{"id":13361,"date":"2009-01-13T16:10:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/13\/the-blogging-barrier.html"},"modified":"2009-01-13T16:10:13","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T23:10:13","slug":"the_blogging_barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/the_blogging_barrier.html","title":{"rendered":"The blogging barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doyce blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’m actively communicating online all day, every day, but my main blog languishes. Why is that?<\/p>\n

Simplicity. Twitter tweets, facebook updates, Flickr photo posting, and sharing news articles with commentary… all of those things are easier and faster BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE<\/b> than posting via Movable Type.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Yup.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t do Facebook, and have never had a justification (see below) for using Twitter. But my own blogging has suffered, net, because of my love affair with Google Reader, and the “Share” and “Share with Note” functionality in same. Where, once, if I wanted to post about something cool I’m reading, I had to be at my machine, open up a blog client, write something out, do some cut-and-paste excerpting and copy over the link … now I just click on a button to Share with other GReader users — or on another one and write out a quick note.<\/p>\n

It’s that easy. That quick, painless, seductively easy. And the result is the flood of stuff that appears in the sidebar of this blog each day under “Unblogged Bits<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

It’s even better than that. I can sit on the train (or at a store, or pretty much anywhere) with my Blackberry, and go through Google Reader that way, too, including the Share button (alas, no “Share with Note”).<\/p>\n

Now the fact is, I would never have posted as much as I share this way. And I do, if I have something of substance to say about a post, or it passes a certain threshold of significance, Star some stuff rather than Share it — the idea being that, when I get back to my computer with a few minutes, I can pull up those Shares and make posts out of them. (And I am gratified that not a few of those end up, themselves, Shared by others.)<\/p>\n

But overall, I blog less, and I don’t like that. This blog is my journal, my extended memory. GReader can’t make up for that, especially since it doesn’t allow threaded commentary (thank heavens), and once something scrolls away, it’s only accessible via search. A month from now, or a year, or five years, I’ll never be able to find that really cool thing I once said related to an item in GReader. And that bugs the heck out of me.<\/p>\n

The speed of posting\/sharing GReader items is important, but the ease and portability of that sharing is just as important. The fact is, my life has, for reasons I’m not altogether pleased about, gotten a lot busier in the last year. As a result, I don’t do much posting from the office, and evenings are often a choice between a dozen different urgent activities, only one of which is blogging.<\/p>\n

I can <\/em>blog on the fly — if I take a picture. Flickr’s ability to post a photo from my cell phone to my blog is spiffy. But when it comes to blogging in an ad hoc fashion, there’s not a convenient way for me to do it.<\/p>\n

Now, that having been said … I noticed that Doyce was playing around with some options to allow easier ways of posting to a blog (some working, some not). Indeed, one thing he’s looking at, which I’d not considered, is using Twitter. It appears that there are some Twitter-to-blog \/ Twitter-to-Movable-Type systems. That might be something to look into (or get Doyce to tell me what he’s doing). The ability to do easy text posts from wherever would be highly useful.<\/p>\n

(I know there are ways to get Twitter feeds in the sidebar. That’s not what I’m looking for. I’m looking to actually send a message to Twitter and have it post online in my blog, and be archived there and the whole enchilada. This<\/a> looks like a possibility.)<\/p>\n

(Even better, I’d love to have a quick button in GReader that says, “Post a comment and include a link to this item.” That would be da bomb. And make it voice activated. And … and … colored cobalt blue. And ion-powered. And I want a pony. And a rocket ship. And …)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doyce blogs: I’m actively communicating online all day, every day, but my main blog languishes. Why is that? Simplicity. 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