Classic... Good post! I don't think you have the franchise on wanting someone else to write your posts for you ;-)
John Honovich
· 12 months ago
Hi Paul,
I am a big fan of your blog posts and I miss seeing them (like ideas vs execution, optimizing everything, etc.). Indeed, I think the best aspect was that you were "arguing a point."
While wikis are great for summarizing existing knowledge and twits/feeds are good for update and references, I don't think it's any replacement for carefully thought original analysis and recommendations.
Many topics, especially evolving issues, are sufficiently complex that only people with sufficient expertise and experience can properly explain and argue the case for them.
My concern is that your lack of blogging not only losses an important voice for the rest of us but also indicates a trend of leading online thinkers away from careful and well thought out analysis.
Cheers,
john
Paul Graham
· 12 months ago
deniable -> deniability :-)
bootload
· 12 months ago
"... I post a lot of things over on FriendFeed, which is easier, and I'm lazy ..."
Why not cross-post your FF posts here via a script instead of the squashed up widget?
inerte
· 12 months ago
Great, so blogs are coming back to be personal diaries :)
I say go for it. Don't think too much. I was just revisiting some comments I wrote on Reddit, some were truly genius (I am humble), but most were complete shitty, I mean, they could be delete tomorrow and none would care. Gaza would still be bombed, Google would still sell ads, and I would still have sex with my girlfriend tomorrow.
And the truth is, that's life right there. None is 100% effective. Heck, writing good posts takes minutes, learning to write good posts take a lifetime. Just do it.
I wonder if this post will be regrettable in a few months. At least I can give the excuse that I drunk a few beers tonight.
nivi
· 12 months ago
I agree with John Honovich above. At the same time, I'm looking forward to the new blog. Anything that gets you blogging again is good. =)
Mark Krynsky
· 12 months ago
I love the plan Paul. I'm hoping to do the same next year. I spend way too much time thinking through my posts, along with editing and adding images and such. I'm hoping to do more brain dump posts just to get useful content out there. Thanks for reminding / reinforcing my thoughts on it.
Alex Graveley
· 12 months ago
For what it's worth, this post got me blogging again after about 6 months of inactivity. Of course I'm just blogging about microblogging, but hey, it's *something*: http://www.beatniksoftware.com/blog/?p=178.
slippylane
· 11 months ago
A wiki'd up blog? What a brilliant idea!
I think most of us probably get linked here from your posts on friendfeed anyway, so as a place to post stuff that's just too big for a friendfeed post, I think your current blog is eminently suitable, but I'd still love to see what you're going to come up with idea-wise for an editable blog. Is it still a personal project, or is there a chance it might come under the friendfeed umbrella-ella-ella?
Hutch Carpenter
· 11 months ago
One of these days, I'll have to give this a go. It'd be too hard to let go of my current break-it-down and analyze it approach. I'd probably get hives or something if I rambled.
All Comments
I am a big fan of your blog posts and I miss seeing them (like ideas vs execution, optimizing everything, etc.). Indeed, I think the best aspect was that you were "arguing a point."
While wikis are great for summarizing existing knowledge and twits/feeds are good for update and references, I don't think it's any replacement for carefully thought original analysis and recommendations.
Many topics, especially evolving issues, are sufficiently complex that only people with sufficient expertise and experience can properly explain and argue the case for them.
My concern is that your lack of blogging not only losses an important voice for the rest of us but also indicates a trend of leading online thinkers away from careful and well thought out analysis.
Cheers,
john
Why not cross-post your FF posts here via a script instead of the squashed up widget?
I say go for it. Don't think too much. I was just revisiting some comments I wrote on Reddit, some were truly genius (I am humble), but most were complete shitty, I mean, they could be delete tomorrow and none would care. Gaza would still be bombed, Google would still sell ads, and I would still have sex with my girlfriend tomorrow.
And the truth is, that's life right there. None is 100% effective. Heck, writing good posts takes minutes, learning to write good posts take a lifetime. Just do it.
I wonder if this post will be regrettable in a few months. At least I can give the excuse that I drunk a few beers tonight.
I think most of us probably get linked here from your posts on friendfeed anyway, so as a place to post stuff that's just too big for a friendfeed post, I think your current blog is eminently suitable, but I'd still love to see what you're going to come up with idea-wise for an editable blog. Is it still a personal project, or is there a chance it might come under the friendfeed umbrella-ella-ella?