The posts people write in blogs can be classified in two groups:
- those that are going to be (or should be) maintained, expressing the real time information (like books one reads or read, todo lists, lecture notes, etc),
- those that express the momentary thoughts of a writer on an event or activity.
While first ones can be managed using standart blog engines (livejournal, blogger, etc) via «Edit post» option, that’s hardly efficient. What I found to be useful is the following — using gist (http://gist.github.org) as a great blogging engine. Indeed, you have a handy display of Emacs Org-Mode files (the only thing I use Emacs for, to be honest, thanks to @michishigekaito for luring me to use it) and it tracks changes you do to your posts. It also has a neat timeline where all of your gists are shown in filtered by creation time. To see the activity of updating or forking gists one must refer to the main github timeline though. In my case, gist timeline can be found at https://gist.github.com/manpages (doesn’t display any gists atm, for no obvious reason) and the main timeline of my activity at github is at https://github.com/manpages.
So, anyway, here are examples of my gist-blog-posts —
- https://gist.github.com/2515871 (Org-Mode, displayed nicely)
- https://gist.github.com/2280926 (.txt, showing revision history capabilities)
Example of gist that was forked by another person —
Wow, that guy pushed it further than I thought he will! Let’s tell him about it using gist comments —
You can even blog anonymously —
Finally, the livejournal version of that post is here —
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