Comments on: Three metaposts in one http://walt.lishost.org/2008/07/three-metaposts-in-one/ The library voice of the radical middle. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:48:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2008/07/three-metaposts-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-33254 walt Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:03:54 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=819#comment-33254 Laura, Technically, you're probably right. Realistically, it doesn't feel to me as though most tweets are intended to function like (most contemporary) blog posts. I guess, to me, that "microblogs" has the same feel that "miniarticles" would if you applied it to blog posts... Maybe technically justifiable, but it <i>feels</i> wrong--to me. As always, YMMV. Laura,

Technically, you’re probably right.

Realistically, it doesn’t feel to me as though most tweets are intended to function like (most contemporary) blog posts.

I guess, to me, that “microblogs” has the same feel that “miniarticles” would if you applied it to blog posts… Maybe technically justifiable, but it feels wrong–to me. As always, YMMV.

]]> By: Laura http://walt.lishost.org/2008/07/three-metaposts-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-33253 Laura Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:49:45 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=819#comment-33253 Well, if you take blogging to mean posts arranged on a web page in reverse chronological order and with an RSS feed, then it seems as though "microblogging" would mean the same thing, only much smaller. If much smaller is taken to mean "much shorter posts," then I don't see why one couldn't call Twitter microblogging. If you start to define blogs by their content, I think you run into a lot of problems. Well, if you take blogging to mean posts arranged on a web page in reverse chronological order and with an RSS feed, then it seems as though “microblogging” would mean the same thing, only much smaller. If much smaller is taken to mean “much shorter posts,” then I don’t see why one couldn’t call Twitter microblogging. If you start to define blogs by their content, I think you run into a lot of problems.

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2008/07/three-metaposts-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-33252 walt Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:41:25 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=819#comment-33252 Christina, In practice, very few posts and articles that I need will disappear in the three to nine months (esp. with caching). If I thought they would, then, yes, I'd use one of these programs. My little fix basically reduces my paper use (and, of course, this being Mountain View and us being us, I was already recycling all the paper--and it's frequently part-recycled paper to begin with) and gives me what I need. (And helps keep the folders from overflowing!) Well, with conference reporting, there's another issue: Liveblogging. I have to admit that I find liveblog conference reports extremely frustrating as compared to reports put together after the fact. I think they get more of the words, but I feel like I get less of the meaning...but, again, that's just me. Paul, Had to rescue your comment from Spam Karma 2 (you had three links and haven't commented here recently). If the new-blog creation rate is falling, that would make perfectly good sense. Christina,

In practice, very few posts and articles that I need will disappear in the three to nine months (esp. with caching). If I thought they would, then, yes, I’d use one of these programs.

My little fix basically reduces my paper use (and, of course, this being Mountain View and us being us, I was already recycling all the paper–and it’s frequently part-recycled paper to begin with) and gives me what I need. (And helps keep the folders from overflowing!)

Well, with conference reporting, there’s another issue: Liveblogging. I have to admit that I find liveblog conference reports extremely frustrating as compared to reports put together after the fact. I think they get more of the words, but I feel like I get less of the meaning…but, again, that’s just me.

Paul,

Had to rescue your comment from Spam Karma 2 (you had three links and haven’t commented here recently). If the new-blog creation rate is falling, that would make perfectly good sense.

]]> By: Paul R. Pival http://walt.lishost.org/2008/07/three-metaposts-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-33251 Paul R. Pival Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:07:17 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=819#comment-33251 Hmm, I've been waiting for Sifry to publish another State of the Blogosphere report (last one was <a href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html" rel="nofollow">April 2007</a>) and thought maybe he had when Technorati was cited in the figures above. Did some checking and it seems the 175,000 blogs created daily statistic is taken from his <a href="http://news.cnet.com/2100-1025_3-6102935.html" rel="nofollow">2006 report</a>! The more recent 2007 report actually cites "only" 120,000 created per day. The 113,000 tracked comes from an <a href="http://technorati.com/about/" rel="nofollow">undated page</a>, (one still citing the 175,000 number) though seems reasonably more than the 70 million blogs tracked mentioned in the 2007 report. I couldn't find any mention of the 7.5 million active blogs on the Technorati site... :-/ Hmm, I’ve been waiting for Sifry to publish another State of the Blogosphere report (last one was April 2007) and thought maybe he had when Technorati was cited in the figures above. Did some checking and it seems the 175,000 blogs created daily statistic is taken from his 2006 report! The more recent 2007 report actually cites “only” 120,000 created per day. The 113,000 tracked comes from an undated page, (one still citing the 175,000 number) though seems reasonably more than the 70 million blogs tracked mentioned in the 2007 report. I couldn’t find any mention of the 7.5 million active blogs on the Technorati site… :-/

]]> By: Christina Pikas http://walt.lishost.org/2008/07/three-metaposts-in-one/comment-page-1/#comment-33250 Christina Pikas Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:53:40 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=819#comment-33250 wrt printing and then referring to the original - I know both Gary Price and Mary Ellen Bates have highlighted various programs that allow you to bookmark and cache a copy - some with highlighting and notes... maybe something like that would help? - I mean, I know you said that you want paper, but that would capture an online copy for cutting and pasting. wrt microblogging - I agree. I definitely prefer "real" blogging for conference reporting in particular - much more meaty. wrt printing and then referring to the original – I know both Gary Price and Mary Ellen Bates have highlighted various programs that allow you to bookmark and cache a copy – some with highlighting and notes… maybe something like that would help? – I mean, I know you said that you want paper, but that would capture an online copy for cutting and pasting.
wrt microblogging – I agree. I definitely prefer “real” blogging for conference reporting in particular – much more meaty.

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