A week of session-strength blogging in smaller measures

We’ve decided to spend a week blogging like it’s 2008 again: more posts, shorter posts, and more bouncing off other bloggers. This has been inspired by a few things, including: the ‘one link, one paragraph’ posts Stan Hieronymus shares every Monday rediscovering kottke.org which is still going after nearly 30 years discovering the rather similar greg.org But perhaps most of all, it’s been prompted by the realisation of how freeing we find writing our weekly Patreon footnotes posts. There, we provide a little extra commentary on the links in our Saturday morning news, nuggets and longreads post. We’ve been doing it for more than a year now, and it’s made us wonder whether just reacting a bit more, and agonising a little less, might make blogging more fun. Not every post has to be a 1,000+ word full researched epic. Not everything we write needs to tell a story with a beginning, middle and end. There doesn’t always need to be a thesis or argument. So, this week – and we’ll see how it…