front of my brain everyday !
I’m afraid I don’t have the young lady in questions number. Somehow they forget to include it as part of the image metadata. Should I ever acquire those magical digits, you’ll be the first to know :).
-paltego