2023 | 09 | 06
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Silos To Publish Their Thinking.
🖇️ I wrote a related piece yesterday.
This one takes the thought a step further, because it’s not just original posts … but also replies.
As so often happens to me these days .. I start to reply to a message somewhere in one of the interweb’s silos … you know where they are in control - not you … even down to how long your message should be … because … you know ‘they’ know best. When that happens, I start a new post on said silo .. where there isn’t a character limit .. but I find myself doing that less and less … because why do I want to give my original thinking to a silo that stores undifferentiated commodities like bulk chaff? That’s why I don’t write ‘content’ …
But these days there’s even more reason not to use the Silos for being the prime origin of your IP, your work, your thinking.
🖇️ The short ‘case study’ just yesterday is all about the problem.
My next post started as a reply to a very good LinkedIN post .. and is a prime example of the ‘too long’ problem. I’ll link to here when it is finished.
2023 | 09 | 05
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📸 230905 🖇️ #MBSept
They say that sometimes you can’t see the forest for the tree .. I know what they mean.
Don’t Trust The Silos
To those paying attention, this is old news … but recording it now because I think it is an excellent lesson as to why you should never … ever … trust a Silo. It’s theirs. The stuff you put there is theirs. Even our’ handle is actually ‘theirs’.
Case in point …. in 2011 Jeremy Vaughn created @music over on the ‘site formerly known as Twitter’
Fast forward to 2023 and the child king who now own said site took @music for himself … and as far as I can see kept all Jeremy’s followers.
Caveat … I don’t actually ‘know’ that .. but I do know that @music was set up in 2011 and today has 11 million followers. The ‘new’ handle @musicfan counts less followers than one of my old Twitter accounts - and I spent no time building a following over there.
The ‘at’ music account
The ‘new’ ‘at’ musicfan account
I used ‘at’ not ‘@‘ because I don’t want to link to them - but you have enough information to go see for yourself if you have interest.
2023 | 09 | 04
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The US Insurance companies are behaving exactly as you would expect them to … having taken monies in for decades … to ostensibly protect people’s property … now that they can see they might have to pay out. CANCELLED.
2023 | 09 | 03
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🪦 Jimmy? So young. Enjoy ‘Heavenville’.
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2023 | 09 | 02
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