DON’T SPIKE ME, BRO! Welcome to the new, Twitterized kausfiles.com. Tweets and blog items in the same stream. Why do this? 1) I spend a lot of time and energy on Twitter. 2) Twitter was and is killing blogging. What used to be the fun short blog items are now tweets, leaving only the duller, long items for blogs — a drift toward dreariness accelerated by the need to attract links by writing Important Posts, and by Google’s apparent decision to favor longer posts in its search results (on the highly questionable theory that short posts are inherently less informative). I always thought readers preferred shorter items. The hell with Google.
This new format should, in theory, put the fun items back on the blog. It will also allow 140 character tweets to be expanded into longer items. Best of all, from my point of view, none of these items will have to have a big, joke-killing headline — my main beef with the WordPress-based blogs I’ve been writing ever since the tragic Slate redesign of 2008. The result should look more like kausfiles’ blog originally looked, back in the day.
We’ll see. Experimentation is ongoing. I just learned, for example, that if I try to modify a tweet on this site it causes a break in the space-Twitter continuum that destroys everything on kausfiles. So I won’t do that! Tweets will appear here unchanged — though some will be deleted, sometimes to be later expanded and reposted as items.
Please let me know in the comments of any problems or suggestions. My thanks to John Keegan of PressHarbor for putting this all together.
Why the new http://t.co/cfWpLLd08l is Twittercentric http://t.co/t4v98mzHAx
Bookmarked! –> RT @kausmickey Why the new http://t.co/beeocWpSn6 is Twittercentric http://t.co/ju9xngDa1p
…appreciating kausfiles now more iphone friendly.
Mickey, will you restart that funny thing with the querulous editor’s notes? Get that going again!
Now checking your site daily, and not reading the Daily Caller until they apologize.
I haven’t used the blog site (wherever it is) directly in several years. I just follow Mickey on Twitter and use the links there to get to the longer pieces. As a side benefit, no disruption in routine when the blog moves to a different publisher.
I like the format and the content. Really hoping you flourish, we need insightful comments into the folly of both sides, which the two camps in the rest of the media seem to have abdicated.
What about kausfiles.com, without the www ? Does Daily Caller own that forever now, or just till a contract expiration? It took me awhile to find http://www.kausfiles.com .
Speaking of site design, you need a favicon. I suggest the red ‘k’ followed by the black ‘f’ in kausfiles, on a white background.
@michaelrjones37 here’s another reason for integrating twitter: http://t.co/8lTM9kP4dm
A pioneering political blogger is trying a new, Twitterized format. The way forward? http://t.co/VIK0J3MR0u @kausmickey via @annalthouse