Comments on: Metablogging

By: Anil

Anil — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:16:19 +0000

It’s interesting… I see a lot of people confronting exactly this. I think having stuff like the Action Streams to capture my delicious/twitter/etc. activity has freed me up to do more writing, not least because I want to show up on everybody else’s aggregations. :)

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:44:18 +0000

@Boris: I can’t say that my accumulator wasn’t inspired by Jaiku at all - but the main difference is that this one is mine :) The issue of comments in context is on my mind, though - I’ve considered hooking haloscan or something up to the accumulator, though that would then be another divergent stream of comments (assuming anyone participated) from all the original items. Hmm.

@Tom: That’s another thing I’m thinking about. My home page is a cruddy redirect to the accumulator now. I should make it a more focused summary page, maybe have one or more “featured” items along with “about me” info.

@Micah: Yup, that’s where I’m at too. :/ Outsourced my “I listened to X” to last.fm — done.

By: l.m.orchard

l.m.orchard — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:24:21 +0000

Yeah… that’s the other thing I’ve been thinking - I wonder if I’m not really ever going to get back to blogging, and will end up doing something else. I want to keep writing and I want to keep hacking — blogging seems social enough to keep me from becoming a complete hermit. Hmm.

By: Micah Sittig

Micah Sittig — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:56:32 +0000

I found that building an accumulator sorta killed my blogging desire as well… as in “well, I listened to a song on Last.fm so now I don’t have to blog tonight.” I think the accumulator is going to have to become a secondary page to my blog to get me practicing my writing again.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:32:38 +0000

My blog URL is in the signature of every e-mail, which means that I want the front page to always have something thoughtful. So I added a checkbox to determine whether a post could appear there. I realized later that this was also perfect criteria for whether the article was signal or noise, so now I have feeds for “front page stories” (non-crap) and “everything” and I think it works out quite well.

By: Boris Mann

Boris Mann — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:26:37 +0000

Hmmm…good call on the personal voice aspect, Kellan. I find that I can be “freer” posting to Jaiku / Facebook status because it has less eyes (closer eyes?) on it than the broad distribution of my main site.

And the accumulator looks like, well, er, a Jaiku clone :P Many people have told me that they like the fact that Jaiku gives my delicious bookmarks a place where they can comment on my observations of that link…I like that. Although, like you, I figure I should probably suck those back into my main site.

By: kellan

kellan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:31:37 +0000

I found that Twitter helped me get back in touch with my personal voice that had gotten lost from spending too much time reading the echo chamber. Which is probably why I’ve been over blogging lately after taking most of a year off :)