This Week on Micro.blog 2018 W42 šļø
@vasta I canāt take credit for the camera emoji; @johnjohnston used it last week in his recap and I thought it was a good way to link to photo posts without using too many characters. Glad you enjoyed the list!
@rnv Thanks! As I said to Sameer, credit for the camera idea goes to @johnjohnston.
Iāve found myself lots of times in the middle of a fight between the idea that weāre blogging and a blog post ought to be complete and travel together, on the one hand, and the fact that people donāt tend to follow links to original posts and want to see everything in 280 characters in the Timeline, which calls for splitting an argument or thought into a series of 280-character bits, on the other hand.
If you have slightly different foci for the parts, thereās at least a logical reason supporting division.
@smokey For longer replies, Iāve been writing titleless posts to my microblog then linking to them in a short reply on the discussion thread. That seems to have worked fairly well so far.
@Bruce Yeah, I think for existing conversations where participants are already invested in the subject what youāve been doing works well.
My grumbling was more about initial posts, and in particular where you have >280 and <~512-1024 characters worth to say about a given subjectā¦itās too long for a single inline micropost, but maybe not really ālong enoughā for a traditional blog post, but āpart 2ā also has an important point that you donāt want to get lost being an elipsis+domain name linkā¦there we tend to default to 2 separate posts, so both on this platform and on your blog, the 2 parts are disconnected from each other, forever, and discussion may also be fragmented between the separate parts, rather than looking at the argument as a wholeā¦. (Or, in this specific case, your āweekly reviewā is half a weekly review + another half a weekly reviewā¦.)
