Congratulations to Manton on the launch of micro.one! I have been a happy customer of micro.blog since launch and I love this new simplified version that makes blogging even more accessible at a super low $10 a year! Living inside the little box that a social media platforms give …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: micro.one making blogging more accessible!24 years ago today Dave Winer introduced Payloads for RSS — which became the structure of the entire podcasting world. If you listen to a podcast, you are using RSS with enclosures. I love the backstory that he disagreed with the premise but Adam Curry “persisted” and convinced …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Payloads for RSS, aka Podcasts!I’ve gone “all in” on Micro.blog’s photo collection feature. I’ve created 64 collections so far which if I’m reading id numbers right means 17% of all collections on micro.blog are ones I made. 🤓 I needed some tooling in order to migrate to collections and use them the way that I …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Micro.blog Collections ShortcutsI recently discovered Open RSS via an article on Lifehacker highlighting how the service can provide feeds for some services that don’t do it themselves. I clicked through and was delighted to read more about Open RSS. Open RSS is a non-profit advocating for the use of RSS. I …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Support the Web via Open RSSUpdate: I created POAP2RSS to fill this gap! I’m a big fan of POAP, and I’m a big fan of RSS. Sadly, these two things don’t know about each other, yet! This blog post is my take on a great start for RSS and POAP. Maybe there is a chance that the amazing folks at Open RSS could …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: POAP + RSS = Awesome?All five of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs are now created!
Next step is to introduce each of these blogs to Weekly Thing readers over a few issues. Love that “new blog” smell! 😂
I’m “all in” on micro.blog collections. I have 61 collections with 936 images. My Collection Creator Shortcut was key to that. Nearly all Gallery posts have been updated. I migrated Adaptive Photo Layout posts to Collections.
Top feature ask: rename collections and modify order or images.
With many thanks to Amit Gawande’s fun Post Stats Plugin and a recent discussion to add some more information to it — I’m sharing some perspective on my blogging from 2024. In 2024 I published 701 posts with 51,905 words. Of those, 529 had photos and 157 of them had titles. June …
Keep reading · 1 minute: 2024 in BloggingCool to see the new Mimi Uploader out with support for Micro.blog collections! This along with my Collection Creator Shortcut gives me a lot of options.
I’m still wondering how to name collections. It seems if you have 100 or more collections it is going to get unruly, similar to Pages. 🤔
I’m excited to welcome Jesse Lang @jesselang to Micro.blog! Along with Phil Rodemann @See3p0, Marcos D Alves @mdalves, and David O’Hara @davoh that is four of the Christmas Blogs. 🎄🎁🎁🎁🎁
The fifth winner changed their mind so I extended the offer to another. 🤞
