Serializing a Book Online: Lessons From My Web 2.0 Memoir by [[Richard MacManus]] 2024-10-29

the Mathom-house – The Homebound Symphony by [[Alan Jacobs]]

Blog on Dave! by [[Frank Meeuwsen]]

https://web.archive.org/web/20241005072338/https://ruk.ca/content/blog-posts-are-breadcrumbs#comment-28817

[[Peter Rukavina]] on how his blog is something others come across and make connections. Commented that [[Hoe emergence tot stand komt 20040513173612]] is from longer traces. My PKM system is leaving those traces for me, my blog for me and others. My blog is the longest, due to it being 22+ yrs old, trace I'm leaving publicly for others to connect around.

https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/notes/99-3-14.html

Certainly an early example of blogging here... diary, ideas, even a link blog at the bottom

For over 2 decades I struggle with this. Because my paraphrasing is mostly unsuited for my blog, regularly because it is mixed language and often bc it contains words that serve as shorthand. A blog is more performance, written for not-me, while annotation is for me, and after editing might be publishable for not-me. Annotating publicly here in .h, even if the readership is highly limited, introduces a level of performance-awareness for me. At times I've done annotated link blogging, but it never became a practice as with [[Stephen Downes]].

Blogging Every Day by [[Barry Hess]]

ROFL

Blogging as a way to "find your voice?"

read [[Harold Jarche]] in dead blog walking at 20

https://www.facebook.com/IUMediaSchool/posts/pfbid02nFWgRVX6sDUSeNfCSYgcEEtemn45GmjDoceX5aoF6LfACSv8bpDGensv19oyetXWl

h/t Eric Sinclair, whose wife went to Indiana University

https://web.archive.org/web/20240208185222/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00349-5

Paper by author Lizzie Wolkovich refused because of inaccurate suspicion of ChatGPT usage. Another cut to the peer review system? She had her GitHub writing receipts. Intriguing. Makes me think about blogging in Obs while having a private blogging repo that tracks changes. n:: use github while writing for [[Reverse Turing menszijn bewijs vaker nodig 20230505100459]] purposes.

https://peculiargenres.commons.msu.edu/schedule/

https://joevancleave.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-typecasters-guide-to-road.html

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7142905086325780480/

One can now relatively easily use various tools in combination with artificial intelligence-based voices and reading to convert large corpuses of text into audiobooks, podcasts or other spoken media.

Maiden typecast by Richard Polt on 2010-08-21

Richard Polk's first typecast.

Typecasting Format by andres lombana bermudez on 2013-04-28

https://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/

https://writingball.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-is-typecast.html

What falls in or outside the bounds of typecasting?

Typecasting by Keith Tam on 2020-04-25

writing on a manual typewriter – (non)material text by Keith Tam on 2020-05-01

What is the Typosphere?<br /> https://typosphere.blogspot.com/p/what-is-typosphere.html

Kaste, Martin. “An Ode To Clicky Keys.” NPR, January 30, 2009, sec. Driveway Moments. https://www.npr.org/2009/01/30/99950176/an-ode-to-clicky-keys.

Read 2023-12-18

https://web.archive.org/web/20110312035526/http://www.strikethru.net/2009/01/typecast-in-which-some-visual-effects.html

2023-12-18 read

https://handwiki.org/wiki/Typecasting_(blogging)

Read 2023-12-18

https://amsterdamassassin.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/typecast-my-royal-fp-steampunk/

https://dead.garden/blog/this-post-was-typewritten.html

https://tracydurnell.com/2023/11/30/building-community-out-of-strangers/

Amen!

Yes!

Wow! Heptabase digital garden is possible with this plugin from Jiang (GitHub) 數位花園 網站 部落格 blog website

Try using Heptabase; learn of its pros and cons against Obsidian #todo

Couldn't agree more! Digital Garden vs Blogging: key difference

I concur!

想知道這些其他方案的缺點在哪。我自己用的是免費的Obsidian digital garden來Publish部落格。

Preserving Harvard’s Blogging History by Matt Mullenweg<br /> October 2, 2023 https://ma.tt/2023/10/preserving-harvards-blogging-history/

reply to u/RobThomasBouchard at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/16v8tfq/starting_a_blog/

The answer is:<br /> D: Start a "blog" where you post your notes as status updates and interlink them a bit. When you've got enough, you organize them into a mini thesis and write a longer article/blog post about it.

