Comments on: What is Blogging to You?

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:07:27 +0000

I guess it depends on what you're tweeting. My personal account would bore people to tears if I piped it here. Tweets from a group account might be more useful.

By: Lisa M

Lisa M — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:01:37 +0000

Very good point, how integrating Twitter feeds into one's blog can be just “noise” to some.

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:32:29 +0000

Load time is another concern for me. I just don't see the need to consolidate all my online crap into here. Maybe because this is ostensibly a team blog.

By: ontarioemperor

ontarioemperor — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:14:12 +0000

I used to have both a Twitter widget and a FriendFeed widget, but removed the former after the unpleasantness about the login message and never put it back. I'm keeping the FriendFeed widget as a reflection of other stuff I'm thinking about that I'm not blogging about. But I have reduced the number of widgets on my blog, primarily when they interfere with loading time.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:16:21 +0000

Interesting. I just checked, and it looks like a badge with your tweets. Did I miss something, or are we talking about a different blog?

Twitter rules for those not quite blog worthy thoughts, hence the micro-blogging moniker. Your layout is a bit more forgiving for widgets. This theme doesn't have the space though.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:10:15 +0000

Yeah, the only widget I use with any frequency is the comments one. I check the Feedburner chicklet too, but that's it.

I'm feeling that way about the Social Bar lately, but it's reaching that point of no return. Although I guess 100 odd people won't cry if it goes away.

By: uvox

uvox — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:09:24 +0000

yeah, nobody writes tweets that good…

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:08:17 +0000

I find myself searching here more often too. That's not something I do with FF or Twitter. I guess those are more immediate for me.

Technology and purpose of each is different, but why insist on cramming them all together into a single blog with a mess of widgets?

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:04:47 +0000

Makes sense. I use a lot of some of those tools as placeholders (Delicious, FF, Reader Shared) to structure 'tubes content, i.e. so I can find it later.

Blogging I use to document a process and get feedback, e.g. upgrading my disk, moving to Ubuntu, etc.

Twitter I use for unstructured communication.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:02:12 +0000

I saw that article on Twitter, natch. Feels like a hoax to me, but funny.

By: Bob Rhubart

Bob Rhubart — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:50:23 +0000

While I have a Twitter widget on my blog, I don't push Tweets to my blog. I use Twitter and Friendfeed to achieve the opposite, as a way to push links to my posts — and to a lot of other stuff — to the community on Twitter.

I use my blog when the thought I want to express requires more than 140 characters. Different tools for different tasks.

By: Andy C

Andy C — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:54:39 +0000

I'm with you. A blog is a blog is a blog. My blog has articles and (Disqus) comments.

If I want I a lifestream, I'll use FriendFeed to aggregate all my outputs (Tumblr, blog, Disqus, identi.ca). It seems counter-intuitive, to me at least, and backwards to embed my FriendFeed stream on my blog.

Most widgets are clutter and really for the blog author and not the reader IMHO.

By: chet

chet — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:45:37 +0000

statement of record, "sharing" of knowledge, place to occasionally vent, and whatever else I feel like. I've used my search capabilities more and more just because I know I've encountered a particular problem before.

I also think that those based mostly on technology are a bit different though. I can't substantiate that with facts or any rational thought right now either.

twitter for me is part yelling off the roof top which is why I don't widget it on the blog. I know it's (twitter) public too...

So I'm full of incomplete thoughts tonight...constrain my comments to 140 characters and problem is solved!

By: ontarioemperor

ontarioemperor — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:06:58 +0000

If I may pretend to be technical, I generally treat my blog as more structured data, and my tweets, FriendFeeds, Google Reader shared items, etc. as unstructured data. There are exceptions - in fact, I have a blog that I use like a Twitter account - but generally my blog posts pretend to have some type of structure with a beginning, middle, and end, and possibly some contrasting points of view.

I'm speculating here, but perhaps the reason that a Robert Scoble feels comfortable de-emphasizing his blog is because he has other outlets for his "structured" comments. If he were to lose those outlets, perhaps he'd blog more frequently.

By: uvox

uvox — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:16:12 +0000

Blogging is cheaper than therapy for me: http://www.multilingualblog.com/index.php/weblo.... Can't be too arsed with twitter etc, - you can even have somebody do it for you... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/...