So, lately I haven't been posting much, but hey, that's not an exception, it's the rule of this blog: better be quiet than saying crap. This may be understood by a lot of people has an exception, an odd behavior, since the most of blogs around tries too hard seem active by posting a lot to keep a steady readers base. The problem begins when those bloggers start posting stuff that is just either a copy of other major sites, news, or simply, in the most fairest of the words, crap. And this is something that really bothers me.
So, what does this have to do with Twitter? Simple, did you discover some great thing that will do for the post of the day in your blog but is unimportant enough for being there? Go register on twitter, and free your blog of chewing gum. Do the mental work of thinking in something else if you actually want to do a post, meanwhile twitter will filter for you all the minor things that otherwise you would be tempted to post about (I agree with Pedro Cavaco on this).
This may eventually put you post's-per-day rate at risk, but isn't content above regularity in a quality scale? Or do you post about everything that happens in your life, which you know it's irrelevant to the readers out there, but still do it because you enjoy to?
That's related to a question that was brought to me a few days ago, wether a blog aggregator for a programming/technology community should filter content by technology or just allow everything that comes from the user. And I though about that for a while and decided that without very well defined blogs, in the way that the author will self-restrict the kind of contents that he talks about or the way in which he talks about them, a blog aggregator like that would turn out to be a salad in which the technology would appear just as the temper, and not the lettuce. And the more a blog aggregator makes the reader filter information the less will be its quality.
That's related to a question that was brought to me a few days ago, wether a blog aggregator for a programming/technology community should filter content by technology or just allow everything that comes from the user. And I though about that for a while and decided that without very well defined blogs, in the way that the author will self-restrict the kind of contents that he talks about or the way in which he talks about them, a blog aggregator like that would turn out to be a salad in which the technology would appear just as the temper, and not the lettuce. And the more a blog aggregator makes the reader filter information the less will be its quality.