Mark is on the move

Mark Nichols has a blog I sometimes dip into. He’s just finishing off one life and heading for another. Here is the start of his latest post:

Yes, just two more entries will be made in this blog following this one. I have already ‘booked’ my new professional blog site and will activate it as of 12 January 2007. I am considering flicking to a ‘bitsy’ format, updating it daily, rather than placing a ‘mega-post’ each week. Feedback and comments on this format vs that are most welcome!

I tried to post a comment, but beta.blogger.com is not working at the moment. Here’s my 2c worth.

What you could consider is an aside. I am at a loss to find anything on this idea in any sort of comeplete form on the internet – I am wondering if the term is more of a wordpress one. See for example: http://wordpress.org/tags/asides

The place where I saw these first was this blog: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/

The tp part is a normal blog post, the items below are “Asides”
Tim Greig has them implemented below his featured ONE post:

We are currently implementing something like this in the forums in Interact: posts and postlets. A post is a little more something with substance, a postelet just a quick comment.

Photo Matt has talked about this:

As you may have noticed on this page or in your aggregator my normal entries are now interspersed with smaller link and commentary entries represented in an unordered list. These fall in chronological order with my other entries and are real posts with permalinks, comments, categories, trackbacks, and pingbacks. I have been wanting to do this for a long time and there was a flood of entries when I first got this working. I fully expect to post in this category with a much higher frequency than my normal posts. I come across things all the time that I want to link so badly but I just don’t have the time to write an entry about. Now every interesting tidbit I come across is just a click of a favelet away from my readers. It’s liberating.

This is basically a form of asides.
He follows this with another comment:

The format of a weblog dictates its writing. There is no getting around this. Ever since my redesign I’ve had these big important titles that—as a writer—are intimidating. Everything I write has to be worthy of its 32-point Dante banner. This was a deliberate to force myself to put more thought and effort into my entries and it has worked; some of my best writing has been since the redesign. It has been stifling as well. To express what I want to express these days I need something more dynamic.

Big well crafted posts take time and energy: having the opportunity to post a post/postelet or post/aside I think is quite neat. In wordpress you would implement asides with the plugin.

Maybe (Mark) this is what you need!!  I reckon as soon as you start posting quick throughts, it wil only be a little time before you need to post bigger thoughts.