Blogging

I’m not the only one who misses the early days of blogging

“If you wanted people to read your blog, you had to make it compelling enough that they would visit it, directly, because they wanted to. And if they wanted to respond to you, they had to do it on their own blog, and link back. The effect of this was that there were few equivalents of the worst aspects of social media that broke through. If someone wanted to troll you, they’d have to do it on their own site and hope you took the bait because otherwise no one would see it.

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A funny thing happens when you escape the algorithm

One of the observations that made me want to launch this microblog: It’s a space where you don’t have to worry about posting “too often” and being penalized by an algorithm. The opposite is also true. You don’t have to worry about not posting “often enough” and being penalized for that. There’s also no: • Need to worry about the optimal time of day to post • Need to chase engagement to drive reach

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