Examples: - https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich?q=tag%3A%22thought%20spaces%22 and - https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book#The_IndieWeb_site_as_a_Commonplace_book

tl;dr: Use your website like a public, online zettelkasten. 🕸️🗃️

https://henribergotte.wordpress.com/

WordPress.com blog with examples of typecasting (blogging).

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/16op0ss/anyone_else_using_their_typewriter_for_social/

Core reason why companies have their engineering blogs

I agree that reading is a key part of writing.

The future of blogging in the AI ​​era, how can we unleash the SEO potential? https://en.itpedia.nl/2023/06/11/de-toekomst-van-bloggen-in-het-ai-tijdperk-hoe-kunnen-we-het-seo-potentieel-ontketenen/ Let's take a look at the future of #blogging in the #AI_era. Does a blogging website still have a future now that visitors can find the answer directly in the browser? Or should we use #AI to improve our #weblog. Can AI help us improve our blog's #SEO?

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http://tamaroszettelkasten.blogspot.com/

Example of a blog being kept as a zettelkasten....

Autobibliographie annotée (2018-2022) <br /> by Arthur Perret on 2023-02-20 (accessed:: 2023-02-24 11:30:20)

Perret looks back at several years of blogposts and comments on his growth over the intervening years. This sort of practice and providing indicators of best posts is an interesting means of digital gardening.

One of the benefits of journaling on an index card is that the small space is much less intimidating than a large blank sheet, particularly when one isn't in the mood but feels like they ought to write. This is similar to the idea that many people find that microblogs (Twitter, Mastodon, Tumblr) are much easier to maintain than a long form blog.

Blogs as digital commonplace books

Ha, I've been here before...

Relatable

https://cplong.org/2023/01/return-to-blogging/<br /> reply to https://hcommons.social/@sramsay/109660599682539192

IndieWeb, blogging, fountain pens?!? I almost hate to mention it for the rabbit hole it may become, but: https://micro.blog/discover/pens. Happy New Year!

https://startafuckingblog.com/

Ryan along with Ash created https://bringback.blog/

https://ooh.directory/

And this, in part, is just what makes social readers so valuable: a tight(er) integration of a reading and conversational interface.

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/8/mastodon-is-just-blogs/

https://tinysubversions.com/spooler/

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Darius Kazemi</span> in Darius Kazemi: "thread unroller apps" - Friend Camp (<time class='dt-published'>11/16/2022 08:27:44</time>)</cite></small>

https://micro.blog/manton/14045523

@manton When I was looking at Fediverse instances the other day I noticed that one of the biggest platforms within it was Write.as, which are more blog centric. Is there a better/easier way for m.b. to federate/interact or serve as a reader for that part of the ecosystem? Perhaps worth exploring?

https://nicheless.blog/

https://ibogost.substack.com/p/all-i-want-is-a-place-to-quip

writing, but to what end and for what audience?

Why not keep a waste book like Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and simply publish it? Do you need the approbation?

https://getblogging.org/

A Ben Werdmuller joint

https://werd.io/2022/the-blog-is-back

Practice informs tool choice, tools do influence practice in return, and can become 'favourites' temporarily as exploration, but also long term. Here I'd say Harold's blogging is a practice more than a technology.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161201164608/http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6286/adam-phillips-the-art-of-nonfiction-no-7-adam-phillips

Another example to link to: https://hypothes.is/a/yEFMHoCkEeyl34fItJe__w

"Playful" activity as inherently "free" and actively necessary - compare to earlier sentence about whether that's "appropriate in the formal requirements" of a job.

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ayjay/an-announcement-1407661

What is the size of a single thought?

500 words is about the size of a typical blog post. It's also about the size of a minimum recommended post for SEO purposes.

Nice to see his link to Steven Johnson here as I think this is where I've seen similar thoughts recently myself.

AI text generator, a boon for bloggers? A test report

While I wanted to investigate AI text generators further, I ended up writing a testreport.. I was quite stunned because the AI ​​text generator turns out to be able to create a fully cohesive and to-the-point article in minutes. Here is the test report.

