Following my own advice, I expanded my thoughts into a bona fide blog post. “Blog a Little”: bitsplitting.org/2019/05/2…
@danielpunkass Really great idea/post/roundup, Daniel!
I think people neglect to write blog posts because the feedback loop is not as tangible as the onslaught of (sometimes mechanical) likes or faves that you can receive on a social network. With blogging, you need a little faith that you will gain an audience.
This is where aggregation-type services like Micro.blog really help, too. I’ve mentioned a few times before that I’ve had my blog for 10+ years now and only hit 500 published posts last June. I blogged a fair amount in the early years when I was syndicated to Camino Planet and Planet Mozilla, and barely after that (for a variety of reasons), but nearly half of those 500 posts had come in the prior 6 months, aka since joining Micro.blog. I was almost always writing for myself, but syndicating into such a supporting community with great feedback greased the gears, as it were. And I’m on track to hit 1000 posts in the next month….
@danielpunkass This weird thing happened; I agreed and turned the comment box into a blog post. Strange, huh!
@simonwoods I did something similar (though I left the comment in the box and wrote a sightly different post) ;-) I have been known to do that, especially when I know it’s something I want to be able to find easily again later, or feel would benefit a “wider” audience.
@smokey I love seeing the strands of connected thought between comments and posts. Using conversation to think through issues and ideas... huh, it's as if our minds find that useful!
@danielpunkass As I've already said here one of the best things that's coming out of the IndieWeb is the rediscovery of blogging.