Comments on: A Weblog Entry About Weblog Entries

By: Webgreenhorn

Webgreenhorn — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:18:44 +0000

Hmm… I just started blogging, but I kinda like titles. They’re sort of eyecatchers and teasers to posts. Ok, I admit: a title serves rather marketing purposes than adding real content…

By: Ben Barren

Ben Barren — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:42:25 +0000

The supposed promise of Web 2.0 is “Open API” etc integration between different applications/services which will become ‘web based’ and part of the great ‘Semantic Web’ – Just as headlines in blog posts and the editing plus writing needed to just blog a link becomes too much, it also needs to be easier to take the link (eg from the RSS reader you view it from / or the site – which is harder to control) and automagically blog from my RSS reader. Why do no RSS readers do this ?
Like when I use flickr and ‘blog this’ straight to blogger. This feature should be every on the Net ! esp in RSS readers, and major publishers.
Also, Dan – I sent you an email from simplebits.com form, as well as through linkedin network, where Im friends with richard mcmanus who knows a friend of yours. We have some very 2.0 design needs for feedtagger.com – Thanks
Ben Barren
http://benbarren.blogspot.com
http://www.feedtagger.com
RSS’ing down under

By: stephen

stephen — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:18:27 +0000

It may also be a case of choosing words wisely, constructing meaningful sentences, and avoiding the “I believe, I feel, I hate, etc” statements.
Finally, we are trying to emulate that which we are trying to be – journalists. And in a world where journalism has taken over the internet – it’s proving much harder for any one of us to be the next best thing.
(Interestingly, it increases the chances of two or more bloggers writing EXACTLY the same thing about an event.)

By: John

John — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:17:07 +0000

I often find myself not posting those “small (but post-worthy and interesting) things”, simply because I don’t think I have enough content relevant to the topic. After I’ve resolved that issue, then there’s that dreaded title to come up with!

By: r c Silva

r c Silva — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:11:20 +0000

Without wanting to sound a bit harsh or anything like that, let me out it this way.
Aren’t we complicating the problem in 1st place??
As I recall blogs were intended to be LOGS of life,activities,whatever.
But some ppl had the need to make it a newspaper and down it wen’t.
KISS is an old concept but i believe it still applies to technology.
just my 2€.
Cheers all.

By: Aegir

Aegir — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:00:22 +0000

If your CMS needs a title, why not use the date and time? I think if a title doesn’t come naturally to something, just use some of the inherent metadata for it.

By: Michael Romero

Michael Romero — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:33:40 +0000

I was stuck with the same dilemma at one point. I like my “main” entries to have some substance to them, but I sometimes want to make a quick point about something. Hence I hatched something I call the “Soundbyte”, which is just what it sounds like. It’s nicely done with a useful MT plugin called Multiblog that will automatically rebuild my main index template with the new content when I update the soundbyte, which is in a blog of its own. Sadly, I don’t even use the silly thing all that much.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:54:24 +0000

I’ve had my head buried in a re-design for my site, missed this and Jasons post and I’m surprised that this shift seems to be happening to a lot of people.
Currently my “miniblog” is in a thin middle column – the re-design will place it on a wider column to allow me room to “blog” a bit more. The main column will hold longer “posts” that are more considered.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:40:58 +0000

Sometimes I envy the userland-esque style of blogging, since it's so easy to add just a quick post that ends up becoming a part of the greater stream of posts for that day. Of course that suffers from the opposite problem, that you can't have a feature post with a big nice title and whatnot. Maybe it would be nice to have a tag you can put on your post that says whether it's big or little. Each getting a different style treatment.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:27:43 +0000

You put to words what I have been dealing with but not really giving much thought. Often times all I want to publish is a link to an article but I end up using the article title as the title of my post and a quote to give it depth. I do this because my template “demands” it. How to deal with the fact that maybe twice a week I have time for a longer bit of writing but I have time to share interesting linkage everyday?