77 // Writing on the Internet With Francesco Di Lorenzo
Metadata
- Author: Metamuse
- Full Title: 77 // Writing on the Internet With Francesco Di Lorenzo
- URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/6484cd1f-50f7-4ece-a47a-8b0d44329f24
Highlights
Twitter: A Novel Way of Writing Summary: Twitter is a publishing platform. The little text area they give you for typing your text just increasingly to me does it feel quite up to the job of at least the way that some folks use Twitter. We’ve found that many users, many people love to write that way also and they’re not writing for Twitter. So I think by, in a way, by chance, we stumbled on a really interesting idea, a novel way of writing. That’s helpful even when you are not targeting Twitter. Transcript: Speaker 1 I’m investing in it like I do with any piece of writing, and it feels like a very weird thing to be just doing this and this little pop up text area box. And so they’re clearly not a dedicated writing tool. And so it just feels a very natural thing to say, let’s make a, yeah, I don’t know, if you want to think of it as a word processor, that’s not quite right, but there are a lot of dedicated text tools that exist for others. Types of writing we want to do in our lives, and that can be a first class thing, managing that over time and making the writing experience good and having multiple drafts, collaborating with other people, and really something like Twitter is a publishing platform. The little text area they give you for typing your text just increasingly to me does it feel quite up to the job of at least the way that some folks use Twitter. Speaker 2 Yeah, also because in a way it’s a completely different form of writing, this idea of atomic atomic writing, writing these short snippets that somehow are connected together, but they are their own thing. We’ve found that many users, many people love to write that way also and they’re not writing for Twitter. So I think by, in a way, by chance, we stumbled on a really interesting idea, a novel way of writing. That’s helpful even when you are not targeting Twitter. (Time 0:06:46)
The Role of Blogs and Newsletters in Social Media Summary: I’m still very attached to blogging makes me really nostalgic when it’s a really good blog. Many people are in a way using social media to attract people to platform they own. I think our friend and a multiple guest on the podcast, Jeffrey Lit, is being very good at this. Transcript: Speaker 2 Yeah, you can see the whole evolution of writing on the internet, things getting easier and easier with the next meeting one after the other, starting from blogging. In a way, I’m still very attached to blogging makes me really nostalgic when it’s a really good blog. I try to keep one myself. But yeah, I think blogging is still going today. And we see many of our users keeping personal blogs and repartusing the same content also on Twitter and medium. In a way, a blog is this platform you’ll know that nobody can take away from you. It’s very common today to see creators still owning a blog with an attached newsletter as a way to own their audience. Many people are in a way using social media to attract people to platform they own. And that’s I think the role blogs and newsletters play today. Speaker 1 That makes sense. I think our friend and a multiple guest on the podcast, Jeffrey Lit, is being very good at this. (Time 0:10:34)