Tom Morris



2006.06.27

  No. 251 


These things are spectacularly annoying too.
2006-06-27T13:40:54ZUntitled entry permalink

exchristian.net, a site I really like, just annoyed the living fuck out of me when this entry appeared in my aggregator. We need to stop this stupid "embed video and Flash in RSS" bullshit before it really takes off and my aggregator becomes as horrible as a MySpace page. In the meantime, I've unsubscribed. Anyone who embeds things which auto-play I will simply stop reading. I haven't got time for this crap. 2006-06-27T13:01:07ZUntitled entry permalink

James has made a Cow Contraption for the Open Irish Directory. I have a feeling that James is going to be excited about what's going to happen next. 2006-06-27T11:46:34ZUntitled entry permalink

Title-free 2006-06-27T13:48:44ZPermalink

Yes, we're not just "title-less", we're blissfully "title-free". Modern blogging software like Wordpress has become such a horrible mess that it's nearly impossible to do an untitled post.

As a result, people need to fret over how to post short, untitled posts. Untitled posts are not "asides". They're blog posts. It's these super-long articles that have been impersonating blog posts that are the problem.

Del.icio.us does not count as a replacement. Del.icio.us is a replacement for our long bookmark menus. You can't post short, snarky one-line posts with del.icio.us. Why is it that nobody except me, Dave and about three other people can grasp that if you post something like "Glenn Reynolds said something interesting about Iraq" (or whatever), you don't need a title. We don't need to recreate the newspaper or the magazine. We need to keep this medium running in a way so that people can write how they want to write, not how Matt Mullenweg or Ben and Mena Trott or Google or anybody else wants them to write.

You're writing a blog, not a damn textbook. Keep it short, keep it simple and keep it uncomplicated. Something which most of the major blog vendors seem totally incapable of understanding - which is quite funny, since they're in the business. Blogging needs to be simple enough so that it becomes like an ordinary bodily function - eating, drinking, walking, excreting, procreating and so on.

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