Friday, October 31, 2014; 10:53:51 AM Eastern
Blogging isn't just writing
- Last weekend I flipped the switch on the new version of Scripting News. It's a return to a previous format, this time built on standards. Each tab is rendered when the user loads the page from an XML or JSON file stored anywhere on the public Internet.
- The formats are: "RSS", "OPML", "River.js" and a new one, for the linkblog, generated by "Radio3". I think when the dust settles, and that's what I'm working on now, settling things down, this may become a popular way to do a personal web presence.
- It's more than a blog. It's also a feed reader. Isn't that weird? Well, when you think about it, isn't that what a blog is??
- #### It's more than writing
- Anyway, as the guy writing for this site, I am delighted! What I love about it is that now my photos and cards and links all get equal billing with my essays. That was the goal all along. To put a picture on Scripting News I just have to post it to Flickr. There are lots of ways to do that. So now Flickr is part of my publishing system. I wonder what they think of that at Yahoo?
- Blogging isn't just about writing anymore, if it ever was.
- #### It's great for writing
- And the writing is much more the way I wanted it to be. Get an idea, click an icon, start typing, publish, revise. That's the workflow. As simple as possible, and recognize that there needs to be a point where the writing is published, and revisions after that need to be easy and flow, in a different way from the initial composition of the story. I'm writing this now in "Fargo", but it could be in any OPML-capable outliner. That's also important. A tools ecosystem can develop because the formats are open.
- #### Insta-roadmap
- Anyway, we're getting much closer now to the noteblog idea. Should have some new software for this, soon, I hope.