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  "html": "<p>This is a recurring issue for me:  Although I've yet to find anything I actually like overall, I keep thinking I need some tumblelog software that's more inviting for quick quips and quotes.  Sometimes, the affordances of the WordPress posting page make me think I should really write more than a few lines to fill up the space.  So, I don't post anything because I just kind of wander off and never reach the imagined threshold for posting.</p>\n<p>This seems oddly related to when I first let myself start writing in a journal with ink instead of pencil - I couldn't stand not being able to erase things and correct them and make them perfect.  Nowadays, one of the first things I do to an Moleskine is ritually tear out the first page and scribble in pen on the next.  Then, I can write on the rest of the pages.  Hmm.  I wonder how I can scribble on a blog?</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090227\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\"><img src=\"http://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/plaidfluff.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\">fluffy</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090227\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T01:26:07\">2007-05-10T01:26:07</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>How about posting a \"test post, please ignore\" entry?</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090229\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=719ad7cfa24c00bbcaa8030427dd8743&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\">Mike Taylor</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090229\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T02:22:00\">2007-05-10T02:22:00</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Have you seen http://www.tumblr.com/  ?  A very good implementation and it's very customizable.  You can even have it pull feeds from other sources.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090231\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://lantner.net/david\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e0e01b28a3b9fb63b5f653088f0f79b9&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://lantner.net/david\">Dave L</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090231\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T02:31:07\">2007-05-10T02:31:07</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Maybe re-kindle your OPML blog?  I realize it's a separate entity, but it's already there:</p>\n<p>http://blogs.opml.org/decafbad</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090232\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f288a8afe5302a16a366d5e9d34f2fec&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com/\">Joe Grossberg</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090232\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T17:08:07\">2007-05-10T17:08:07</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Allow Google to cache it.</p>\n<p>No erasing after that. :)</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090233\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://brian.cors.org\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=7b3073e125f3ac8f09130950ef5d7790&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://brian.cors.org\">brian cors</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090233\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T17:41:18\">2007-05-10T17:41:18</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>This is exactly what I use Twitter for.   Glancing thoughts, and not-quite-posts.\nIt's why I get pissed when people do \"@whoever - blah blah blah\" posts.   That's what IM and email is for!  :)</p>\n<p>Perhaps start a Twitter account for JUST blogging/microblogging, and then swing it over to WP?</p>\n<p>For Twitter-to-WP integration, check out the Twitter Tools WordPress plug-in, by Alex King.\n[http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress]  </p>\n<p>You can either have each Tweet go to a separate post - or archive the day's tweets in a single one.\nThe once-a-day-archive-to-WP is what I do.  If anything, to backup my postings to Twitter.</p>\n<p>Jott is pretty sweet too.  I have donked around a little bit to do a Jott-to-WP thing, but it doesn't allow for drafts!</p>\n<p>-b</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090234\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://vanhecke.info\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f1b5ad283d61a7c1b1dadb15364593f5&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://vanhecke.info\">Pascal Van Hecke</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090234\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-18T19:16:32\">2007-05-18T19:16:32</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Several Wordpress themes like K2 have incorporated the idea of \"asides\": blurbs and halfbaked thoughts in a different layout and syndicated separately (so you could have a \"serious\" articles feed and a combined serious + asides feed for the groupies).\nSee my del.icio.us links on the subject: http://del.icio.us/pascalvanhecke/asides</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090235\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1487f63f54aa9b54fd725cc9721737d9&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\">Chris Norton</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090235\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-25T19:02:30\">2007-05-25T19:02:30</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Ditto on tumblr. </p>\n<p>I used tumblr to blog my notes from JavaOne for my friends back home, and it worked great:</p>\n<p>http://javaone.tumblr.com/</p>\n<p>Adding photos, videos and audio is very straightforward, too. It's a nice tool.</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "This is a recurring issue for me:  Although I've yet to find anything I actually like overall, I keep thinking I need some tumblelog software that's more inviting for quick quips and quotes.  