Winnie later goes on to point out that this is much like gardening: it is a slow process, and the process has its seasons which wax and wane, expanding and contracting. You sow. You seed. You water. You fertilize. You wait. You pick weeds. You water. Pick some more weeds. You might prune. You flick off the japanese beetles. And because of the cyclical nature of the planet we inhabit, we also have periods where nothing grows, and the soil lies dormant. Waiting. Resting. This, too, can be embraced as we carve out our little corners of the web, and really all aspects of our lives. I know I'm nearly as tender to myself as I should be.

https://climbtothestars.org/archives/2022/07/13/22-years-ago/

Many people treat their blogging practice as an experimental thought space. They try out new ideas, explore a small space, attempt to come to understanding, connect new ideas to their existing ideas.

Ton Zylstra coins/uses the phrase "metablogging" to think about his blogging practice as an evolving thought space.

How can we better distill down these sorts of longer ideas and use them to create more collisions between ideas to create new an innovative ideas? What forms might this take?

The personal zettelkasten is a more concentrated form of this and blogging is certainly within the space as are the somewhat more nascent digital gardens. What would some intermediary "idea crucible" between these forms look like in public that has a simple but compelling interface. How much storytelling and contextualization is needed or not needed to make such points?

Is there a better space for progressive summarization here so that an idea can be more fully laid out and explored? Then once the actual structure is built, the scaffolding can be pulled down and only the idea remains.

Reminiscences of scaffolding can be helpful for creating context.

Consider the pyramids of Giza and the need to reverse engineer how they were built. Once the scaffolding has been taken down and history forgets the methods, it's not always obvious what the original context for objects were, how they were made, what they were used for. Progressive summarization may potentially fall prey to these effects as well.

How might we create a "contextual medium" which is more permanently attached to ideas or objects to help prevent context collapse?

How would this be applied in reverse to better understand sites like Stonehenge or the hundreds of other stone circles, wood circles, and standing stones we see throughout history.

This is a good enough reason of any to blog.

This does make me wonder again, how much of this particular book might be found in various forms on Forte's website, much of which is behind a paywall at $10 a month or $100 a year?

It's become more common in the past decades for writers to turn their blogs into books and then use their platform to sell those books.

https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/06/adding-an-index/

Tonz has an index now too!

The blog killed online gardens in some sense because of it's time-ordered stream of content. While it was generally a slower moving stream than that of social media platforms like Twitter which came later, it was still a stream.

https://colinwalker.blog/?date=2022-03-08#p2

Some interesting looking female bloggers listed here.

https://cagrimmett.com/thoughts/2022/04/26/why-blog/

A great essay on why bog!

-Chuck Grimmett

Part of the question about the ordering of posts on a website comes down first to what the actual content is. Is it posts, pages, articles about particular topics, short notes?

Most blogs typically default to a particular time ordered display, but also provide search and archives for content by topical headings (tags/categories) as well. Digital gardens and wikis are set up with no particular hierarchies and one is encouraged to wander. Most social media notes and photos are created in a time only order.

There aren't enough online zettelkasten yet to look at what that might entail, though affordances there are likely to be similar to that of digital gardens which let you pick out something via keyword and then follow links from one thing to the next.

These are interesting questions for publishers as much as they are from anticipating what one's intended or imagined audience might be looking for.

https://friend.camp/@tripofmice/108204831637556657

Early modern reference works, handbooks, and pedagogical practices created a sort of standardized set of subject headings amongst note takers.

A similar sort of effort could have been seen in the blogosphere of the early 2000s in which Technorati and their search functionality may have helped to standardize some of these same sorts of taxonomic issues within their product which was widely used at the time.

Blogs

Blogging is a form of public note sharing that isn't dissimilar to seventeenth-century note sharing practices in group settings.

https://fogknife.com/2022-02-27-going-silent-for-a-while.html

https://book.micro.blog/

Bromwich, Kathryn. ‘How Long Covid Forced Me to Confront My Past and My Identity’. The Observer, 8 November 2020, sec. World news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/08/how-long-covid-forced-me-to-confront-my-past-and-my-identity.

