(2020-02-21) Ellis Broadcasting House

Warren Ellis: Broadcasting House: 1. Broadcasting House: on broadcasting through a “blogge,” an olde way of communicating on the electric paper

I tend to ask myself two questions about this place: is it useful, and is it interesting? A lot of that, of course, comes down to “what is this thing even for?”

I like this to be primarily located here, even though it does pass through to social media. LTD should be the base, not someone else’s service. And, naturally, it does pass through to RSS, which is the radio set for blogs.

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WordPress isn’t always simple. Ghost is probably a little simpler? Blot.im is intelligently basic — if I hadn’t required just a little more functionality, LTD would be on Blot. I feel like Blogger was for people, in large part?

A text renaissance would be nice — and has been announced every few years since forever, even in the dominant days of physical print 2020-02-24-RaoATextRenaissance

“Personal publishing” can mean a multiplicity of things, and should. And it probably starts with owning or at least significantly renting your own transmitter and owning all the master tapes.

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MORNING COMPUTER was erratically-published aphoristic writing nominally produced in my mornings as a writing exercise. It was amusing to me for a long time, but needs shift over time, and it began to not fit emerging requirements. These requirements included being able to signal that I was still alive, to be able to log new music I was interested in, and, bluntly, to be able to do anything I felt like. MORNING COMPUTER had an interesting set of constraints, but I started to feel them.

I wanted to return to the idea of a channel. Something where, if I am so moved, I can broadcast to you, my single reader, from when I get up to when I bail out at night. Sometimes it will be very boring, of course, like posting a picture of replacing the pond liner. But a personal log is allowed to be boring