Can you imagine that?
I know there is a movement nowadays to short form content, video, livestream, and generally small bites content, very easy to chew, dumbed down, which is a way to not say... dumbing down consumers.
There is an opposite movement too, to some extent. Otherwise, why would X now support longer posts, right? 240 characters are not enough, apparently, for enough people.
We have on Hive a few, maybe a couple of people who haven't missed a beat with their daily posts (whether blogs or videos) for a long time. They deserve the credit! It's not easy.
But 25 years? Boy, that's half a life for many around here. Or their entire life for the younger ones.
And yet, there is someone famous in the world who has been blogging daily (sometimes twice a day), for the past 25 years, a milestone he passed a couple of days ago.
More exactly, he passed the milestone of 10,000 posts. He doesn't even know the exact number because it is difficult for him to keep a good tracking for the early ones.
Note that he didn't post 10 times a day to get to that number. Mostly once a day, very rarely twice a day.
I am subscribed to him for many years, and there was a time when I read his post every day. For a while near present days I haven't checked out that particular email I subscribed with, and forgot about the daily bites of wisdom or clarity he shared. Recently, I added that email to the email reader on my phone, and I get them again and started to read them, usually when I go out and I wait for something and have a few minutes of time.
Thinking about the notion of shitposting we have on Hive, I wanted to say he never adds images to his posts (at least I haven't remarked that in all this time, but maybe I don't remember well), although he is known for a book about branding.
I haven't counted the words on his posts, but they are usually relatively short, with some long and some very short. By very short I mean a few sentences. I even think I remember at least one or two posts that only had the title and a few words in it.
Of course, he is a well-known author, and he has something of substance to communicate, even when he does it briefly.
He is the inventor of permissioned marketing, author of exceptional books and entrepreneur. You may have heard of him: Seth Godin.
I haven't added an image to this post on purpose.
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I think the longer post are for people who can pay 8$ a month. Of course it's a microblogging platform, but paying to be able to write longer posts don't really make Twitter a traditional blogging platform.
In reality, the length of a post isn't much of a value, but on Hive, we tend to follow people or consume content that means value for us. So value is probably not universal, but 25 years is the definition of longevity.
You might be right about that! 😃
Absolutely! They just wanted an additional market share and another hook for their paid membership.
Yes, and I, as a content consumer follow both people who write short and long posts. And videos, of course.
Absolutely! Of course, he has been successful in various ways, so he doesn't need a blogging income to live from, for example. If someone has that constraint, they will start to compromise one way or another, and eventually may give up if that doesn't provide for them as other ventures.
Well yes. I don't know if this particular person has been criticized for their type of content maybe by the people who consume. We know consumers aren't always satisfied and sometimes wants something else. I'm sure they have, but for them to have stuck to their guns for such a long time, it should prove it wasn't for the money
Seth certainly doesn't blog daily for money. He uses that for awareness and to be on people's minds every day.
That’s a long time! Whooosh!!!
Even if the word count is short, it takes so much discipline to be that consistent.
Considering he has also written at least a dozen popular books (some translated in multiple languages), and built, ran and sold a few interesting businesses, and his usually weekly podcast (with breaks), keeping a daily blog for 25 years is very impressive.
Totally impressive.
25years of blogging? Now thats some super great feat there and simply a show of consistency.
I’ve not heard of him, well, I have now
Gat to search him out man
You should. Great pieces of daily content, if we don't consider his books or show/podcast.
Yea
I already stay reading about him..Got some great content about him
At this point in time, that's my entire life lol. I sometimes struggle with how many words a post ought to have, I've read that the standard is 500 words on Hive. Some days, what I want to write about can be covered in lesser than 500 words, but I improvise through finding ways to expand on certain key points to hit that mark. I'm not sure if I'll keep this benchmark in the future. For now, it's mostly perceived as a gateway for building more writing structure.
You're lucky to be so young!
I know some curators set that as a minimum. I don't bother with that mark. If what I have to say needs 300 words I'll say it in 300 words. If it needs 1800 words, I'll say it in 1800 words. Probably I miss out on some curation when I am below 500 words, but that's for curators to decide if they want to apply a rigid pattern to their curation or not.
Thank you! I'd like to think so too but sometimes I feel old without even any sense of comparison on the table.
I didn't see it that way previously with regards to curators deciding to apply this mark or not. I mostly thought it was the author's decision. Thanks for the insight :)
Basically, some curators who curate rather randomly, apply certain filters. The content length is one of them, have one (sometimes multiple) images is another, the reputation of the author or how long they've been on the platform could be another. Using or not using certain tags or publishing/not publishing in certain communities, or through certain front ends are another set of filters they might use...
This is just the best. Never force yourself to say things longer than it can be, sometimes you lose that touch.
I agree with this 100%.
Seth Godin is awesome. I listen to his podcasts and interviews because he's super insightful when it comes to building a brand.
He certainly is! I need to start listening to his podcast again. There are only 24 hours in a day, but his is one that is worth it.
Never heard of him... That's crazy, that means posting even when sick, when I'm sick I can't even get out of bed
He most likely writes in bulk (more of them at once) and schedules a bunch of them these days. However, some are on very actual themes, more like reacting to events. Those you don't often schedule... But in the early days, there was no way to schedule posts/emails. He actually published every day for some years.
I don't think I have heard about him, but that consistency pays off. I can easily see people skipping a few days here and there, but he didn't do so.
Maybe he skipped some days... For a while we have scheduling for blogging and emailing. He could have simply written all of them in a day for an entire week, in some cases. But that's still consistency. Others don't do that either.
I thought you were going to say Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS. Winer's been posting multiple times daily to his blog since 1994.
I started blogging in 1996, but I wasn't consistent about it until 2006, so I'm a bit behind both of them.
I didn't know of his blog. Thanks. I subscribed.
You have been blogging for a long time... I started much later, although not sure exactly when, because I had a couple of attempts before I launched and built my blog I had when I joined the legacy chain. In the meantime, I gave up on that, only blogging here.
I've heard of Seth, but don't follow his stuff. The comedian Richard Herring has done a daily blog since 2002. I don't read that either, but I am a fan. I listen to some of his podcasts and he has done a lot of those too. There is just not enough time to consume everything I would want to.
Looks like there are other long time daily bloggers out there... I agree, not enough time in a day to follow everything.