Blogging thoughts on May 26, 2016

I struggle to follow threads or conversations on Twitter. It's too clunky, at least when viewing Twitter with a web browser and not being logged into the site. Maybe the bad UX disappears when viewing Twitter from a native app. I don't know. I don't need a Twitter native app.

https://twitter.com/mncahill/status/735835781856690176

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/735841140952420355

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/735835343694495744

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/735835122008793088

https://twitter.com/davewiner/status/735834952005193728

DW preaches support for the open web ( #indieweb ), but he posts a lot at Twitter and maybe elsewhere with his thoughts not being posted back on his own website.

The Indie Web spammers, as Winer calls them, post on their own personal sites first and then syndicate elsewhere. Indie Web users conduct conversations on Twitter from their own personal websites.

Excerpts from tweets by DW and others:

A big part of blogging is technology. With the tech industry controlling the technology, i.e. not open, we can't evolve the tools.

The problem is that Blogging was at the beginning a simple publishing means. Over time it has been overcomplicated.

I totally agree. WordPress et al are WAY too complicated. That's why I've been working on a reboot of blogging sw.

They all seem to go down the :"All things to all people" content management path. Now it's good for content management but it leaves normal users behind.

That's one reason why the Ghost blogging tool was conceptualized in 2012 and released in 2013 because Wordpress was considered to be a CMS tool and not a blogging tool.

Ironically, Ghost has grown, and now in 2016, it has become more of a CMS tool, instead of a simple blogging app.

When Ghost started, it seemed that users wanted everything. I would have responded by saying: Use Wordpress.