Matt Webb reflecting on 25 years of blogging. On the very early days of blogging:
So I would post 4 or 6 times a day, like most people. Just a line with a shower thought, or a link and a comment, or a response to someone else
I’ve also found that before Twitter, blogs were often microblogs.
@manton Wow, I didn’t even think to celebrate it but February 2 was 24-years for me. www.crabapples.net/rob/archi…
Manton, can I import all of those posts from Blogger into MB?
@manton Yep. Kottke was like this back in the day. That’s the style I learned and emulated and to a large extent still continue to this day.
@patrickrhone Kottke is another good example. Some blogging tools didn’t even have a separate title field back in the day.
@fahrni Congrats! I’d love to add Blogger support. I looked at it briefly a while ago. Can you email me a copy of your Blogger export? I need some good examples to support it well.
@patrickrhone Good times. 🙂 My first experiment with a blog was hand coded, but by the time I got around to officially starting my personal blog the tools were getting pretty good.
>I’ve also found that before Twitter, blogs were often microblogs.
This was my own experience back in the old days of blogging. All pre-Twitter, I felt guilty about my many microposts because I felt somehow all blog posts had to be a brilliant essay. Many years later that was one of the main reasons I tried Micro.blog, because MB worked so well with both long form and micro posts and those micro posts were okay.