{"id":12044,"date":"2018-04-12T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T23:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2019-12-24T08:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T16:17:18","slug":"another-attempt-at-revitalizing-my-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2018\/04\/12\/another-attempt-at-revitalizing-my-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Another attempt at revitalizing my blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2452,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/micro.blog\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260303191615\\\/https:\\\/\\\/micro.blog\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 12:47:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:06:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:34:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:51:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:51:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2551,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/inessential.com\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/08\\\/why_i_use_micro_blog&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231211032824\\\/https:\\\/\\\/inessential.com\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/08\\\/why_i_use_micro_blog&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 16:15:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:06:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:34:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:51:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:51:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2552,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/macgenie.micro.blog\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/10\\\/a-guide-to.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210514214601\\\/https:\\\/\\\/macgenie.micro.blog\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/10\\\/a-guide-to.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 16:15:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:06:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 17:27:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 17:27:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2553,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cultofmac.com\\\/540623\\\/quit-facebook-twitter&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cultofmac.com\\\/how-to\\\/quit-facebook-twitter&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2554,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pinboard.in\\\/u:djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260304162142\\\/https:\\\/\\\/pinboard.in\\\/u:djwudi&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 01:15:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 07:43:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:34:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 01:34:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2114,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ifttt.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302164518\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ifttt.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 22:00:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:06:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 13:00:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 09:53:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 15:27:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 15:27:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:709,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/wordpress.org\\\/plugins\\\/postalicious&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251207081651\\\/https:\\\/\\\/wordpress.org\\\/plugins\\\/postalicious\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 11:44:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 07:01:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:15:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 02:06:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 19:05:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 19:16:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 14:20:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 14:20:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1371,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/projects\\\/markdown&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260228032930\\\/https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/projects\\\/markdown\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 12:55:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 11:38:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 04:24:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 12:58:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:06:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:20:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 11:41:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 11:41:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2555,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/ulyssesapp.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180624003752\\\/https:\\\/\\\/ulyssesapp.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 16:19:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 08:52:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 15:00:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:15:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:15:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2556,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/help.micro.blog\\\/2016\\\/cross-posting-twitter&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200617041148\\\/https:\\\/\\\/help.micro.blog\\\/2016\\\/cross-posting-twitter\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 16:19:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:06:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 02:06:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2557,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260302013750\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 16:19:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 16:19:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2558,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/apps-of-a-feather.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240101094630\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.apps-of-a-feather.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 16:19:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:15:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 09:15:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>For some time now, I\u2019ve (mostly privately, sometimes \u201cout loud\u201d (which could mean either actually talking to people, or in online text ramblings)) been lamenting how rarely I\u2019ve actually been posting to my blog. For the past years, various forms of social networking sites and applications \u2014 primarily Facebook and Twitter \u2014 have done a good job of monopolizing my online interactions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not all bad, really, as they\u2019re great ways to keep in touch with friends, and I\u2019m not making any sort of \u201cquitting social media\u201d declaration. But concentrating on those spaces has meant that <em>this<\/em> space, where I\u2019ve been posting in one form or another for over two decades (seriously: my oldest \u201cblog post\u201d is dated <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/1995\/12\/29\/from-the-archives-122995-0313\/\" title=\"From the Archives: 12.19.95 0313\">December 29, 1995<\/a> and was posted back when I was still hand-coding; I have earlier posts entered into the blog, but they\u2019re ports of old Usenet posts), hasn\u2019t been getting much attention at all. And, as importantly, if not a bit more so, it means that virtually all of the writing and content creation I\u2019ve done over these past years has been going to sites other than my own.<\/p>\n<p>So going forward from here, I\u2019m going to make a more concerted effort to make this blog the central, canonical repository of my online ramblings. I\u2019ll still comment and get into discussions on Facebook and Twitter, but this is where all (well\u2026most all\u2026) content should appear first and will canonically reside, even as it\u2019s mirrored elsewhere so that I\u2019m not simply disappearing from those other spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how I have things set up at the moment:<\/p>\n<h2>In brief (Twitter)<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/micro.blog\/djwudi\" title=\"micro.blog: djwudi\">micro.blog<\/a> account, which is tied to both this blog and my Twitter accounts (I heard about micro.blog from a few places, including articles by <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2018\/04\/08\/why_i_use_micro_blog\" title=\"inessential: Why I use micro.blog\">Brent Simmons<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/macgenie.micro.blog\/2018\/04\/10\/a-guide-to.html\" title=\"MacGenie: A Guide to Micro.blog for People Who Have A Love\/Hate Relationship With Twitter\">Jean McDonald<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/540623\/quit-facebook-twitter\/\" title=\"How to leave Facebook and Twitter while staying social\">Charlie Sorrel<\/a>). So now, when I have something quick and simple to say, it posts to my blog first as a post with no title, then picked up (via RSS) by micro.blog and piped to Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n<h2>Look here (links)<\/h2>\n<p>When I find interesting links, I\u2019m posting them to my <a href=\"https:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:djwudi\" title=\"Pinboard (djwudi)\">pinboard account<\/a> \u2014\u00a0this is something I\u2019ve been doing (off and on) for some time now, I\u2019m just trying to be better about doing it consistently. If I want a saved link to post to Twitter or Facebook quickly, I give it either the <code>.twitter<\/code> or <code>.fb<\/code> tag respectively, which are picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/\" title=\"IFTTT: If This Then That\">IFTTT<\/a> and piped to the correct site. Otherwise, the (apparently abandoned, but still quite functional) <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/postalicious\/\" title=\"Wordpress Plugins: Postalicious\">Postalicious<\/a> WordPress plugin occasionally catches any recent links I\u2019ve saved and creates a digest-style post for my blog.<\/p>\n<h2>Rambling on (blog posts)<\/h2>\n<p>If I have something more in-depth to say \u2014 like, oh, a few paragraphs on how I\u2019m trying to start blogging regularly again, and brief explanations of the tools and services I\u2019m using to start doing that \u2014\u00a0then those posts get written (in <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/projects\/markdown\/\" title=\"Daring Fireball: Markdown\">Markdown<\/a> format, using <a href=\"https:\/\/ulyssesapp.com\" title=\"Ulysses\">Ulysses<\/a> on either my Mac, iPhone, or iPad) and posted here. Not long after they show up here, micro.blog picks them up, creates a post that links back here, and then that goes to Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s technically possible to just connect WordPress to Twitter and Facebook without using micro.blog as a middle step, but micro.blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/help.micro.blog\/2016\/cross-posting-twitter\/\" title=\"micro.blog: Cross-posting to Twitter and Facebook\">smarter about how it cross-posts<\/a> than WordPress is alone. Without this step, every post would show up as a truncated excerpt and a link back to the blog; this way, that\u2019s only the end result if a post is long enough to make that necessary, and shorter posts just appear to be \u201cnative\u201d to whichever platform they\u2019re seen on.<\/p>\n<p>Will this system keep me going the way I hope it does? Only time will tell. But between Facebook\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal\" title=\"Wikipedia: Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal\">Cambridge Analytica privacy mess<\/a> and Twitter looking more and more like it\u2019s going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/apps-of-a-feather.com\" title=\"Apps of a Feather\">killing third-party clients soon<\/a>, I\u2019m hoping I have enough motivation to actually keep this going, rather than falling back into the ease and convenience of staying inside Facebook or Twitter\u2019s ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not leaving social media, but I am going to be making a concerted effort to try to come back to making my blog the primary canonical source of my content. These are the tools and services I\u2019m using to keep an active social media presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043],"tags":[241,1645,1457],"class_list":["post-12044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-twitter","tag-ulysses","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}