Just going through my old bookmarks and found this article. Some interesting ideas to keep in mind. Although I wonder where this current post would sit in his 11 ideas? This post doesn’t add to the conversation, but it just introduces the conversation to a wider audience…
Tag: blogging
These are the kind of responses I get when I try to convince friends to create their own websites (and my internal reactions to them):
Me: You should post on your own website instead of using Twitter and Facebook.
Friend: I don’t know how, Twitter/FB is much easier.
(Me: But it’s easy, I can even create the website for you… wait a minute… most of you have been the owners of a Diaryland/Geocities/LiveJournal/Tumblr site in the past, you know how to goddamn use a CMS. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻))
Me: But you can have your own domain name.
Friend: I don’t want to pay for it/anything.
(Me: 😒)
Me: But FB/Twitter is evil/terrible/not a good citizen of the internet/etc etc.
Friend: I don’t care. / I know they’re terrible, but everyone’s on it, what can you do? 🤷♂️
(Me: I don’t know which answer is worse.)
Me: But you get to own your own content. Don’t you care that everything you post is living on somebody else’s server?
Friend: No.
Me: Don’t you want to keep a record of everything you post?
Friend: No.
(Me: I mean I guess I should have known when I received a wedding invite via FB instead of traditional mail…)
Thanks for the link @patrickrhone.
@jamesshelley Thank you for your post. I’m going to try to respond to you in the second person, as you suggested in your article. Let me say, it feels very strange and very informal. 😶
Here’s a couple of thoughts (in no particular order):
– comments are usually in 2nd person, whereas reply to blog posts are usually 3rd person (I’d have no qualms about responding to you in the 2nd person if I was replying to you in the comments section/micro.blog reply, but doing this in my own CMS is strange)
– love the idea of blog posts being like letters to each other
– would posts in the 2nd person restrict the conversation between the original poster and the responder? I’d feel rude butting in on someone else’s conversation.
I’ll need to think more about this.
I think some of the ideas in this article can translate to blog posts.
I look at my micro.blog timeline and see people posting up pictures from their morning walks, or quotes from their children, and to me it feels like a public gratitude journal.
Colin Walker (colinwalker.blog)[we need more] genuine quality of interactions, real connections, creating a "more validating human experience" as James puts it. This means, however, that we have to pick our targets. Relationships don't scale - at least not the type we need to be building.
This is about human to human engagement, not just typing ‘like’ in every comment box. Annotate, dialogue, amplify, and interact.
I feel I need to get better at this.