| Tim and Andrew don't like my blathering |
- Its my blog and I can do what I want
- They're all tagged if you want to read some things but exclude the microblogging posts
- They're nowhere near the majority of posts (let alone words written)
- They form a useful reference for me when I need to go back to something later
- I only tend to use them when I only have a small thing to say or can't make a more complete post for technical reasons, such as travel
Tim and Andrew don't like the microblogging I do. My initial response it to point out that this site is my personal blog and I can really do whatever I want with it. However, let's get past that point shall we?
All the blather posts are tagged as such, so they're easy to exclude if you have a RSS aggregator which doesn't suck. In fact even if you don't you can just hit next on your keyboard or scroll past them. Total time lost, a couple of seconds. Additionally, they're not very common -- there are 2,767 posts on this blog (not including this one), and 128 of them are blather posts. That's not really a fair comparison though, because I haven't used blather since the creation of this blog in July 2000. If we count only posts which have occurred since my first blather post (10 May 2007), there are 247 more traditional posts compared with the 128 blather posts. I think that's still a pretty good signal to noise ratio.
Additionally, I have always had some form of linking to articles I thought were interesting, mostly because I often go back to find them again later when I need to. An example is the example of how to do alpha blending with Python's PIL module that I linked to the other day. I was actively working with such problems at the time, and wanted to make a note of the site so that I could find it again. So, the reference aspect of this blog will remain because I find it useful.
Finally, I only tend to microblog non-links when I only have something very small to say, or when its technically hard for me to write a traditional blog post. For example my flights from hell to get to LCA 2007. Would you rather that I spin a comment which can be said in one sentence out into a paragraph just to make it seem like a bigger thought?
To summarise:
I don't intend to comment any further on this issue.
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