Today I bring you the sad, nay, the devastating news that Thoughts on [tech and gaming] News is no more.

OK, it’s hardly going to ruin your day, but ToN is ending; Yesterday’s post is now the last ToN. I made this decision over the weekend, and had intended to do one more week of ToN, before pulling the plug, but I’ve decided to get things under way sooner, rather than later. The reasons for this decision are partly down to time, and partly down to perception. Also, lets face it, it was a dumb name that was never really intended to become a feature.

In place of ToN will be two new features. ToT (which is marginally better), which stands for Take on Tech, as in; John Bullock’s Take on Tech, which will be a weekly feature, and a news segment. The news segment will be an irregular, short form segment where I post news that I want to share immediately. It will be along the same lines of ToN, but with no set schedule; when the news happens, I’ll post it. It will have to be big news, or news of particular interest to me, though. Other news will go in ToT.

ToT will be a longer form, weekly post about the tech and (for now) gaming news. Going weekly with this will obviously give me more time (writing a daily 1000 word post isn’t the best hobby around a 7-5 day job!) to myself, but also it will allow me to put more thought into my post, rather than just typing out a stream-of-conciousness about the last 24 hours of news.

If ToT works out, I may separate out gaming news into its own weekly post. Probably called ToG, because I’m unimaginative like that.

The first ToT will be towards the end of this week, as I work out which day works out best for weekly posting. I would have liked this new segment to launch with the new site design, but that is unlikely; alongside the [now] weekly posts, the day job and the site design, I am also halfway through the second draft of a novel, that I would like to finish before my six month old son is old enough to read!

If you have any thoughts on the end of ToN, or the birth of ToT, or anything else, feel free to let me know in the comments below.