Macrobius
Megaphoron
This is a reprint of a substack chat (rant) on this topic: Chat | Substack
Currently, I slide my 'timeline' with reposts, often of replies to interesting threads. That leads to very good engagement at a low level, and fruitful inter-personal conversations on the topics I am interested in, and I will continue that format with my alt account.
The weremight account will start to look more like a magazine. That means, longer articles on a variety of subjects, probably not on a single topic, but with attention to all the 'intellectual constituencies'. I'll pilot this idea of course, and if it takes off, I'm happy to do what happens on substack -- have guest blogs on topic from others etc.
To facilitate the 'magazine format' one idea I had was to pin an 'open thread' to the top of my account, with an index of the previous 'issue' and links to past issues, but then lots of free form replies from readers.
This would be the very best place to put links to significant threads on twitter/X. The key here is to attract people with content, but *also* help them find related content easily.
Anyway, index at the top, pinned in a 'Letters from our Readers' thread [I won't really call it that], Vol. once a year and No. -- 3 times a month. Experimental issue will be May 10-19 going up soon, with May 1-9 being a pre-trial squib while I experiment with making articles at all.
What I'm trying to do here: it's great people have have invented 'blogs [remember when that had an apostrophe?], and medium, and substack, but I think Twitter is more direct in terms of reader engagement and can be superior as a medium, leaving aside hostile action. The key idea is inventing the medium, as McLuhan taught us. The Global Village is here already, and we need a medium to respond. Lenin had Iskra and Soros has his Colour Reovlutions. It's time to respond.
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Currently, I slide my 'timeline' with reposts, often of replies to interesting threads. That leads to very good engagement at a low level, and fruitful inter-personal conversations on the topics I am interested in, and I will continue that format with my alt account.
The weremight account will start to look more like a magazine. That means, longer articles on a variety of subjects, probably not on a single topic, but with attention to all the 'intellectual constituencies'. I'll pilot this idea of course, and if it takes off, I'm happy to do what happens on substack -- have guest blogs on topic from others etc.
To facilitate the 'magazine format' one idea I had was to pin an 'open thread' to the top of my account, with an index of the previous 'issue' and links to past issues, but then lots of free form replies from readers.
This would be the very best place to put links to significant threads on twitter/X. The key here is to attract people with content, but *also* help them find related content easily.
Anyway, index at the top, pinned in a 'Letters from our Readers' thread [I won't really call it that], Vol. once a year and No. -- 3 times a month. Experimental issue will be May 10-19 going up soon, with May 1-9 being a pre-trial squib while I experiment with making articles at all.
What I'm trying to do here: it's great people have have invented 'blogs [remember when that had an apostrophe?], and medium, and substack, but I think Twitter is more direct in terms of reader engagement and can be superior as a medium, leaving aside hostile action. The key idea is inventing the medium, as McLuhan taught us. The Global Village is here already, and we need a medium to respond. Lenin had Iskra and Soros has his Colour Reovlutions. It's time to respond.
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