So… why “Tatteredpage”?

Tatteredpage was never intended as a public site.  When I first set this place up, I needed somewhere to experiment, hash out ideas, and share them with others.  It was meant for friends, colleagues, and students. 

This wasn’t a place for completed ideas- it was an online version of the paper napkin I’d doodle on while waiting for a meal, or that well-worn notebook that often served as the first record of my daydreams… or that oft-neglected scrap of paper that just happened to be in reach when the ideas came pouring out.

It served that purpose well- not something easily stumbled across, but easily accessible by those that needed to know about it.  I never thought of using the name for a blog.   When I wanted a more public presence, I’d pony up for a better name.

But what better name?  Blogs are, for the most part, where we share our incomplete ideas, seek feedback, and refine them further before we go committing them to some more permanent form.  They ARE the online equivalent of those doodled-on-napkins, worn out journals, and tattered pages of loose paper scattered about our workshop.

So why not “TatteredPage”?

(A few years back, I used the domain “mysketchpad” for similar purposes…. a miscommunication between my former hosting provider and myself forced an abrupt identity shift.  If you were searching for that place, rest assured, you found it.)