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.