the year draws to an end and what happens to our experiment in blogging? do we get bored and leave you to error: page not found messages? do we fill the window with ads? do we start selling coffee mugs and beer cozies? no we don’t. we continue on, forge ahead. we mutate as we mutate. so with a new year can you expect a better site? well, we hope so, but really how can we know?

with 5 months or so of blogging under our belt we can whole heartedly say it is great fun. the joy of doing it, however, is tempered with some amount of frustration, maybe even a little disappointment. the intended community has yet to sufficiently materialize, though there are many silent lurking readers, our traffic statistics assure us of this fact. you are out there readers. yet you have not introduced yourselves. the content has thus remained the product of a small gene pool, the mutations miniscule.  what we never intended on creating was the non(community)ist, the non(interaction)ist, the non(discussion)ist. it is enjoyable still to be sure. interesting and entertaining to blog, to speak, to write, to read, but in the end what we most fondly desire for the nonist is community.

with that in mind let us first clue you in to some possible additions to the site. we are milling over an additional blog, a photoblog, intended as both a place for showing ourselves, and a copywrite free image pool, for members to view and use as needed. we are looking at slightly more fringe technologies to add experimental pages to the site, generative art, abstract group page building, a-life, mind mapping site wide, etc. all these are possibilities. we will most likely add a forum, though as it stands there seems little impetus. build it and they will come? perhaps. new art projects are in the works, and we are always looking for more. lastly we are milling over a numismatics section, offering for sale, if not coffee mugs, some of the art, design, and music our members have produced.

we will continue to satisfy our own curiosities, of course, but what we want now is your suggestions for the nonist. what would you like to see? how can we make it easier for you to get involved? what functionality do you miss? what can be improved? what do you despise? what do you already enjoy? contact us with your suggestions, insightful, interesting, hateful, encouraging, or otherwise.

so in closing, 2003 was fun, it saw our birth, 2004 will hopefully see us grow, and we hope you join in, and add your two cents… if you don’t we’ll plod on anyhow without you. happy new year.