Thursday, March 20, 2014; 11:02:49 AM Eastern
The "noteblog" format
- I say the new "Scripting News" is a "noteblog," to differentiate it from a Twitter stream and a WordPress, Blogger or Tumblr-style blog.
- The new format is inspired by the pre-2006 format of Scripting News.
- I switched from that format because:
- 1. Google Reader didn't like my feed with little snippets, they insisted that a blog post be a title, link and description.
- 2. Twitter looked like the future, with their API and Internet-scale notification system.
- Now Google Reader is gone, and Twitter doesn't look like the future anymore. Most of my ideas don't fit into 140 chars, and the Twitter API stopped being a place to build new user experiences.
- Now that Fargo 2 is maturing, I brought back the shorter posts, and mix them with links, to writing on my own site, and elsewhere.
- For writing that's not full enough to be a blog post, but too full to fit into 140.
- I would call them medium posts, but someone else already thought of that. ;-)
- "curly"