jtauber · July 19, 2012 01:37
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 I don't want to get too deep into the psychology of why I stopped blogging other than to suggest that when you don't blog for a while, it raises the bar of what you break your blogging drought with. There was one time I didn't blog for a couple of months and the next time I blogged, a friend said "I've waited months for a blog post and you post THAT!".

 So to get back to putting more content on my site, I need to give myself permission to do shorter, less well-thought-out posts and not feel that every post has to be an epic article. Looking at the taxonomy above, it's clear that in the past I have made blog posts considerably shorter than informational articles.

 I think there is value in distinguishing short-form and long-term posts and making enough of a separation that there is less pressure to always do long-term posts. But as well as the dimension of length, I think it also makes a lot of sense to distinguish posts which are ephemeral (or at least quite specific to the time in which they were made) from those that are, for the most part, timeless.

 Taking these two dimensions into account, we can see that short, ephemeral posts and things like announcements and quick questions can be done on twitter or on a different part of the site from more in-depth articles. And even the informational articles might be better suited to the original wiki pages that Leonardo had before support for blogs was introduced.

 For a time, blogging was a hammer so everything looked like a blog post to me. After this site sprint, I'd like my site to make more of a distinction between different kinds of information.

 A tentative approach I'm adopting for this sprint is to make the following distinctions:

 * announcements
 * musings, thoughts and observations
 * informational articles

 I'm still giving more thought to if these three categories are enough (should reviews be separate? what about questions?) and exactly how all the blog post types listed in the previous section might fit in here (excepting the ones that will be exclusively on a site like Twitter).

 There is also the question of whether there are things I'm using Twitter for that could be done on the site (perhaps in addition to, rather than instead of). Useful or interesting links might be an example of that. I've never posted bare links on my blog before but it might make sense to do so elsewhere on the site, perhaps in the context of what the link relates to.

	I don't want to get too deep into the psychology of why I stopped blogging other than to suggest that when you don't blog for a while, it raises the bar of what you break your blogging drought with. There was one time I didn't blog for a couple of months and the next time I blogged, a friend said "I've waited months for a blog post and you post THAT!".

	So to get back to putting more content on my site, I need to give myself permission to do shorter, less well-thought-out posts and not feel that every post has to be an epic article. Looking at the taxonomy above, it's clear that in the past I have made blog posts considerably shorter than informational articles.

	I think there is value in distinguishing short-form and long-term posts and making enough of a separation that there is less pressure to always do long-term posts. But as well as the dimension of length, I think it also makes a lot of sense to distinguish posts which are ephemeral (or at least quite specific to the time in which they were made) from those that are, for the most part, timeless.

	Taking these two dimensions into account, we can see that short, ephemeral posts and things like announcements and quick questions can be done on twitter or on a different part of the site from more in-depth articles. And even the informational articles might be better suited to the original wiki pages that Leonardo had before support for blogs was introduced.

	For a time, blogging was a hammer so everything looked like a blog post to me. After this site sprint, I'd like my site to make more of a distinction between different kinds of information.

	A tentative approach I'm adopting for this sprint is to make the following distinctions:

	* announcements
	* musings, thoughts and observations
	* informational articles

	I'm still giving more thought to if these three categories are enough (should reviews be separate? what about questions?) and exactly how all the blog post types listed in the previous section might fit in here (excepting the ones that will be exclusively on a site like Twitter).

	There is also the question of whether there are things I'm using Twitter for that could be done on the site (perhaps in addition to, rather than instead of). Useful or interesting links might be an example of that. I've never posted bare links on my blog before but it might make sense to do so elsewhere on the site, perhaps in the context of what the link relates to.