Comments on: Purging Drafts Into Pico Posts http://emilychang.com/2007/09/purging-drafts-into-pico-posts/ At the intersection of design, tech, creativity and culture. Part blog, part life log. Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:10:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cold Bacon http://emilychang.com/2007/09/purging-drafts-into-pico-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Cold Bacon Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:36:24 +0000 http://emilychang.com/blog/?p=573#comment-157 <p>cool. well i’m going to assume blogger software doesn’t allow pico posting. of course, one could just redirect links within posts to one’s own website, but then again, it wouldn’t have the ability of “commenting” built-in if it wasn’t running the kind of software like blogger or whatever you are using. ordinary websites (like mine) don’t have such software in them. </p> <p> but still, i do like the idea of nesting posting as a way to group similar content threads together in a multilayered format. as beautiful and wonderful as blogging format is, i do find it a little limiting when it comes to old posts being simply lost in the “history/archive” so potential discussions end up not happening whereas they otherwise might have if they were nested as you’ve done here. </p> <p> finally, on the issue of whether pico posting obviates the need for good writing and thought, that is entirely not logical to me. just because you’ve hidden posts within posts doesn’t mean you don’t have to be coherent? surely? the only issue is that you preface the picopost by saying “the following post is kind of a rough draft.” it has nothing to do with the format of the post. only how you present it to your audience. Nabokov talks about this. </p> <p> Always <br /> CB </p> cool. well i’m going to assume blogger software doesn’t allow pico posting. of course, one could just redirect links within posts to one’s own website, but then again, it wouldn’t have the ability of “commenting” built-in if it wasn’t running the kind of software like blogger or whatever you are using. ordinary websites (like mine) don’t have such software in them.

but still, i do like the idea of nesting posting as a way to group similar content threads together in a multilayered format. as beautiful and wonderful as blogging format is, i do find it a little limiting when it comes to old posts being simply lost in the “history/archive” so potential discussions end up not happening whereas they otherwise might have if they were nested as you’ve done here.

finally, on the issue of whether pico posting obviates the need for good writing and thought, that is entirely not logical to me. just because you’ve hidden posts within posts doesn’t mean you don’t have to be coherent? surely? the only issue is that you preface the picopost by saying “the following post is kind of a rough draft.” it has nothing to do with the format of the post. only how you present it to your audience. Nabokov talks about this.

Always

CB

]]> By: Emily Chang http://emilychang.com/2007/09/purging-drafts-into-pico-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Emily Chang Fri, 07 Sep 2007 08:54:10 +0000 http://emilychang.com/blog/?p=573#comment-156 <p>Hi. I don’t use blogger but in my system, I just finished writing them and changed the status “draft” to “open/publish” and added them to my pico post category. </p> Hi. I don’t use blogger but in my system, I just finished writing them and changed the status “draft” to “open/publish” and added them to my pico post category.

]]> By: Cold Bacon http://emilychang.com/2007/09/purging-drafts-into-pico-posts/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Cold Bacon Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:41:40 +0000 http://emilychang.com/blog/?p=573#comment-155 <p>i really like this pico post idea. how did you do it? i use blogger and i didn’t know you could have drafts be able to be linked to and commented on? i realize this is probably such a basic question that explaining this to me would probably be like having to explain to someone how to turn a doorknob. but still i ask. </p> i really like this pico post idea. how did you do it? i use blogger and i didn’t know you could have drafts be able to be linked to and commented on? i realize this is probably such a basic question that explaining this to me would probably be like having to explain to someone how to turn a doorknob. but still i ask.

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