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louisgray.com: Blogs Still Trump Streams for Longform Content With a Long Shelf Life

“In 2011, when Google+ just started, some high profile people said they were walking away from their own self-hosted domains and just redirecting to their Google+ profile, which was flying with comments and +1s. I warned against this move, saying “I Gave Away My Web Identity. All I Got Was a T-Shirt.” Even when the product you’re pointing to is high quality, it’s very unlikely a stream-oriented product can match the quality and depth of longer form content that belongs to you.”

louisgray.com: Blogs Still Trump Streams for Longform Content With a Long Shelf Life.

He quotes an article with a similar message, “Why Blogging Still Matters: Data, Distribution, and Ownership of Content” by Adam Singer

OK back to WordPress again for this not…

OK, back to WordPress again, for this not very real blog. Previous actions haven’t been working for me. But perhaps this time I’ll be happy.

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Tinkering with WP again

I’ve decided to make this blog what I’m calling a Single-Story-Blog. It will show only the latest story. Earlier stories will not be shown. The home page will show only the latest content and, hopefully, reflect the writer’s latest thoughts or activities. I’ve spent a while today envisioning this kind of blog. It will enable me to speak openly about whatever concerns me in the moment. Earlier posts can be hidden and kept as a private journal. I think I like it.

Thinking about blogging platforms

I decided to move my self hosted blog back to WordPress.com because of an urge to simplify. It seemed to me more natural that the platform would be identified with the webhost, and take care of the operations I had been neglecting to do, such as updating the software and safeguarding against hackers. I would not be averse to paying something to Auttomatic for this privilege but think that payments should be scaled better according to number of visitors or bandwidth. It seems that in blogging either it’s free or you pay rather a lot. Blogs with many visitors should be able to offset charges with advertising.

Streaming vs. Blogging

I just finished reading Louis Gray’s blog post about streaming versus conventional blogging, With the example of Steve Rubel’s Posterous. Then had another look at Rubel’s writings. Rubel conceives a situation where content producers might abandon traditional websites – the “hubs” of today’s web – in favor of placing their content on services like Facebook (the “spokes”, from which content emanates outward from blogs and websites).

Whether or not this proves to be true, I think that it requires no less writing acumen to produce an interesting stream than to author a traditional blog. Parts of Rubel’s Posterous are quite boring, Successful streaming and microblogging require stylistic adjustments in order to create interesting content.

Social network relay tag

If you are a member of a number of social networks and don’t want to manually update all of them, you start looking for a workflow that will enable cross-postings or relay of information, in order to reach these various services without having to spend too much time with them.  But this can cause issues of duplication, such as when two different aggregators place the same item in Facebook.  I never really sat down to carefully work out all the connections between the various networks that I use and, as I discovered, even four or five different services create endless complexity.  What’s more, it is unlikely that there are two people who use exactly the same set of services, so googling to find a solution isn’t very successful in this case.  Eventually, after making four or five pages of pencil notes, and doing lots of erasing and re-writing, I figured out a method that will probably work better. 

I understood that the basic services I need to consider are blog, status blog, links and photos.  Other kinds of information are less important for me, since I deal with them less.  My basic publishing sites for these kinds of information are currently my blog/lifestreaming site, Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, Twine and Picasaweb.  These services support varying degrees of interoperability and sharing.  For instance, it’s easy to get information into Facebook, but harder to get it out.  Twine is a network based on interest groups around hyperlinks, but when Twine links are aggregated through other services, they link back to Twine, rather than to the  original articles.  Friendfeed aggregates everything, and can pass on information selectively to Twitter. 

I discovered that I have to deal with each publishing category differently, but when I had hit upon the right method, this could save me a lot of time.  For instance, for links I can take a news item aggregated by my rss reader, then email the link simultaneously to two different services, which will then relay the link through my networks.  For my photos on picasa, I can publish both to picasaweb and to Facebook (using picasa’s facebook plugin). 

Like lots of things in IT, a little time spent setting up a workflow program saves lots of work and annoyance down the road.  In this case it’s hard to attain a perfect system, but possible to devise one that works reasonably well.

Hello wordpress!

Today I started a new version of the hieronymouse blog under WordPress.  My purpose in changing the blog over from the SPIP CMS was to enable some additional features I’d been missing, like writing through third-party software.

There is no auto-magical way of importing the old material from SPIP so, in the meantime, that will coexist at http://blog.hieronymouse.com.  I’ve also been blogging at myopera.com and other places, to add to the chaos.

Actually, I think that non-networked blogs are becoming a little passé in the world of social networks.  I will be importing posts from hieronymouse.com into Facebook Notes, and possibly other places.  However, I don’t feel totally comfortable about surrendering control of personal data to such services.  A better solution may be to store original material on a self-hosted site, and just link to that through RSS or other techniques.

As before, this blog is hosted at Ouvaton.coop, the French web cooperative that is possibly the only noncommercial hosting service on the internet.  If you find another, let me know.