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Blogs = still the best representation of the Internet’s promise. Everyone should have a site that they own, not just a social media account (which are great for promoting blog posts).

— Ben Thompson (@benthompson) June 7, 2020

Ben, this call for everyone to have their own blog reminds me of Cal Newport’s recent discussion of the limits of expert Twitter. I am also interested in Thread Reader’s recent support for of micropub to aide blogging / archiving.

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Chris Aldrich (boffosocko.com)

While using that method for publishing is still my preference for owning the content first and syndicating it to Twitter, there’s another method that many educators might find simpler. ThreadReaderApp now has beta support for the Micropub Spec so you can publish Twitter threads directly to your blog.

This means that participants can write their threads directly on Twitter and reverse syndicate them to their websites if they support the Micropub spec.

Chris, really like the potential of this. I used it to capture my PressEdConf presentation. although I am not sure how much I would pay for it. However, for experts who spend more time on Twitter, I think it would be well worth a few dollars.