Flutterby™! : Reclaim Blogging 2011-09-01 16:30:29.916216+00

Reclaim Blogging

2011-09-01 16:30:29.916216+00 by Dan Lyke 3 comments

Hey, other people are banging this drum now: Hugh McLeod: “Reclaim Blogging”: Why I’m giving up Twitter and Facebook.

A decade ago, blogging seemed more powerful, more revolutionary, more disruptive… more like the way we wanted the web to be, as opposed to how the corporations wanted it to be.

There are people on Facebook and Twitter with whom I still want to communicate, but RSS of my IdentiFaceTwit updates is at http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke_status.rss , some of those end up here.

In many more ways, I appreciate how Twitter and Facebook have allowed blogging to evolve. Personally, I write fewer, longer, better researched blog posts because I can dump the status updates and interesting links elsewhere.

I still also see the value in having two blog platforms: Flutterby and my own blog on Blogger.

Personally, I write fewer, longer, better researched blog posts because I can dump the status updates and interesting links elsewhere.

And, for me, having a place to dump the status updates and interesting links - the part I was interested in continuing to maintain - allows me to almost totally abandon the longer, omphaloskeptic weblog which was not delivering me useful interaction or positive reinforcement anyway. It was difficult giving up regular long-format web writing when I've been doing it since the mid-Nineties, but all things must pass.