on xposting and long-form
Apr. 27th, 2011 03:32 pm21 days for Dreamwidth, #3
Do you crosspost? Why or why not?
I crosspost to Livejournal, because I like having readers and that's where most of my community is. Herd inertia is a strong force.
When I began posting primarily at DW I chose to leave LJ comments enabled because according to an informal poll of my readership I'd lose commenters if I disabled comments on the LJ side. And I'm far too attached to the feedback and interaction I get from comments to do something that would get in its way.
This is part of why I've not really taken to Twitter, or Facebook. Not only are they not set up for long-form blogging of the kind I strongly prefer (both reading and writing), they're not set up for in-depth conversations. Twitter's better about those than FB is, but Twitter still doesn't lend itself to thoughtful measured responses.
The golden age of LJ had its share of pure surface frippery ("8:00 I lost my hairbrush" "8:05 Oh, there it is"). It also had more people writing longer bits because that's what the available platform supported. I miss that. "Longer" doesn't have to mean thousand-word screeds, it can be a paragraph or two. Something that's got a bit more reflection to it than just a nominally-witty phrase or "so i was at this thing tonight."
Also, you kids should get off my lawn.
Do you crosspost? Why or why not?
I crosspost to Livejournal, because I like having readers and that's where most of my community is. Herd inertia is a strong force.
When I began posting primarily at DW I chose to leave LJ comments enabled because according to an informal poll of my readership I'd lose commenters if I disabled comments on the LJ side. And I'm far too attached to the feedback and interaction I get from comments to do something that would get in its way.
This is part of why I've not really taken to Twitter, or Facebook. Not only are they not set up for long-form blogging of the kind I strongly prefer (both reading and writing), they're not set up for in-depth conversations. Twitter's better about those than FB is, but Twitter still doesn't lend itself to thoughtful measured responses.
The golden age of LJ had its share of pure surface frippery ("8:00 I lost my hairbrush" "8:05 Oh, there it is"). It also had more people writing longer bits because that's what the available platform supported. I miss that. "Longer" doesn't have to mean thousand-word screeds, it can be a paragraph or two. Something that's got a bit more reflection to it than just a nominally-witty phrase or "so i was at this thing tonight."
Also, you kids should get off my lawn.