rnv
rnv

For no particular reason, I’ve been completely absent from M.b since late last week. How’s everybody been? What did I miss?

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eli
eli

@rnv welcome back! (I too haven’t really been around, in all honesty, so, am not heaps sure about what was or wasn’t missed. Perhaps a mechagodzilla came through!?)

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smokey
smokey

@rnv I’d noticed we hadn’t heard from you for a few days; glad to see you back (with fall, no less), Robert 😃

A few highlights (or things that were highlights to me, at least!) of what happend while you were away:

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kitt
kitt

@smokey <3 for the recap!

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amit
amit

@smokey great recap Smokey. I think we need these “This Week in M.b” posts. May be all can contribute 🙂

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smokey
smokey

@kitt Glad you found it useful :-)

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smokey
smokey

@amit Thanks. I really like your idea, too, Amit; it would be another good way to discover new people and conversations, in addition to a helpful recap for people who were busy during the week (or on vacation, like @vishae coming home to 5800 posts! :-( ). I wonder what the best way to go about it is?

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amit
amit

@smokey It’s such a coincidence but I was just thinking about a Microcast around posts, discovery. May be it would be perfect in a podcast format. I was exploring the option and let the idea sink in. But not I think it would work.

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rnv
rnv

@smokey Thanks for such a great recap!

I agree with @amit: this would be an excellent regular feature, like Micro Monday.

People could take a few minutes at the end of the week to walk back through their “Favorites” tab, and assemble a short post of links.

Imagine seeing perhaps a half-dozen different “recaps” appearing in your timeline each Saturday or Sunday morning…

And because everyone’s recap would be different — sometimes extremely so — this would make for a sharp and refreshing counterpoint to the “Discover” tab.

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amit
amit

@rnv @smokey Yeah, thought so. It would fit very well along with Discover tab. I thought I will check with @macgenie if she plans to do something on these lines. In case not, if it would be ok to start such Microcast.

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Burk
Burk

@amit @smokey a podcast discussing insteresting things happening on m.b every week would be awesome!!! 😀👍

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johnjohnston
johnjohnston

@amit loved @smokey’s post too. Really like the idea of different folks week in microblog. Could have a emoji to discover these posts?

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amit
amit

@cm @burk Yep, I believe it would be a good complement to the Micro.monday. Exploring some more ideas.

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amit
amit

@johnjohnston Yeah, a dedicated emojitag for these recap posts (and a section in Discover) would be perfect. How about 🗃 or 🗂 or 📰? @burk

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smokey
smokey

@amit @johnjohnston @burk FWIW, I’ve been using 🗃 in my blog posts for links to archives/collections. I’d been thinking maybe one of the calendar emoji would make sense for “weekly review”: 📅, 📆, or 🗓️, but 📰 also seems like a contender.

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smokey
smokey

@rnv You’re welcome. And I like your thinking on this.

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smokey
smokey

@cm @Burk @amit I’m interested in seeing (hearing) this play out as a microcast, too.

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SimonWoods
SimonWoods

@smokey @cm @Burk @amit A microcast with an accompanying blog (MB hosted of course ;))? How about a microcast involving various people, a mixture of hosts covering different things? You could even have some episodes be single host, pair of hosts, etc.

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smokey
smokey

@vasta Always happy to be of service!

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Burk
Burk

@simonwoods @smokey @cm @Burk @amit Sign me up!! 😀👍🎙

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smokey
smokey

@rnv @amit @johnjohnston @burk @simonwoods @cm It was more time-consuming, and more difficult to fit in 280, than I thought it would be, but I did my first “official” weekly recap post tonight. (Like Robert suggested, I went through my Favorites, but I also started a draft post early in the week and stashed a few things/urls there as I thought of them.)

I used the spiral calendar 🗓️ emoji because I liked that you could see the weeks in it.

Where do we stand on the microcast side of things?

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johnjohnston
johnjohnston

@smokey when I did mine last week I fouund the 280 a challenge too. Tried briefly to automate parts, but fell back on manual. Going to give int another go shortly.

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Ron
Ron

@johnjohnston @smokey It was really neat to read. I liked that it was all in the Timeline to read, rather than a link to a longer piece. Of course you can go longer than 280 by doing it as a reply to yourself or do a Part 1 and Part 2.

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johnjohnston
johnjohnston

@Ron there is something nice about working to constraints sometimes. Makes you prioritise perhaps. Good to have the choice.

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Ron
Ron

@johnjohnston Absolutely. I love editing posts to make the 280 limit! It has made my writing better at times.

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crossingthethreshold
crossingthethreshold

@smokey Well it looks as though I have not being paying attention! 🙈 Thank you for the recap.

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smokey
smokey

@crossingthethreshold You’re welcome. There are lots of people here on Micro.blog, and everyone follows a different subset, so it’s very easy for everyone to “miss” lots of things—which is part of the idea behind these recaps: a bunch of us listing the posts and conversations that resonated with us the past week, spotlighting things that others may not have seen.

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smokey
smokey

@Ron Our fixation with seeing things in the Timeline, within 280 characters, often seems at odds with the concept of blogging (and with the fact we tend to believe that people should write blog posts intstead of “tweetstorms”) ;-)

Not saying there aren’t valid reasons for doing one way or the other, only that it highlights a tension between the two parts of Micro.blog: the blogging part and the social/Timeline part.

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amit
amit

@smokey It was a great recap Smokey. And am sure it takes effort to fit it in 280 char limit. I am sure I would struggle with that. I need to get a recap post up soon :-)

On microcast, am still in. I had asked Jean for her inputs and interest to make it official. I think we can involve all interested folks and work out details.

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smokey
smokey

@amit I saw John’s post fit in 280 last week and thought, “Oh, it looks like it isn’t that hard to do” but reality for me is always fighting 280 ;-)

Thanks for the update on the microcast status 👍

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