Anyone who knows or who has met Chris Heivly is well aware that he deserves a nickname of something like “The Energizer.”

He’s always investing in then helping mentor and grow new businesses as co-manager of The Triangle Startup Factory alongside partner Chris Neal at The American Underground.

He just pulled off another “Tech Jobs Under the Big Top” – a “reverse job fair,” which is a cool concept where business people pitch to prospective employees about whey they should want to work at one of those companies. 

And coming in June just as the current round of Startup Factory companies launch, he’s working on a combination of events designed to tie Triangle startup action under “one roof” with what he calls “Paradoxos – a new event celebrating startups, music, food and beer.” At these events, he says, the “Triangle’s best and brightest misfits collide.”

A potent combination, indeed.

But on Monday in a blog post at another one of his ventures, Triangle Tech Talk, Heivly said he is “cutting back.” He and the others involved in the news website focused on Triangle’s tech sector are volunteers, so day jobs dictate a change.

“Blog Pivot – What Is This and Why Should I Read It” is how he headlined it. 

TTTalk as he calls it has been around since September 2011. Heivly said he launched it in part because he “was not getting all the news I wanted.”

“The idea – take the crowd-sourced aspects of Hacker News, combine that with the stylings of TechCrunch, but apply very firm RTP walls. And we would only cover software tech,” he wrote.

The site is a mix of company news, blogs and events. He believes the site had become “very respectable.”

“But like any startup, we were not satisfied with what we were producing and the impact we were having on the ecosystem. Specifically, the volume, quality and timeliness of the news was not where we wanted it to be,” Heivly said in the post. 

To make improvements would require “dedicated time and effort.”

Problem is, he noted, “This is a volunteer effort and we all have day jobs.”

So Heivly is scaling back TTTalk to “my personal blog concentrating on my observations of what is happening in our ecosystem” and maybe some other posts.

But Heivly isn’t shutting the door on a possible rebirth in the future. “And stay close, who knows where this goes,” he wrote.