➤ Flipping the (Tumblr) script
I’ve been having a lot of odd anxiety about blogging lately: ideas not being big enough, posts not being researched enough, etc. etc. I’d love to be able to blog the way I used to but I find it harder and harder to pull off since I’m not a writer by profession and since I am now a new, first-time parent.
Frankly, it’s ground my blogging to a halt. So, in a extremely- delayed 2009 resolution, I’m going to change the way I blog on Teradome. (Yes, again, if you’re one of the long-term readers.) From here on:
- More DF-style posting: If you’ve read Daring Fireball, then you’ll know what I mean. Being on Tumblr actually works perfectly for this. A solid amount of sharing with a full article every now and then with a lovely Unicode character to lead the title.
- No blog comments: Seriously. This means if something interests me enough to ilict a response, it’ll become a quick post. Frankly, the “ROI” of web commentary is almost nil unless you are highly invested in the site itself as a community. I firmly believe that further advances in search and syndication are going to blow the walls off of inter-domain communication, and these threads will be woven together automatically, so why lose track of my own responses on all the disparate systems now? Tracking my own thoughts about trends is more important in the near-term than trying to add one drop of sense in a sea of ignorant noise.
- Taking advantage of Tumblr: I used to rave about mailhandler.module in Drupal, yet Tumblr allows me to post via site, bookmarklet, email, IM. I need to start taking more advantage of that. Quick responses via IM, writing drafts over IMAP, stuff like that. It feels so much more alive.
- Not worrying about tone/length: I have to stop worrying about something being too short and not balanced enough. I’m not the NY Times. Poing!@ will still be around for all my snarky, meme-y fun, and to keep me from flooding Teradome, but if I have a tech opinion it’ll end up on my blog first and ping out to Twitter second.
You know, I think that’s a fine start.
