{"id":573,"date":"2007-09-04T02:33:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:25:37","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T06:25:37","slug":"purging-drafts-into-pico-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/purging-drafts-into-pico-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Purging Drafts Into Pico Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I started using Twitter, Tumblr, and Stikkit, it seems I haven&#8217;t been able to finish a blog post.  Instead, I&#8217;m just Twittering, collecting, reading, posting: generally zipping through the electronic universe leaving a varied trail of my activities and thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>This speedy trip has its ups and downs. On the one hand, I know that my various bits will find their way to people through these networks.  I&#8217;m also capturing most of my output through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/activity\/data\/stream\/\">my data stream\/lifestream<\/a>. On the other hand, my attention is so split by these activities that I can&#8217;t find the time to slow down, reflect, analyze, and write a post.<\/p>\n<p>Like many of my fellow weblings, I&#8217;ve got a drafts folder filled to the brim. What happens to these thoughts as time moves on?  Hopefully they resurface in our heads and evolve into full thoughts.  If they don&#8217;t, we forget and they sit in our drafts queue like an incomplete thought.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/emilychang\/statuses\/217304752\">I twittered<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-579\" title=\"twitter-epost\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/twitter-epost.png\" alt=\"twitter-epost\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/twitter-epost.png 500w, https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/twitter-epost-255x175.png 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And got <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/digitalvillages\/statuses\/217336232\">this response<\/a> from Twitter user, digitalvillages:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-580\" title=\"twitter-digitalvillages\" src=\"http:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/twitter-digitalvillages.png\" alt=\"twitter-digitalvillages\" width=\"500\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/twitter-digitalvillages.png 500w, https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/twitter-digitalvillages-255x111.png 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So today, in honor of my blog&#8217;s second anniversary, I tried to do just that. It was harder than I thought.  As a stream of consciousness post, all the disparate pieces seemed more like notes from some imaginary conference.  So instead, I decided to start a category for &#8220;Pico post&#8221;, as a kind of hybrid between Twitter and micro-blogging, answering the question &#8220;what am I thinking?&#8221;   I&#8217;ve posted various drafts according to their original date.  Perhaps this is blog sacrilege, but I&#8217;m not really worrying about blog rank or traffic. I just want an semi-accurate reflection of my own thoughts here in this digital archive. These are bits and thoughts that haven&#8217;t made their way to a full blog post. Maybe they never will, but at least I&#8217;ll remember what I was thinking, and when.<\/p>\n<p>Below in reverse chronological order are some of my drafts turned into pico posts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thoughtful Reduction and the Miniaturization of Expression\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/thoughtful-reduction-and-the-miniaturization-of-expression\/\">Thoughtful Reduction and the Miniaturization of Expression<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"My OS Doesn't Work Like My Mind\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/my-os-doesnt-work-like-my-mind\/\">My OS Doesn&#8217;t Work Like My Mind<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Self-Sousveillance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/self-sousveillance\/\">Self-Sousveillance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Capturing the Flow of Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/capturing-the-flow-of-design\/\">Capturing the Flow of Design<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fluid UI: Multi-touch screen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/fluid-ui-multi-touch-screen\/\">Fluid UI: Multi-touch screen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"I Like Being in Other People's Stats\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/i-like-being-in-other-peoples-stats\/\">I Like Being in Other People&#8217;s Stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Old Wisdom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/old-wisdom\/\">Old Wisdom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why I Use Social Software\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/why-i-use-social-software\/\">Why I Use Social Software<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tell it All\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/tell-it-all\/\">Tell it All<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fast vs. Slow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/fast-vs-slow\/\">Fast vs. Slow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Internal Elegance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/internal-elegance\/\">Internal Elegance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Shift\" href=\"http:\/\/www.emilychang.com\/go\/weblog\/comments\/the-shift\/\">The Shift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I started using Twitter, Tumblr, and Stikkit, it seems I haven&#8217;t been able to finish a blog post. Instead, I&#8217;m just Twittering, collecting, reading, posting: generally zipping through the electronic universe leaving a varied trail of my activities and thoughts. This speedy trip has its ups and downs. On the one hand, I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,117,16,135],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-blogging","tag-picopost","tag-projects","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilychang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}