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This Week on Micro.blog 2018 W42 šŸ—“ļø

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seishonagon
seishonagon

@smokey thanks - youā€™re too kind!

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SimonWoods
SimonWoods

@smokey šŸ™Œā­

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rnv
rnv

@smokey Looking good! And I second @vasta: I love the camera icon for photo links. Iā€™ve been working on a short week-in-review summary, too, and the <280 constraint has been surprisingly tough. (I may just split it into two, each with slightly different fociā€¦)

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smokey
smokey

@seishonagon It was a really striking shot šŸ‘

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smokey
smokey

@vasta I canā€™t 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!

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smokey
smokey

@simonwoods Thanks, Simon!

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smokey
smokey

@rnv Thanks! As I said to Sameer, credit for the camera idea goes to @johnjohnston.

Iā€™ve found myself lots of times in the middle of a fight between the idea that weā€™re blogging and a blog post ought to be complete and travel together, on the one hand, and the fact that people donā€™t 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, thereā€™s at least a logical reason supporting division.

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Bruce
Bruce

@smokey For longer replies, Iā€™ve 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.

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adamprocter
adamprocter

@smokey nice

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smokey
smokey

@adamprocter Glad you liked it, Adam :-)

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smokey
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@Bruce Yeah, I think for existing conversations where participants are already invested in the subject what youā€™ve 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€¦itā€™s too long for a single inline micropost, but maybe not really ā€œlong enoughā€ for a traditional blog post, but ā€œpart 2ā€ also has an important point that you donā€™t 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 ā€œweekly reviewā€œ is half a weekly review + another half a weekly reviewā€¦.)

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