Yesterday, I made a Medium account and started importing stories from here onto it. I was listening to the Writer's Well, one of my favourite writing podcasts, and J Thorn from the show was talking about his recent blogging project, where he writes articles on living the author life and distributes them to various platforms - a podcast, YouTube, Medium, Soundcloud etc. He noted that Medium had been the most successful, and that thanks to Publications, which are essentially curated collections of articles that boost visibility, he'd done pretty well there. I was hesitant before, but with his recommendation, I went home straight away and made my account.
Tag: technology
An inadvertant ode to letters
Voice and video chat are hell. There, I said it.
The joy of slow communication
Communication is too fast nowadays. At the click of a button I can send people memes, message an ex, troll for sex on a hookup app, and so on. It's taken for granted that we can instantly message and reply to people, which means many people get annoyed when you don't immediately answer their texts or phone calls. Technology was supposed to make our life simpler, but it just made it more urgent.
Facebook has beaten me into submission
When I left university I deleted Facebook. I made a new one, to keep up with the 20 friends I actually wanted to stay in touch with, but I essentially severed ties with most of my uni acquaintances and the vast majority of people from school. Given how Facebook had inadvertantly forced me out of the closet many times, it was liberating to be anonymous, and even today I'm surprised how far-reaching the effects were.
I hate emails
Like, duh, we all do. But most people seem capable of responding to theirs timely. I suck. I can put off responding to - or even reading - an email for months. I used to do it for years.
Chocophone
The girl in front of me took a bar of Lindt chocolate out of her bag and read the ingredients, and I thought it was a phone.
Cavando el hoyo
Leer blogs es como cavar un hoyo y llenarlo de nuevo.
Me refiero a los hipervínculos. Imagínate: estás leyendo una entrada de blog que menciona otra, y sigues el vínculo, que en si misma tiene dos vínculos, y cada de esos artículos tiene tres, y rápidamente la cosa se despliega...
The Polyglot Lion 