@simonwoods âWhen I post to my Facebook using Facebook, it shows up on Facebookâ is also a contrived sentence that could be uttered, as is âWhen I tweet on my Twitter from Twitter, the tweet shows up on Twitterâ (which, admittedly, is a bit better because Twitterâs users have created their own identical-noun-and-verb for âpostâ specific to that platform), and no-one seems to have trouble understanding those re-usages of the same words. That said, Micro.blogâs system is slightly more complex, and our cultural insistence on dropping the word âappâ or âprogramâ or âwebsiteâ (or whatever other specifier) where including it would lend clarity is a problem that we should all work on.
I think Iâd say âWhen I post to my Micro.blog-hosted blog using Micro.blog for Mac, it gets cross-posted to the Micro.blog timelineâ (or, as you say, âmicroblogâ in the second instance, and Iâd also make an argument you could just say âTimelineâ for the last one and âMac/iOS appâ for the penultimate without losing clarity).
rather, itâs time for people on the web to become better citizens.
Yes!
Speaking of confusing language, your âtaglineâ at the bottom of you page is ambiguous. Are you chanting âDown with those no-good monsters!â or saying âIâm down with those good peeps, dudeâ? (I know the answer is the former, obviously, but just wanted to point out that more-dangerous ambiguity in case you hadnât seen it.)
@smokey And I remember one time you tried to convince me that micro.blog is not complicated. Hah!
@Ron It all depends on your point-of-view at the moment (what part of the elephant you are looking at) ;-)
@smokey (that recent events reminded me about this reply of yours and my intent to reply back... well, yeah, what a wonderful world we're all building đ)
The phrase was made popular thanks to the Queen Mother. I picked it up from a podcast of course.
Funnily enough I'm not bothered by the ambiguity. If anybody ever contacts me about it (ha!) then their approach would say a lot to me about whether the conversation is worth my time or not.