Stock and Flow
I've been thinking about blogging lately. I've been thinking about how my main site BradMcEntire.com works and how I use this LiveJournal. Since I don't use Twitter or a Tumblr (yet?), I use Facebook and this platform to serve those functions. I post stuff I'm thinking of, or cool stuff I've found here and on FB. I use my main site sort of as a portfolio of my work and to center in on my art-making.
I may find use for both Twitter and Tumblr later on, but much like getting into Facebook, I won't move on it until I can find a valid, beneficial use for it.
With that in mind, I recently read a neat thought about how different platforms can be used in different ways...
Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people that you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years?) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time.
- Robin Sloan, on “Stock and Flow”
I may find use for both Twitter and Tumblr later on, but much like getting into Facebook, I won't move on it until I can find a valid, beneficial use for it.
With that in mind, I recently read a neat thought about how different platforms can be used in different ways...
Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind people that you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the content you produce that’s as interesting in two months (or two years?) as it is today. It’s what people discover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, building fans over time.
- Robin Sloan, on “Stock and Flow”