Sometimes, the affordances of the WordPress posting page make me think I should really write more than a few lines to fill up the space.  So, I don't post anything because I just kind of wander off and never reach the imagined threshold for posting.\r\n\r\nThis seems oddly related to when I first let myself start writing in a journal with ink instead of pencil - I couldn't stand not being able to erase things and correct them and make them perfect.  Nowadays, one of the first things I do to an Moleskine is ritually tear out the first page and scribble in pen on the next.  Then, I can write on the rest of the pages.  Hmm.  I wonder how I can scribble on a blog?\n\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n            \n        <ul class=\"comments\">\n            \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090227\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\"><img src=\"http://disqus.com/api/users/avatars/plaidfluff.jpg\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://beesbuzz.biz/\">fluffy</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090227\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T01:26:07\">2007-05-10T01:26:07</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>How about posting a \"test post, please ignore\" entry?</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090229\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=719ad7cfa24c00bbcaa8030427dd8743&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"\">Mike Taylor</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090229\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T02:22:00\">2007-05-10T02:22:00</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Have you seen http://www.tumblr.com/  ?  A very good implementation and it's very customizable.  You can even have it pull feeds from other sources.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090231\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://lantner.net/david\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=e0e01b28a3b9fb63b5f653088f0f79b9&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://lantner.net/david\">Dave L</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090231\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T02:31:07\">2007-05-10T02:31:07</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Maybe re-kindle your OPML blog?  I realize it's a separate entity, but it's already there:</p>\n\n<p>http://blogs.opml.org/decafbad</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090232\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f288a8afe5302a16a366d5e9d34f2fec&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://www.joegrossberg.com/\">Joe Grossberg</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090232\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T17:08:07\">2007-05-10T17:08:07</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Allow Google to cache it.</p>\n\n<p>No erasing after that. :)</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090233\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://brian.cors.org\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=7b3073e125f3ac8f09130950ef5d7790&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://brian.cors.org\">brian cors</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090233\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-10T17:41:18\">2007-05-10T17:41:18</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>This is exactly what I use Twitter for.   Glancing thoughts, and not-quite-posts.\nIt's why I get pissed when people do \"@whoever - blah blah blah\" posts.   That's what IM and email is for!  :)</p>\n\n<p>Perhaps start a Twitter account for JUST blogging/microblogging, and then swing it over to WP?</p>\n\n<p>For Twitter-to-WP integration, check out the Twitter Tools WordPress plug-in, by Alex King.\n[http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress]  </p>\n\n<p>You can either have each Tweet go to a separate post - or archive the day's tweets in a single one.\nThe once-a-day-archive-to-WP is what I do.  If anything, to backup my postings to Twitter.</p>\n\n<p>Jott is pretty sweet too.  I have donked around a little bit to do a Jott-to-WP thing, but it doesn't allow for drafts!</p>\n\n<p>-b</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090234\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://vanhecke.info\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=f1b5ad283d61a7c1b1dadb15364593f5&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"http://vanhecke.info\">Pascal Van Hecke</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090234\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-18T19:16:32\">2007-05-18T19:16:32</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Several Wordpress themes like K2 have incorporated the idea of \"asides\": blurbs and halfbaked thoughts in a different layout and syndicated separately (so you could have a \"serious\" articles feed and a combined serious + asides feed for the groupies).\nSee my del.icio.us links on the subject: http://del.icio.us/pascalvanhecke/asides</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090235\">\n            <div class=\"meta\">\n                <div class=\"author\">\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=1487f63f54aa9b54fd725cc9721737d9&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \n                       href=\"\">Chris Norton</a>\n                </div>\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090235\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2007-05-25T19:02:30\">2007-05-25T19:02:30</time></a>\n            </div>\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Ditto on tumblr. </p>\n\n<p>I used tumblr to blog my notes from JavaOne for my friends back home, and it worked great:</p>\n\n<p>http://javaone.tumblr.com/</p>\n\n<p>Adding photos, videos and audio is very straightforward, too. It's a nice tool.</p></div>\n            \n        </li>\n    \n        </ul>\n    \n        </div>\n    ",
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