This is a question I find myself coming back to often. As longer form sharing starts to move to central platforms like Google+, should we be migrating our activities to where our friends’ eyeballs are? I dig what Google has done with plus. I think they’re opening the door for longer form content sharing in a way that Facebook or other social networks haven’t. From an interaction standpoint, posting to Google+ generates far more discussion, feedback and attention in real time (that’s been my experience so far). The flip side is that in the long term, you don’t really own your longer posts and after only a short time, they disappear into the stream, never to be found again. I suppose it comes down to personal preference and whether you’d rather have more real-time conversations than build a library of articles that you own and control.
To those of you who have subscribed to this blog, how would you rather consume long form (for this blog)? Thoughts or opinions either way?
I’ll take long-form via the blog. It ensures that, regardless of platforms coming or going, I’ll always know where to find this type of content.
Syndicate across the channels (RSS, Twitter, Google+, etc) but I like the idea of having a single repository (both for the publisher as well as the community).
Fair. Im pretty firmly in this camp too. You can always syndicate, right?
I like blogs for a few reasons: the design is personal and intimate knowledge of the author, the ownership of the content itself is retained while the syndication changes over time, and you own your real estate which is not insignificant in these days of seo… And all these reasons can be applied to why I don’t use commenting widgets either.
Roger that. Now maybe you could give me some sage advice on how to find the time to actually write? ;-)
Hah. The most I have time for is writing this comment. :)