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First, it was for attention, a desire for something big and a fear of missing out. Now it's the cleansing effect, uncover the covered, gain insight.
The WeblogPoMo is a challenge: posting one blog post per month.
The idea is pretty simple: on April Fools' Day (also known as “April 1st”), a participant produces genuine content that's very different from their normal produced content. It could be a different format, a different topic, a different style, anything. The constraints are:
- It is something they normally wouldn't do.
- It is totally genuine: no irony to it.
- It is up to their usual standards of quality.
In other words, while it seems like there’s never a good time to write about something, the truth is that there’s never a bad time to write about something.
The author arguments in favor of writing. Each arguments against writing is thwarted.
“After all”, they said, “the world doesn’t need yet another opinion.”
True. The answer is simple: don't publish for the world.
Another blogging platform
There are no real guidelines on how to create posts. There are no expectations you need to fulfill, no boxes you need to check. There's nothing you have to do besides doing whatever you want.
Meadow realized:
- the writings are influenced by the reading and their style
- there are no real guideline in how to create posts and what is needed to fulfill.
- the way Meadow write solidifies over time and contradict with the two upper points.
Another tool to build a blog :)
Call it a hobby if you will, but writing gives me something that nothing else provides.
The benefits of it run far deeper than the sum of its parts. No person should judge their blog based on the number of views the posts get because it always serves a different purpose. It allows you to publish whatever it is you want to publish, get it out of your brain and own it from start to end. I don’t need a blog, but everyone should have one.
Instead, I find it more exciting to write about things I don’t yet fully understand, where new information has become available or where I want to clarify my thinking. In other words, to “write so that I know what I think,” or to “write what I need to know.”
Originally blogs were called weblogs: a log of activity that you wrote to the web. Peter Merholz jokingly split the term into two words to make it an activity: we blog. Ev Williams started to use it as a verb and a noun: to blog. And the rest is history.
So, in a way, blogging [via social media] is more popular than ever. The thing that changed was where people published.
[Ten years ago]
A set of protocols or standards will need to come along to help connect all publishing platforms together. The incredibly useful features we find inside of networks like Twitter will need to find their way out onto the world wide web. This means bringing actions like following or subscribing, mentioning, citing, link previewing, etc. to the independent web and have them be completely separate from any single service.
It is slowly coming with IndieWeb, ActivityPub, and the standards of microformats, syndication feeds, federation, etc...
About video only: Do you want to serve those types of people?!
I can ask: do you want to do that for people?
What the author posts is now different, but blogging is not dead.
A collection of thoughts about blogs and RSS
There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own.
About micro.blog
Each time I made a concerted effort to write and publish more, I started to move further away from what I wanted my blog to be. It has to be about me. It needs to revolve around my thoughts about topics and, more importantly, be about what I get up to.