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So. What might 's elderblogging turn into? My theory is: 1) A lightweight regular email (as a push-mechanism and heartbeat of aliveness) that surfaces threads, ideas and moments-in-time from the chaos Paired with:
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2) A free form space (or set of spaces) that are alive, without time-stamp and look more like Figma, Roam, Mindmap than blogpost. Ready for a post-writing, post-publish world.
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Some things this enables: - A more vibrant community and interaction model (a speed up of the community feed) - A shift from making sense to community making their own sense of raw materials
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And finally the Big One (tm) that this enables is the ability to do "just in time" insights (perfect for feed based worlds) where can snapshot parts of the open canvas (figma, mindmap, roam whichever) to make a point in real time without breaking stride
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Agreed. Substack is a point solution for harvesting the end-of-life blog market into the email ecosystem, which seems more robust/long-lived. It is less a successor to blogging than a sort of upmarket retreat for blogging being disrupted by threaded open media
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Really, that's what you're talking about Tom. My elderblogging personal phase just happens to synchronize with the elder stage of the medium itself. Of the 2 dynamics (me getting old, blogging getting disrupted by threading), the latter is the more important one obviously.
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I think what I'd *like* to do is port ribbonfarm to a site where pre-blogchain stuff is rendered as a bunch of legacy static pages forming a sort of background, blogchains are rendered as native threads weaving through it, and there's support for a new roam-like thing
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