Miniblog
I’m trying a bit of an experiment, making a ‘mini blog’ section of my website, using it separately from my normal posts. While I don’t know how much I’ll end up using it, I’ll probably use it for a couple different purposes. The first is just for regular short posts - random personal updates, blogging challenges, reviews of some random product I like, etc. The kind of off the cuff writing that might be a bit long for a microblog (e.g. standard X/Twitter or microblog protocol post), but shorter than my usual posts where I deep dive into my interest of the week.
I also might use it for different post styles and mediums. Posting about some hike using mostly photos, a post about notebooks using scans of physical writing, a random sonnet about something that happened in tech - that sort of stuff. I could also use it for audio/video content, though I’ve got a face and voice for the written word.
Last, I’m hand writing the RSS feed, so I can also do posts outside my blog. It might be a good excuse to toy around with alternative blog/content options. I can add an external link to my miniblog rss just as easily as an internal blog link - being a great excuse to experiment with things like Nostr’s NIP-23, blogging platforms on Activity Pub like WriteFreely, or even mostly photo based posts on things like Pixelfed. It’s kind of the best of both worlds when experimenting with stuff like that: there’s minimal commitment on my end (I handle the distribution via RSS on my domain and can change URLs at any time), anybody interested in the content doesn’t need to follow me on all the platforms I might try out, and yet I still get to try them with some real world use.