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.

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.

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).

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.

They list different blogging platform:

• https://bearblog.dev/
• https://write.as/
• https://neocities.org/
• https://ghost.org/
• https://micro.blog/
• https://home.omg.lol/

And more!

What I’ve found is this–after people get to posting #200 or beyond, they uniformly report that they’re glad they did it.