My longer posts on Micro.blog

I’ve been posting on Micro.blog since August 2018. As the name suggests, it’s a micro-blogging platform. Posts of 280 characters or less appear in their entirety in the timeline of anyone who is following you. You’re not limited to 280 characters, however. If a longer post has a title, that title will be displayed in the timeline, otherwise, the post will be truncated with a link to the full text. I tend to keep my posts to 280 characters or less (essentially using Micro.blog as a friendlier alternative to Twitter) but every now and then I post something longer. Because I buy blog hosting from Micro.blog (at $5 a month), my posts on the platform constitute a regular blog. Below, I list the more substantial pieces I’ve posted there that I think might, or should, have some longevity.

• 21-Mar-2020 Not posting, but writing
• 14-Jul-2019 Find stories to read on Medium without subscribing
• 15-Jun-2019 Medium’s paywall
• 22-May-2019 You win or you die? (The conclusion of Game of Thrones)
• 11-May-2019 Critics respond to (slightly exaggerated) rumours of the death of the book review. (I’ve since revisited this question on this site.)
• 27-Apr-2019 Is Garret Camp’s Mix growing to resemble its parent? (The parent being StumbleUpon.)
• 15-Nov-2018 How I came to love the author-date method of citation
• 15-Nov-2018 Why I don’t (entirely) agree with Nikitonsky about Medium. (Nikitonsky argued — in a post on Medium — that Medium is a poor choice for bloggers.)

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Posted by Art on 26-Oct-2019; updated 22-Mar-2020.