Now I did it. I’ve hit Peak Timeline, I’ve followed enough people that I’m missing stuff on my Micro.blog timeline. Tsk. :-)
Sorry Chevy, but the new Suburban in black with super dark tinted windows, looks like a hearse.
Interesting. Over on my Wordpress blog, Bing has now crawled deeper into the posts on there and updated the search results. This week I got my first search hits from Duckduckgo and Qwant which both use Bing.
From my experience, you really have to immerse yourself in micro.blog for a month before you start understanding it’s features and the community. Even then, MB is deeper and more subtle than you think after that month.
School is back in session. The little kids are all wearing backpacks that are almost as big as they are.
Every time you publish a new blog post, the world is never quite the same afterward. It’s like the butterfly effect. Only with nouns and verbs. :-)
My approach to long form blogging: 1. try not to sound like a moron, 2. quit trying to write like a journalist, 3. write like I would in a forum post, 4. try not to sound like a moron, 5. I am letting people in on my current thinking on a topic which may not be consistant with my past thinking or future thinking on the same topic, 6. occasionally use commas, 7. try not to sound like a moron. I don’t always succeed.
Sunday morning and Micro.blog is hoping. Some facinating discussions going on. It is exciting to see some of the longest threads of conversation I have ever encountered on MB. However I’m finding some hard to follow but this is most likely me skipping around between timeline, mentions, conversations and then getting sidetracked on a link that looks shiney.
But the cool thing is there are actual, in depth conversations going on!
Another thought, I have followed more people and the timeline is moving quicker. I need to promote some MB folk that I follow to my RSS reader. I think a MB folder in needed. I’m not sure how that will work out if I find a post on the reader that I would like to comment on, but I can experiment with one or two first. Some, like manton and macgenie should probably remain both on the timeline but also on the RSS reader so I don’t miss important announcements and stuff.
Anyone doing the RSS reader thing with MB? How is that working out for you?
My blog has a bot infestation.