I tended to make infrequent, long posts, which didn't seem to work as well in practice as it ought to have done in theory. If I can train myself to feel OK with making posts of appropriate length, and recognising that it's OK to make short posts when they're appropriate
I hear that.
It's really hard to get around the idea that a post of a few paragraphs, sometimes with a supporting link or two, is frequently more effective and more likely to be read than a long essay with many many links.
It just feels wrong, but the web seems to prefer brevity interspersed with exposition. I've been quiet on the blogs I contribute to for awhile now, I think partially because I'm trying too hard to write perfect posts—I look at the stuff I was writing in 2006 and want to be as good as that.
Which is daft, I wasn't trying to be great then, it just sometimes ended up being so. Ah well.
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Date: 2009-04-21 03:46 pm (UTC)It's really hard to get around the idea that a post of a few paragraphs, sometimes with a supporting link or two, is frequently more effective and more likely to be read than a long essay with many many links.
It just feels wrong, but the web seems to prefer brevity interspersed with exposition. I've been quiet on the blogs I contribute to for awhile now, I think partially because I'm trying too hard to write perfect posts—I look at the stuff I was writing in 2006 and want to be as good as that.
Which is daft, I wasn't trying to be great then, it just sometimes ended up being so. Ah well.