colinwalker
colinwalker
I've been posting a lot less frequently. Part of that is being back at work and the tiredness it brings but what doesn't follow is that I have largely stopped publishing shorter posts, likes and quick replies when it would make more sense not to post longer, more thoughtful pieces that ... colinwalker.blog
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hjertnes
hjertnes

@colinwalker If they don't like it, they can always just unfollow?

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hjertnes I actually think more about my own behaviour and how it affects me rather than how it is seen by others and so the doubt is more internally focused.

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@colinwalker are you doing your site for you or for others?

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hjertnes Exactly. For me so it shouldnā€™t matter!

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@colinwalker would Colin appreciate Colin's likes?

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hjertnes Iā€™ll have to ask him šŸ˜‰

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hjertnes You sound like a therapist. šŸ™‚

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@colinwalker Just a philosophy major

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hjertnes That last comment was actually a reply on the blog itself (and not from me) but m.b doesnā€™t process the microformats properly at present. @manton is aware (nudge)

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@colinwalker You still do old school comments on your site?

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hjertnes Yup, no point excluding non-Indieweb folks.

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hjertnes
hjertnes

@colinwalker I don't consider a webmentions and comments to be the same thing. A webmention requires a little bit more effort.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@hjertnes With webmentions being converted to comments on WordPress they end up the same.

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jordon
jordon

@colinwalker Thanks for posting this. It's made me realize I feel similarly. For what it's worth, I always enjoy your postsā€”long or short!

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@jordon Thanks šŸ™ Iā€™m sure things will work themselves out.

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smokey
smokey

@colinwalker Iā€™ve had the opposite problem: 27 short posts and only 2 long posts so far this month. I didnā€™t think I had made nearly that many short posts; I only knew I wasnā€™t writing posts that required any sort of sustained thinking.

Part of my ā€œproblemā€ is that I am spending time interacting with people here on Micro.blog, which does cut in to time I could be writing longer posts. On the other hand, I have been wanting to do more photo-type blogging for a long time, and 9 of those 27 short posts are photo posts (+2 more that are photo-text hybrids), so I am at least accomplishing another goal.

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seishonagon
seishonagon

@smokey thatā€™s the point of micro.blog that makes the most sense to me - a rich flow of information that has quick eddies (micro conversations) and slower currents (long posts) Iā€™d bet most people fall into one or the other category as producers of content but enjoy both as consumers. Which leads to my current itch - how to classify this flow of information to consume and to retrieve easily. In that sense itā€™s a bit like RSS.

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smokey
smokey

@seishonagon I was definitely surprised I was producing so much short-form content (on my own site, not counting replies), because I never saw myself as much of a short-form person šŸ˜®

I was nodding along in understanding and agreement until I got to

Which leads to my current itch - how to classify this flow of information to consume and to retrieve easily.

I donā€™t understand what you mean by that sentence šŸ˜•

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seishonagon
seishonagon

@smokey yeah - I wrote this before my second morning coffee. I mean that if micro.blog really takes off, it may become a bit of a information firehose, like RSS, and it may lack some tools. I didnā€™t pay much attention this week, and getting back to conversations that may be interesting to me is not frictionless.

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colinwalker
colinwalker

@seishonagon @smokey This has always been the way of social properties. One can follow conversations from your mentions or use favourites as a bookmarking tool but, ultimately, one has to be comfortable with the fact that things move on without you and you canā€™t read it all.

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