Tonight’s post is going to be a bit of housecleaning. A few nuts and bolts, some additional context on a couple of notions, and what I’m thinking for its future. Well, barring the unpredictable, of course. So let’s get to the ’splainin’.
I’ve been trying to complete one of these every weeknight. As you probably know by now, the impetus was to keep me from Tweeting, but still give me an outlet — albeit different — to put ideas out in the world. Since I started at the beginning of November, this is my 62nd edition of Not Tweets, by my count. While I still miss the immediacy of Tweeting, Twitter has changed so much, as has the usage of the audience I was Tweeting for, posting my ideas there just isn’t the same. So, here we are.
Now, for those keeping very close track, you may have noticed a common theme in the posts’ titles. Each and every one of them is a repurposed Soundgarden song title, which does a couple of things for me:
1) Saves me from having to think up a bold headline that was SEO-worthy. 2) Puts a finite number on how many of these posts I’ve tasked myself with.
By my count (with this Wikipedia page as my source), Soundgarden released 120 songs during their existence (1984 – 2017). But since I’m not using the tiles of covers they released (nine of them), that adds up to, hopefully, 111 posts here, eventually. Which means we’re more than halfway through.
[ Inhales deeply. ]
Now, for one last thing: Since the Google layoffs, I’ve been much more active on LinkedIn. As I texted a friend the other day, LinkedIn is the GenX TikTok. And since I’ve been there so much, I’ve been posting links to the last few of these posts there, too. Now, even though I know that their recommendation algorithm is over-indexing on posts which include #GoogleLayoffs, these links are getting much more traction than when I cross-publish on my blog, Medium, and on Post. I know not every one of these is appropriate for inclusion on LinkedIn, but if I can find a justification for including some of them there, the readership has been surprisingly large. Thanks to any and all of you who are reading this because of a link from LinkedIn.
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25 January 2023
Net working.
Tonight’s post is going to be a bit of housecleaning. A few nuts and bolts, some additional context on a couple of notions, and what I’m thinking for its future. Well, barring the unpredictable, of course. So let’s get to the ’splainin’.
I’ve been trying to complete one of these every weeknight. As you probably know by now, the impetus was to keep me from Tweeting, but still give me an outlet — albeit different — to put ideas out in the world. Since I started at the beginning of November, this is my 62nd edition of Not Tweets, by my count. While I still miss the immediacy of Tweeting, Twitter has changed so much, as has the usage of the audience I was Tweeting for, posting my ideas there just isn’t the same. So, here we are.
Now, for those keeping very close track, you may have noticed a common theme in the posts’ titles. Each and every one of them is a repurposed Soundgarden song title, which does a couple of things for me:
1) Saves me from having to think up a bold headline that was SEO-worthy.
2) Puts a finite number on how many of these posts I’ve tasked myself with.
By my count (with this Wikipedia page as my source), Soundgarden released 120 songs during their existence (1984 – 2017). But since I’m not using the tiles of covers they released (nine of them), that adds up to, hopefully, 111 posts here, eventually. Which means we’re more than halfway through.
[ Inhales deeply. ]
Now, for one last thing: Since the Google layoffs, I’ve been much more active on LinkedIn. As I texted a friend the other day, LinkedIn is the GenX TikTok. And since I’ve been there so much, I’ve been posting links to the last few of these posts there, too. Now, even though I know that their recommendation algorithm is over-indexing on posts which include #GoogleLayoffs, these links are getting much more traction than when I cross-publish on my blog, Medium, and on Post. I know not every one of these is appropriate for inclusion on LinkedIn, but if I can find a justification for including some of them there, the readership has been surprisingly large. Thanks to any and all of you who are reading this because of a link from LinkedIn.
See you tomorrow?