I’ve posted the microblog functions I am current using on my blog here, in case they are of use or mistakes can be pointed out.
Year: 2017
Found this weird creature washed up on Brassie beach this afternoon
The first pass at improving discovery using a directory pulled from webmentions is live. It is using a custom WP page template which needs a bit of "prettying up" but it works.
This, from Colin Walker is a great idea, produce a list of blogs from webmentions on your site. Directory | Social Thoughts
Inception
liked: snarfed.org
But, more recently, I think the problem is not that people aren't blogging, but finding those that are.
Micro.blog takes me back to my blogging beginnings, excited by a small community of Scots Edu Bloggers, loosely connected outward, it was easy to pull stuff together. Webrings popped up in the tilde club scene recently, but I think your principal of reclaiming the conversation has a better chance.
Reply to: The state of blogging, update: recovery and discovery
Blossom fall. A rainy walk in the park this morning. Summer rain alway brings Astral Weeks to mind.
Lopsided: I’ve had an iPhone in my left hand trouser pocket for years now, my 3rd party screen repair failed yesterday evening and it is now in the Apple Store until I can pick it up tonight, quite a strange sensation.
Loose Learners Episode 3
Took me a while to publish this, Mariana and I talking about twitter mostly musing on Dean Shareski’s Sharing, Bragging, Selling and Self Promoting. The Show notes Mariana put together are brilliant.
Really enjoying hearing about the history of the archive on Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on Recode Decode loveclinks to books and libraries.
It seems to have worked, thanks to a tip from @ciudadanob I’ve rearranged my blog. Status posts are now kept off the home page. Status posts, although they have titles in WordPress do not have in RSS. So the content of the posts flows through to micro.blog.