Writing in clusters
I have written before about having small ideas rather than big ones - unable to take them beyond a certain point - but it goes deeper than just being impatient to get my thoughts out.
I seem to share my comments in clusters.
I tend not to put out a single post on something but a number; a series of connected, progressive thoughts with the ideas (often contradictory) morphing as they go.
The process is visible.
Sometimes that can be seen within a single post, its trajectory changing as I work through a topic. Very much a case of thinking out loud or, rather, on the page.
Then, after reaching what amounts to a conclusion, the subject is put to one side, exhausted, leaving the appearance of a brief obsession.
It's just the way I work.
# Liked: 9 years later, I'm blogging again
# I haven't cross-posted a few of my recent items to Medium and haven't really felt compelled to do so despite it being almost a religious act. Curious that I should be so disinclined to use it so quickly.
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# Liked: ongoing by Tim Bray · Still Blogging in 2017 This is what it's all about!
Realising that I had not cross-posted a few of my recent items to Medium got me thinking. After mentioning that I was not reading much there either I find it curious that there should be such a change in my online behaviour in so short a space of time. This wasn’t a deliberate act, I forgot to change the options on the Medium plugin for these posts, but I still don’t feel compelled to go back and do it. Although POSSEing your content to other places isn’t a requirement for having an #Indieweb property they generally go hand in hand. Most people will still engage on the same services they have been using, or reply to other people’s posts, but just make sure that they are putting the original items on their own site. It can, therefore, be surprising when someone says they won’t be syndicating their posts. Returning to the subject of display and distribution, however, not syndicating your content – or, at least, not syndicating all of it – makes a good degree of sense. If distribution or syndication doesn’t work then don’t do it, simple. Keep things where they are, where they look how they should, within the context in which they were created. Some content types work well when distributed so, if it’s not a chore to do it, why not? Use these as the bait to the blogging hook. Hand in hand with data ownership we should be leading by example to encourage more direct site visits rather than viewing via a third party service.
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