Two things about posting

[andrewducker]

1) If you have the delicious blog poster running, and have been wondering how to stop it posting repeatedly on your journal, then sadly the answer is to change your journal password, because something is badly fucked over there, and they aren't responding to bug reports or forum postings. Whoever is in the process of taking it over from Yahoo is utterly incompetent by the looks of things. I'll be triggering a post by hand when I get back home tonight.

2) According to my poll from a few days back, one of the biggest reasons for people not posting is that they don't feel comfortable posting short things. For goodness sake, post them! And if goodness isn't good enough, post them for my sake! Don't feel you need a mega-epic of polished awesomeness to share, just tell us what's going on with you.

My update for the weekend mostly involved hacking with Google App Engine to get the first half of a program in place to allow posting from Delicious to Livejournal*, and going to the Edinburgh Festival Closing Fireworks with Julie, and a few lovely friends/family. Tonight Julie and I are off to meet a wedding photographer. Yay!

*This is taking longer than it would if I was just hacking something basic into place. If you want something for yourself and can handle Python then this will do it for you (courtesy of pw201). I'm trying to put something more general together that can handle multiple users in a useful manner. It'll probably take all week for me to ge the time together though, as I'm seeing people pretty much every evening this week.

Comments

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

I totally understand the short post problem. There are loads of times that I've wanted to say something, but didn't want to spend ages writing an essay, and it just seemed easier to use Facebook (although I'm not going as far as Twitter's brevity). It's a shame too, because FB doesn't make it easy to go back and examine really old posts.

You're right, maybe I'll post more on LJ, even if it's only a sentence or two.

[andrewducker]

Yay! If a few people are doing that then it gives more people a reason to stay, and encourages more people to post.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

In my experience my shorter posts always used to get way more comments than my longer posts.

I think people actively prefer short posts on LJ.

Of course this is back in the days when I had more people reading my journal. But still. Totally agree. Post the short stuff people!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think a big part of the attraction of twitter/g+ is the interface/culture supporting short updated. But I don't know WHY. It makes sense to post those short things to LJ -- I'm not bothered by other people. But I always feel "I'll do it later".

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I still think that LJ is the best social network available.

[andrewducker]

It's missing things like a decent mobile client, particularly for reading.

And lots of it is unpolished compared to, say, Facebook/G+.

But it has fantastic security, is incredibly flexible, supports threaded comments, and generally does everything I want.