events/2024-05-27-hwc-writing

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Homebrew Website Club 2024-05-27 - Writing Edition

Bonus Online Homebrew Website Club - Writing Edition was an IndieWeb meetup on Zoom held on 2024-05-27.

Participants

Notes

  • posts vs pages
    • Joe Crawford is collating short old posts into pages
    • making lists of posts to combine -- can make it easier for readers to find old posts
  • feels like "cheating" to revise old posts aside from addendums / corrections
    • comparison with digital garden ethos of continually updating pages
    • affordance of online publishing versus print -- is possible to update online
    • Johnny Decimal is a means to organize your files so you can find them. A lot of writing is looking at research or notes collected over time: https://johnnydecimal.com/
    • I want to know what I wrote on this day and will not look at database or git history
  • Scrivener: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview - tool for fiction writing
  • switching between pages and posts
  • ways to present older pieces:
  • how do people feel about the appropriate number of links in a post?
    • linking style: links in endnotes or footnotes versus directly in the text / inline
    • SEO "best practices" versus personal linking style / preferences
    • links as desserts on top of a meal versus "pre-requisites" for understanding
  • style guide for bloggers? do bloggers document their styles? do bloggers follow 'official' style guides?

"A style guide can be a great resource for establishing and supporting style guidelines. A resource like a style guide is particularly useful in a distributed content production environment, where multiple authors across the organization are contributing content to the site."

    • specifically considering embeds
    • Jamie Tanna: Blogumentation: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2017/06/25/blogumentation/
    • referring to sites by the author's name versus their website's name
    • including a description of how to link to you on your website -- "preferences"
      • interacts with author's goals for the site, who they are writing for
  • changing opinions about what we want published on our sites
    • LLMs don't have the right of removal, unlike search enginges
    • possible to opt out of archive.org
    • Search Engine Hostility https://dead.garden/blog/search-engine-hostility.html not all of us want to be in search engines and find readers via search engines
    • how we feel about older content -- cringe at seeing past opinions we've changed
      • digital doesn't show its age unless it renders poorly
      • including automatic notes to call out older content
    • ex: name change of "dark patterns" --> "deceptive patterns"
    • shitposting -- ephemeral value
    • Joe Crawford knows that he can't shitpost out of some instinct that the web will remember and I can't disclaim responsibility for it
  • how do we decide what's good enough quality to go on our blogs / websites?
    • having the vague impression of good enough
    • is it written for other people or for me
    • publish everything finished
    • publish what was written for me (it is cool if you like it or if you don't) - and I even wrote a comic about the Zappa quote I was thinking of https://artlung.com/blog/2020/02/02/zappa-comic/
    • whatever the feeling of compulsion to share is there
    • what I want to refer back to
    • depends on the length - longer have higher standard
    • purpose - like the short pieces, that can serve to continue the discussion, can be less polished
    • depends on the audience - like don't want to piss off people
    • the web is forgiving of minor mistakes (e.g. typos) -- people are largely reading for content
  • who are we writing for? at what point in the writing process do we consider audience?
    • writing for ourselves by default
    • e.g. considering an international audience -- avoid local colloquialisms - down even to if I share a measurement - "I walked 3 miles" there are times where I've included the measurement in kilometers too.
    • don't assume the reader knows everything you do -- have an article be something that makes sense on its own
    • Joe Crawford: sometimes a post that's a bit like vaguebooking feels like the right thing to write when what Iwant to communicate is more intense than I can do justice too. From dictionary.com: "vaguebooking is the practice of making a post on social media, primarily Facebook, that is intentionally vague but highly personal and emotional"
    • considering an audience when choosing between topics -- might be more likely to write about what we think others will also be interested in
    • considering the balance of posts -- don't want to write about the same topic too much
  • short posts and notes
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