It took me a while to locate substack. Two reasons, a/ I forgot what it was called for a while, and b/ there is another service called as Scrollstack that is out there. Its new and almost like substack but not substack. It is very different but somehow I was confused for a while. I would have continued using it if I liked its publishing tools. It seemed a bit fake and quite inspired by Medium. It’s in between and medium and substack in a sense. Couldn’t do it. Now I am moving. But I have to figure the move. The deal is I am moving from a blog to a newsletter. I have tried a lot of blogs. It's always something to do with the formatting that has made me stay or move. I tried blogger, tested WordPress, posted from Tumblrs, invested quite a bit of time on Svbtle. Did alright there. I think. Oddly I need to move out from Svbtle. I wanted to move out for a while and then I didn't want to but now I no longer have access to machimach[dot]com, in process of losing it, and a blog for it seems now a bit unnecessary. The blog was an archive, that I post things I wanted to get back to. For a newsletter people have discipline. Can I disrupt the newsletter format and use it as a blog? Subscriptions happen there too but I was never interested in that format. Here people are or have the option to do that. For now, I am hopeful an audience may take a bit of time to build therefore will not be having a structure or rhythm to content production. Maybe a monthly plan to audit and move the blog out distribute content that was there between an almost newsletter here and a bit more polished texts on medium.
*published on Svbtle starting day, 29th January 2014
How does this work?
Where is all the content that has been around?/ In other words, how can the text be organised as per services?
How are all my thoughts moving across the internet?
This new thing Svbtle should it be of any use in the everyday?
Markdown is fun but it’s new to look at. basic commands that need to be studied are as follows:
IMAGE _ To add an image, drag it into the editor window,
BOLD _ **Bolded text here**,
ITALIC _ *Italic text here*,
LINK _ [Linked text here](http://link_url.com/?test) and
BLOCKQUOTE > Quoted text.
Moving from right, save is a good thing!
Publish, at hold for the moment.
Preview is ok.
Post date seems fine.
Custom URL has got its troubles a.k.a - permalink is not formatted properly.
The dashboard is a dashboard. Work of John Pawson seems to find relevance once again. Do you really need a custom domain? Well, maybe.
So between Tumblr, Medium, Twitter and now Subtle. We can consider posting all images to they look their best i.e Tumblr. Twitter between images and thoughts from the head. Medium for collected content. And only text here.
If there was some word count thingy in draft mode then there could be a daily writing goal but now its coordinated instinct.
The title would definitely like to change. But for a record of actions, it remains.
Email posts could be helpful. Ramble is for this space. Long-form that is. Collective or descriptive idea sets. The text stands not going anywhere. Agendas. Goals. Policies. Designs. Other things.
What more do I have to add? Quotes? Do I store quotes here? Twitter should a place for that.
Email. Ideas mails. Sent but no replies. Festive greetings? should there be a promotion? do i want folks to read this? Madonna and Miley keep showing their tongues. Japanese chick gets 5g’s for eating in front of her webcam.
500 words or 1000 words. There has to be some daily limit. A sum total of gibberish output in twenty-four hours. Of course with the necessary breaks.
The green rectangle blinks again. I now decide between Papercut Chronicles II and the Vampire Weekend album to listen to.
Fast forward to today in the very late of December 2020 I am on 2018 Rampage. Why it seems appealing, I put off seeing it for a while. Seven years back doesn’t seem like a long time back. ‘#architecture’ was Architecture and ‘spatial strategies’ wasn’t on the horizon. It was more towards urbanism then. Somewhere it becomes urban design and breaks back into urban planning. This is how far the memory holds on how time has progressed. Unlike in Svbtle the interface seems fine enough. I like the font. It seems more writer and proper. The problem with writing now, it is everywhere unlike then. Everywhere as in even on Instagram. What is more important is to have an audience that consumes material a content creator produces.