Ideas fill their spaces.

When writing it can be daunting to see a long blank screen and feel like you've got to fill it up with ideas de novo.

From the other perspective if you're starting with a smaller space like a Twitter input box or index card you may find that you write too much and require the ability to edit things down to fit the sparse space.

I do quite like the small space provided by Hypothes.is which has the ability to expand and scroll as you write so that it has the Goldilocks feel of not too small, not too big, but "just right".

Micro.blog has a feature that starts with a box that can grow with the content. Once going past 280 characters it also adds an optional input box to give the post a title if one wants it to be an article rather than a simple note.

Link to idea of Occamy from the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that can grow or shrink to fit the available space: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Occamy

https://jon.bo/posts/can-blogging-be-simple/

Syndicated copy: https://twitter.com/jondotbo/status/1475581785874612234

Has some hint of the IndieWeb space here. My first thought is of micro.blog---for a reasonable subscription price it's relatively easy for folks to get started and allow customization and flexibility if they want/need it.

It also tries to meet users where they're at, so if you've already got a site you can still participate and it can provide services one may not want to self-host like a social reader, webmentions, micropub, etc.

To encourage people to write its UI starts out with short Twitter like notes, and if you keep writing, it provides you with a "title" field to turn a post into an article.

This is a great example of a "Year in Review" post.

This is exactly the intersection that I have seen and thought about for a long time. If David Perell sees this as a gap that intellectuals can fill, then I am definitely onto something.

https://jamesg.blog/2021/12/01/advent-of-bloggers-1/

The idea of an Advent of Bloggers is a heartwarming one. Reminiscent of N-day challenges: https://indieweb.org/100_days#December_and_or_24_Days

https://www.amazon.com/Blog-Paper-Advanced-Taking-Technology/dp/1926892100/

Doing some research for my Paper Website / Blog.

Similar to some of the pre-printed commonplace books of old particularly with respect to the tag and tag index sections.

I sort of like that it is done in a way that makes it useful for general life even if one isn't going to use it as a "blog".

How can I design mine to be easily photographed and transferred to an actual blog, particularly with Micropub in mind?

Don't forget space for the blog title and tagline. What else might one put on the front page(s) for identity? Name, photo, address, lost/found info, website URL (naturally)...

Anything else I might want to put in the back besides an category index or a tag index? (Should it have both?)

What if it isn't news, but infotainment. I'll bet that most of these shows are talking heads doing analysis. They're really well paid bloggers talking about the days news.

Written in 2004, this is on the cusp of the growth of blogging and obviously predates the general time frame of social media and the rise of social annotation. Personal notes can now be shared more widely and have much larger publics.

So very few modern sources describe annotation or note taking in these terms.

I find often in my annotations, the most recent one just above is such a one, where I start with a tiny kernel of an idea and then my brain begins warming up and I put down some additional thoughts. These can sometimes build and turn into multiple sentences or paragraphs, other times they sit and need further work. But either way, with some work they may turn into something altogether different than what the original author intended or discussed.

These are the things I want to keep, expand upon, and integrate into larger works or juxtapose with other broader ideas and themes in the things I am writing about.

Sadly, we're just not teaching students or writers these tidbits or habits anymore.

Sönke Ahrens mentions this idea in his book about Smart Notes. When one is asked to write an essay or a paper it is immensely difficult to have a perch on which to begin. But if one has been taking notes about their reading which is of direct interest to them and which can be highly personal, then it is incredibly easy to have a starting block against which to push to begin what can be either a short sprint or a terrific marathon.

This pattern can be seen by many bloggers who surf a bit of the web, read what others have written, and use those ideas and spaces as a place to write or create their own comments.

Certainly this can involve some work, but it's always nicer when the muses visit and the words begin to flow.

I've now written so much here in this annotation that this note here, is another example of this phenomenon.

With some hope, by moving this annotation into my commonplace book (or if you prefer the words notebook, blog, zettelkasten, digital garden, wiki, etc.) I will have it to reflect and expand upon later, but it'll also be a significant piece of text which I might move into a longer essay and edit a bit to make a piece of my own.

