I always get the number of “evers” confused — but the point is keep up the awesome job you’re doing!

One door closes because one’s opening.

Screw worrying about the next step. Be the mayor in the next three terms and do the right things that are needed to be done, not what friends expect for their own purposes and interests.

That’s what you’re fighting for, isn’t it?

Take this blog to the next level. You’re already halfway there as the person in that role.

i spot checked some of the middling to older posts on archive.org and it seems as though there are changes which have happened to the blog, but I’m not sure they’re quite as expected..

you’ve always posted events, but now there are other blogs that post the social events, and perhaps there aren’t the same amount of more or less political events going on. things like the rally protesting river regions taking over the jobcorps building (dec 05).

you went through a podcast phase where you were interviewing people, but that came to an end. not necessarily good or bad, but a change.

seems like the biggest change is that you have received recognition, and as such, feel a need to step it up. the blog has a more polished feel than it once did, and maybe that just seems a little less personal. you’ve always reposted items from other places, I know I don’t tend to read the Jax Business Journal unless pointed there by an article of yours (for example), the difference now is just instead of summarizing it yourself and supplying links, you give blurbs from the actual article. that’s not a bad thing.

I know you may feel down on yourself and that you need to recharge your batteries, but you have a good thing going. Might change up your routine or layout or something, but don’t take a break. jacksonville’s internet representation will be a sadder place without you around.

What makes you unique is that you’ve had such wonderful success. Your work is a big part of the network of creativity in Jacksonville. That’s why you’ve received recognition and respect. In fact, I think posts from others is a sign of your success. You used to be the microphone and the voice, now you find yourself often just being the microphone. No worries, that’s what we are looking for. That might deflate the ego a bit, but it doesn’t make urbanjacksonville any less important.

Last two cents is not to minimize the energy output of the election. We’ve all been very busy in these last three months. I myself didn’t realize where this sudden burst of energy came from last Thursday, until I checked my calendar.

You do great work Joey. And you always will do great work. I’m with Bryon, take some time off, if you need it. But the blog will always be in my set of Feeds.

I recently moved to Jacksonville this summer, and I know absolutely no one here besides family. It’s nice to be able to see what sorta events “someone in the know” knows about. There are a lot of places to go to find out what’s going on in Jax, but I would be more inclined to read opinions rather than just a bulletin board if that makes sense.

I got really tired of JaxCAL now Globatron.org being turned into a bulletin board that I did what I did and made some enemies, and now I think we’re all cool. I hope so:)

I do enjoy it when it’s you writing your opinion and such and taking pics on your bike. I’ve always liked that the most.

You know you could have a page that maybe shows flyers and such too but experiencejax.com is perfect for that also.

I agree with Madeleine. Everything goes in cycles. Energy and all that jazz. But this is your baby. Do what you want to with it. Turn it into your photo blog if you want. Whatever.

That’s how globatron changed because I wanted to focus on original content. Not that posting flyers is bad, but it just wasn’t want I wanted to do in order to get folks talking about art. Which has always been my main focus. The dialogue as much as people are tired of me saying dialogue.

But yeah man. Keep it up for sure. Take a week or two off, and maybe try and pass the torch to the contributors you already have in the mix. It’d be nice to see them take up the slack for you when you get burned out.

Take another week off man. Month even. I’ll keep checking back every day or so regardless :)