Chris, Toby and Collin of Mannix Marketing in Glens Falls, N.Y., helping to sort out the future of
Bedlamfarm.com. Lenore came along.

   October 29, 2009 – Okay, okay, to all of your jeering Red Sox and Phillies fans. It was just one game. We’ll see tonight.
 
  The re-thinking of Bedlam Farm is continuing. Met for two hours today with the Mannix Marketing web team to continue the simplifying and redesigning of this blog, which as much as anything, has been an expression of my life these last year years, not only in terms of my personal existence, but the photography and writing. I have faithfully recorded my life here, good and bad, and for better or worse, as openly as I can, and am committed to continuing that process.
  We’ve redesigned the home page and simplifed the site. Next, how to present the photos in ways that are comfortable and rational. I am scrapping the photosbyjonkatz.com  site and we are moving many of the photographs to a new site coming up soon on the Farm Journal page. If you look up, you see a photo of a Kinney Road barn. That will change and you will see different photos from my archive. If you click on the photos, you will be able to scroll back and see as many as you wish. And you won’t have to go off of the Farm Journal page. More details to come on that.
  I also want to make something clear. These photos are offered to anybody to use in any way they wish. You can use them as screensavers, print them and hang them up, or paint off of them. I want them to be open sourced, to move freely and easily through the world. That’s why I take them, in part. Some, a few, I will sell as fine art. You are welcome to use any that you wish.
 We are adding a “share” button so that you can e-mail any of the photos to friends or family members. Also, we will soon be dropping the subscription feature. It’s getting too big, and is too difficult to maintain, a victim to success, I guess. The site can be accessed here, and on Facebook and Twitter, but we won’t be able to automatically mail them out any longer. Just don’t have enough space and bandwidth for that.
  There are some other changes as well, but enough for now. I can’t say enough about the people at Mannix Marketing. Can’t recommend them highly enough for anybody who needs a site designed or maintained. When I looked for Web designers, many people told me I was crazy to venture out of New York City. They were wrong. I couldn’t have done better.
  I look forward to meeting with Chris, Toby and Collin. The coffee is good, the conversation is great, and they listen. They are also available round the clock, seven days a week. It is so nice to call somebody at 2 a.m. in a panic, and somebody is there.
  Blogs and websites are not really about technology, at least not for me. They are expressions of my life, my aspirations, my creativity. Like dogs, they are mirrors of my life, and the crew at Mannix understands that and helps me bring the site to life in ways that are meaningful to me, and hopefully, to you.
  I want the site to work for me, but I want it to continue to mean something to you as well. So we are working to make it simpler and more coherent and to reflect my work. We are working on a “Rose In A Storm” page, and the “Bedlam Farm for Kids” page as well, in connection with the children’s books, due out in 2011.