Input wanted: posting short stuff

[kpreid]

I've been having a lot of thoughts lately I'd like to publish, but seem a little bit too short for A Blog Post. Some options

1. Considered signing up for Twitter. Pro: short stuff is expected there; participating in the hot new thing; people interested in short-form will be on twitter and using the follow feature. Con: Reliability problems; YA thing to manage credentials and backup for; no hyperlinks; my favorite username is taken.
2. I could post stuff here. Particularly, LJ supports titleless posts.
3. I could use some other site, or build my own publishing system. [er, why?]

On reflection, I'm thinking to just post the stuff here and not have yet-another-distinct-place/site.

Readers, what would you prefer?

(This post is tagged “lisp” solely so that Planet Lisp will pick it up.)

Comments

[laurent-atl.livejournal.com]

remember when you used to just go to the coffee machine and chat with whomever was there, in that sort of situation?

[(Anonymous)]

I use tumblr.com for that kind of stuff. But of course, for you that's yet-another-distinc-site.

For me, as a reader, having an RSS or Atom feed is enough for picking up what you're sending out.

Regards,
Linus N

[kpreid.livejournal.com]

Feeds, yes, certainly; the question is more whether putting the stuff in this feed would be too noisy.

Soup

[(Anonymous)]

soup.io (http://soup.io) is neat. Make sure you join the the Lisp soup (http://lisp.soup.io).

Re: Soup

[antifuchs.livejournal.com]

I second this recommendation. And the lisp soup joining one. Soup is made specifically for putting out lots of short stuff.

http://identi.ca

[mcg.livejournal.com]

Has a huge tech user base, runs on open software(if you care about such things), http://identi.ca/kpreid is available and you can run your own(http://status.net/).

[freiksenet.livejournal.com]

There is juick.com. It is dominated by russian speakers, but it is sort-of tweeter that allows interaction through jabber messenger.

[johan (from livejournal.com)]

...And hasn't 140-char limitation (actually, limit is 4000 chars), and it allows commenting (some threads often has over 200 comments).

Twitter

[(Anonymous)]

Hello!

Out of those options either Twitter or this site. If your short stuff is Twitter-short, I'd prefer it.

[vatine]

I suspect short-ish posts here may be the best option. Not everything needs to be massively long, but I do find that <= 140 characters is usually a bit short for other than making pleasant noise.

[myblog.rsynnott.com (from livejournal.com)]

It's your blog; I doubt anyone will object if you post whatever you want :)

Though it may be best to avoid title-less posts; they don't play nice with some readers and aggregators.

[kpreid.livejournal.com]

Huh. I hadn't realized that the 'first few words' display my reader gives for LJ's RSS feeds is generated by the reader, not LJ.

And the Atom feeds always have titles, but they're “journalname @ timestamp”.

[(Anonymous)]

Thumbs down to twitter. How about having a "short comments" or (in the style of the big bloggers) "open thread" post once in a while, then add comments to the comments thread as they occur to you.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm quite fond of tumblr and use it incessantly, but it's more for "check out this crazy shit I found today" among a band of friends rather than "here I post some deep thoughts for posterity". I haven't looked at soup or identi.ca, but why not just stick with posting here? We already keep up with it, and it has a nice commenting system.

[kpreid.livejournal.com]

For anyone interested in the outcome, I did sign up for Twitter (@switchborg (https://twitter.com/switchborg)), but I don't use it much, and I do post some not so much short as less significant stuff on Google+ (https://plus.google.com/118427525351956039673/posts).