Just finished getting the latest iteration of Open Conceptual presentable. My first post introducing the new phase is here.
So I figured, since I’m shifting things around a little, it’s time for a roundup of where I am on the web:
- 2 – 4 posts per week on average, usually around 800 words, fairly ambitious in terms of probing for original insights and synthesizing a lot of sources
- topics vary wildly: usually posts address very current events, controversies, general commentary, or personal updates (like this)
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- I’m aiming to post daily, usually shorter posts that just say something like, “Here’s something I think you should read, and here’s my own 2 cents on it.”
- the subject matter is broad, but the theme will always be about transforming business + government via creative thinking
- and when I say “creative thinking,” I mean really creative and really thinking…
- it’s foremost an attempt to build an enterprise; the blog comes second
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- 1-3 posts per week, as short as I can make them
- I started intending for it to be about bringing ideas about online innovation to London from elsewhere, turned out all of the discussion was about London, so I decided to move the “innovation” stuff to OpenConceptual and focus LDNbeta what’s happening in London
- the idea is either to hand this off to someone (or a group) or stop if someone starts doing it under another banner
- it’s foremost an attempt to cultivate a community; the blog is secondary
- infrequent posting
- autobiographical content, with somewhat literary aspirations; at the very least it’s a place to dump my self-searching monologs so my other blogs won’t be any more self-absorbed than they need to be
Something else I’m doing more now is posting links to FriendFeed rooms:
These are things I normally would have had to decide whether to save in Delicious, share in Google Reader and link to on Twitter, or do a full post on my blog. Sometimes I just want to say “here’s this” but also want to ask a question or add some context to it. On one hand, Twitter doesn’t give much room (or permanence) to build context around links. On the other hand, once I start writing I’m inclined to keep thinking until I arrive at a conclusion — about 800 words later.
So posting it to FriendFeed seems to be the best of all worlds: using the rooms makes it feel more like blogging… And even better, it’s more open to other people to do the same.
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