Single versus aggregated posting

(This is my second administrative post today. I’m clearly overthinking this.)

I wonder if I should continue aggregating my posts or if I should switch to single posts, clustered temporally. I chose aggregated posts at the beginning because I hate RSS inbox clutter and I didn’t want my readers to deal with it either. The downside to aggregated posts is that they reduce my ability to categorize and find posts.

How do I clearly title a post containing several items? Titling it with the date is not descriptive enough but if I get too descriptive, the title ends up being a short paragraph. Where’s the balance and how long do I want to work on achieving it? What do I tag aggregated posts? How do I organize the post internally?

Aggregation just doesn’t seem worth it if my only interest is to reduce RSS inbox clutter for myself and other people. Plus, it’s not like I’m posting 10 times a day.

I’ve decided to introduce a more flexible format: I’ll usually post items singly but aggregate them whenever it’s appropriate. I’ll also look at ways of offering the option of subscribing to a traditional RSS feed and one that aggregates the previous day’s posts.

Running out of Images

Let’s take the current standard for high quality images, 1080p hi def video. It’s surprising to realize that that frame contains a finite number of possible images. I thought it would be interesting to figure out just how many, so I wrote a little Python expression to do the math.

It’s a big number. The author draws an interesting conclusion. Go read it.

Clique reshuffle

I devised the clique format in part to change my patterns of attention. It’s only been around for a couple of weeks but I can already tell that we’ll need to shuffle some members soon. Another part of me also wants to stick it out a little longer with the current group. As a compromise between these two impulses, I’ll replace one member of the clique but wait until March 15 to do it.