For most of the year, I’ve been lightblogging from my feed reader using delicious links. It call it lazy blogging. It’s easy enough, so I could share a lot more things with you that don’t justify a full post in their own right.
A couple of weeks ago I decided to lightblog in a different way. Delicious makes it easy to link to an article, but only one article at a time. Sometimes I want to link two or three articles together. And give credit if the link is coming from someone else. I also tend to overrun their text field quite often, apparently I have a lot to say.
Or not enough time to be short.
Anyway, I rolled five short posts into one blog post, called it rounded corners without even thinking about a proper name, and hit publish. And it was so easy, I immediately went on to write the next rounded corners.
That’s when I decided. Five short posts, minimal editing, once I write the fifth, I publish. Repeat as often as necessary. Or as much interesting stuff as my feed reader can dig up and time allows. Some rounded corners are written in 20 minutes, some take a day or two to fill up. It all depends on number 5.
Which was scientifically selected based on the fact that I only had five items in the first one.
If it sounds too constrained, that’s because it is. I don’t have to think too much, if I can write it up in under five minutes, I add it. I don’t have to edit much, which I do with longer posts to cover more ground, and with delicious to pick the best link.
There’s no incentive to rush it up. I usually post fast enough to get into TechMeme, but here it doesn’t matter how fast I write the post, only when I get to the fifth one. And I don’t know, so I don’t care.
It’s also easier when I can add up or self correct in the next post.
And so my question to you: Yay or nay?
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