Feeds of communities evolve, get messy, self reference and importantly are revisited and re-formulated on the fly. Timestamps are an outdated attempt to impose order on a natural chaos.
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So. What might
@vgr'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:1 reply 0 retweets 6 likesShow this thread -
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
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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
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Replying to @tomcritchlow @vgr
Does something like what Substack enables with a newsletter + threaded conversations with the same readership point in the right direction?
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not really - substack doesn't change the received experience of author -> community. It simply enables in different ways.
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Replying to @tomcritchlow @iChris
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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For sure - but you're "crashing" first as the canary in the coal mine for the rest of us. A useful point of study.
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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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Yep! This would be fun.
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What we're running into here is a need for a multi-architecture publishing: books, blogs, wikis, threads, and my latest obsession, short glossary-like log-level entries. Kinda like Intel's OneAPI is trying to make a single interface for many architectures. https://software.intel.com/en-us/oneapi
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