With luck, I may be able to remedy some of the modern note taking treatises and restore some of what we've lost from older traditions to reframe them in an more logical light for modern students.

I recall being lucky enough to work around teachers insisting I use note cards and references in my sixth grade classes, but it was never explained to me exactly what this exercise was meant to engender. It was as if they were providing the ingredients for a recipe, but had somehow managed to leave off the narrative about what to do with those ingredients, how things were supposed to be washed, handled, prepared, mixed, chopped, etc. I always felt that I was baking blind with no directions as to temperature or time. Fortunately my memory for reading on shorter time scales was better than my peers and it was only that which saved my dishes from ruin.

I've come to see note taking as beginning expanded conversations with the text on the page and the other texts in my notebooks. Annotations in the the margins slowly build to become something else of my own making.

We might compare this with the more recent movement of social annotation in the digital pedagogy space. This serves a related master, but seems a bit more tangent to it. The goal of social annotation seems to be to help engage students in their texts as a group. Reading for many of these students may be more foreign than it is to me and many other academics who make trade with it. Thus social annotation helps turn that reading into a conversation between peers and their text. By engaging with the text and each other, they get something more out of it than they might have if left to their own devices. The piece I feel is missing here is the modeling of the next several steps to the broader commonplacing tradition. Once a student has begun the path of allowing their ideas to have sex with the ideas they find on the page or with their colleagues, what do they do next? Are they being taught to revisit their notes and ideas? Sift them? Expand upon them. Place them in a storehouse of their best materials where they can later be used to write those longer essays, chapters, or books which may benefit them later?

How might we build these next pieces into these curricula of social annotation to continue building on these ideas and principles?

It dawns on me that in some sense small illustrations and images in a mnemonic like manner are what Dave Winer is doing on his blog.

https://jrdingwall.ca/blogwall/25-years-of-ed-tech-blogs/

JR writes about some of his journey into blogging.

I appreciate some of the last part about the 9x9x25 blogs. For JR it seems like some smaller prompts got him into more regular writing.

He mentions Stephen Downes regular workflow as well. I think mine is fairly similar to Stephen's. To some extent, I write much more on my own website now than I ever had before. This is because I post a lot more frequently to my own site, in part because it's just so easy to do. I'll bookmark things or post about what I've recently read or watched. My short commentary on some of these is just that, short commentary. But occasionally I discover, depending on the subject, that those short notes and bookmark posts will spring into something bigger or larger. Sometimes it's a handful of small posts over a few days or weeks that ultimately inspires the longer thing. The key seems to be to write something.

Perhaps a snowball analogy will work. I take a tiny snowball and give it a proverbial roll. Sometimes it sits there and other times it rolls down the hill and turns into a much larger snowball. Other times I get a group of them and build a full snowman.

Of course lately a lot of my writing starts, like this did, as an annotation (using Hypothes.is) to something I was reading. It then posts to my website with some context and we're off to the races.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/books/18montaigne.html

https://marksstorm.medium.com/working-notes-of-a-practising-neo-generalist-16-on-montaigne-and-how-to-remember-the-books-ff6d9f88d40b

This almost sounds like the creation of a wiki page, but in blog format.

Here's an example of a blogger using the idea of writing a blog as being in conversation with himself.

It obviously doesn't predate Niklas Luhmann's conversation with slip boxes, but the general tenor is certainly similar in form and function.

Want to Write a Book? You Probably Already Have!

Patrick Rhone

video

Paper is the best solution for the long term. If it's not on paper it can be important, if it's not it won't be.

Our writing is important. It is durable.

All we know about the past is what survived.

Analogy: coke:champaign glass::blogger:book

Converting one's blog into a book.

"The funny thing about minimalism is that there's only so much you can say."

Change the frame and suddenly you've changed the experience.

https://kimberlyhirsh.com/micro-camp-21

Can't wait for the video to share with others.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25305-2005Mar10.html

Reading back into the "good old days" of the early blogosphere in academia.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100304115714/http://www.unbsj.ca/arts/english/jones/mt/archives/2005/10/the_18thc_online_commonplace_b.html

An academic during the early part of the blogosphere analogizes blogs and early online culture to commonplace books, coffeehouse culture, and carnivals.