Blogchains

This is extremely useful, from Venkatesh Rao at ribbonfarm:

A traditional blog series is a waterfall-planned longer work that’s something like an ersatz book for lazy vanity publishers. A blogchain on the other hand:

1. is improvised rather than planned

2. is responsive to salient events in the environment

3. evolves at a certain tempo

4. acts like a themed, bite-sized commitment ratchet; gradatim ferociter

5. …but without the oppressive intention-debt of a traditional series

6. is designed for sustainability, more sitcom than movie

7. is suitable for multi-author collaboration like my Worlding Raga

8. is structurally a way to build over time (“construction”)

9. is capable of supporting an inter-process messaging protocol with adjacent blogchains

10. has no necessary or scripted “ending” but more of a crash-only/infinite game character

I’d been looking at forms of serial writing here, but was getting tripped by intention-debt. Yes. Useful thinking.