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.

You really shouldn’t care what people think. It’s the [place of residence on the web] I own and have control of

I’m not tied down by character limits. I don’t have comments and likes bootstrapped to my posts, begging to be utilized. [...] I feel a sense of peace of mind here

What are the characteristics of a blog?

• content is published in the form of posts, often in reverse chronological order
• content is posted on a website, online, with hypertext capabilities
• they are self-published, regardless of hosting platform, in that there is no gatekeeper authorizing publication

Blog posts do not have to be read in the order they were originally published.

Also as a distinct format, they are worthy of consideration, because the medium a message is served through is as important as the message itself.

Blogs are broad and can be defined by a lot of different examples. Technology enables it but does not solely define blogness. There are distinctions though

• composed of addressable, distinct posts
• order-irrelevant and non-hierarchical
• impermanent and ever-evolving
• self and external-referencing
• it is published online to an unknown audience
• multiple types of content (image, video, text, sound, ...)

In contrast, newsletters miss the searchability. They are not addressable and lack of public publishing. The publisher can know the audience.
Social media serves a mixed feed with posts by other authors. The algorithm incentivizes the work creator's post. The platforms reinforce a strong bias to the present.

It seems "blogs argument themselves". They are "contemplation on a particular theme in depth".

What is the future of the blog medium? It's still a new medium and it depends on how we want it to mature in the next 20 years.

Press CTRL or CMD + click or press the link. You then have the choice: open it in the same tab or in a new tab.

I think most people would be better served by subscribing to small b blogging. What you want is something with YOUR personality. Writing and ideas that are addressable (i.e. you can find and link to them easily in the future) and archived (i.e. you have a list of things you’ve written all in one place rather than spread across publications and URLs) and memorable (i.e. has your own design, logo or style).

It’s a massive differentiator to have launched something. To have had an idea, and put it into the world.

I think it’s worth noting that there’s a certain luxury of time that affords side projects that comes wrapped up with privilege. [...] So it can be very small.

A blog post is not the same as an essay or article. It’s simply an update to the log of information you’re writing on your website. That stream of posts, together, makes up your blog. So a post can be as short or as long as you like It’s your voice, so they can also be as formal or informal as you like. I use a pretty informal voice in my blogging because that’s what comes naturally to me.

10 ans de Shaarli !

Vous savez où finissent les posts supprimés automatiquement après 1 mois? Dans un cercle. Le cercle des pouets disparus.

Write 5 times more because it helps thinking, practice makes you better, humans are worse than computers at storing knowledge and it frees the brain.
Then shorten it because the shorter it is, the more people will read it. Also, 80% of the value is in 20% of the length.

• Just sit in silence
• Apply constraints. Shorten the goals if it is hard to write.
• What did I learned today?
• Find a previous post you disagree or want to enrich. Write about why. Use an old post and update wit h your current experience
• Take a quote you love, or hate, and write about the why's. Backup the reasoning with evidence.
• You probably answer questions from email, IMs, DMs, work, etc... Post the most common answers.
• Write about your mistake
• Make a link post, and explain why
• Help others

A similar community to the Yesterweb, small web, etc...