fighting the lack of good ideas
As I mentioned a while back, I am maintaining a merikebi for myself of as much of my public internet content as possible. The initial seeding of content was done via WordPress import. Then I added a dump from Pocket of everything I’d saved there. Lastly, to keep it going, I made a few IFTTT…
I maintain (to greater or lesser extents) 3 blogs currently: https://blog.warrenmyers.com https://paragraph.cf https://antipaucity.com I keep the first and last segmented so I can more easily find things I’ve written or reposted about Christianity, religion, and the Bible, and everything else. The middle one I keep to demo the WordPress plugin I wrote – Paragraph. But…
you blogged as often as you tweeted, facebooked, linkedinned, instagrammed, plogged, pinterested, google plussed, mastodonned, etc? For many of us, that would be 4, 10, 20, 100, or even more blog posts per day. Wonder how differently we would view/utilize social media if we took that approach? Just a thought.
Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, Â I’ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter’s 140. And I was thinking, “what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less /…
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As promised last time, I now have a page dedicated to the WordPress plugins I use. Check it out, here.
Like my list of used Chrome Extensions, I’m building a list of recommended WordPress plugins. But until I get it done, I have to give some pretty big props to PrettyPress. It’s a plugin that lets you edit in Visual, Text, and Markdown – the markup format of sites like reddit, GitHub,, GitLab, and the…
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Or maybe he’s right. But for the wrong reason. Over on Medium, which is where I saw his post, Dave said: “The problem of requiring HTTPs in less than 140 chars: 1.Few benefits for blog-like sites, and 2. The costs are prohibitive. There’s actually a #3 (sorry) — 3. For sites where the owner is…