Would you look at that, two posts back to back! Well, kind of. I want to anounce a few changes for the site and my life. Going forward I will start to microblog here. These will be small posts that shouldn’t go over 700 words. I am doing this because there’s a wide range of things I’d like to comment on, but there’s not enough meat for a full blown post. This also has the bonus of encouraging people to check here more often. There will be more things to read, even if they’re shorter.
My goal is to do 5 posts a week. This includes a major article, should I have one ready. Yes, I will still do my longer articles like the one I just did. That one took a long time to write because I had to research a lot of things. Some of which weren’t added to the article but were used to confirm what I was posting. Despite never posting my sources I do heavy amounts of researching. This can cause massive delays between posts, especially with me constantly having health issues. Like I said, I will still work on the major articles. I’m going to try for at least 1 major article a month. I am hoping to increase it to 2 and then eventually 3.
One of the things I’ve done to help me reach this goal is quitting social media. I found I was wasting all of my time on Twitter. Sometimes I would tweet out things that could’ve been a microblog on my website driving traffic towards me instead of driving traffic towards Silicon Valley. It’s time I start to practice what I preach. I am doing my best to limit big tech and to take back what I can of the internet, and I strongly encourage others to do so. I have also re-opened my old forums. If you want to join them and discuss random things with those of us there feel free to join at https://forums.elvenmonk.net. Should you wish to communicate with me you’ll need to either comment on one of my posts using Disqus or join my forums.
I’m no longer checking my Twitter DMs. I am now only using my Twitter to post updates for my forums and site. My hope is by microblogging more I’ll get better at writing and organizing my thoughts. One of the biggest snags for me is editing. The last post took a long time for me to edit. While editing it I was fixing tons of weird mistakes and poorly written ideas. I’m hoping by microblogging more I will streamline my editing skills and eventually improve the overall quality of my first drafts.
Take care everyone, and see ya tomorrow. I won’t update on weekends, unless it’s something major. This means next week will be the first attempt at 5 posts in a week. Oooo… Exciting. Fun fact, this is less than 500 words but over 2.5k characters. This is why Twitter isn’t a microblogging platform, but a platform for arguing.