Actually this was something that I meant to talk about in the post and forgot. I wasn’t expecting that anyone would want to read the resulting posts at all, and I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t enjoy reading this sort of thing very much myself if someone else was producing it, but some people liked them a surprising amount. I don’t fully understand what’s appealing about them—maybe something about the immediacy of it?
Most of my sample of opinions is coming from twitter, which probably selects for people who can tolerate reading fragmented, disjointed stuff.
In practice it would take me longer than 15 minutes to do even a sloppy editing pass, I’m just not very quick at that sort of thing. And I don’t want to add extra requirements anyway, the whole point for me is to be able to do this quickly.
The idea sounds awesome, though I was less impressed with the results.
From the perspective of a reader, I wish you spent another 15 minutes editing (shortening, a lot) the result.
Actually this was something that I meant to talk about in the post and forgot. I wasn’t expecting that anyone would want to read the resulting posts at all, and I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t enjoy reading this sort of thing very much myself if someone else was producing it, but some people liked them a surprising amount. I don’t fully understand what’s appealing about them—maybe something about the immediacy of it?
Most of my sample of opinions is coming from twitter, which probably selects for people who can tolerate reading fragmented, disjointed stuff.
In practice it would take me longer than 15 minutes to do even a sloppy editing pass, I’m just not very quick at that sort of thing. And I don’t want to add extra requirements anyway, the whole point for me is to be able to do this quickly.