Writing Fragments

If you’re a regular reader of my site, you’ll have noticed that in the last few months I’ve been making a number of “fragments” posts. Such a post is a short post with a bunch of little, unconnected segments. These are usually a reference to something I’ve found on the web, sometimes a small thought of my own. A few years ago, I wouldn’t have covered these topics with posts on my own site. Instead I would use Twitter, either retweeting someone else’s point, or just highlighting something I’d found. But since the Muskover, Twitter has effectively died. I’m not saying that due to any technical issues with the site, which has mostly just been fine, nor directly due to any of the policy changes there. The point is that lots of people have left, so that the audience I would have reached with Twitter is now fragmented. Some remain on X, but I see more activity on LinkedIn. There’s also Fediverse/Mastodon and Bluesky. What this means for short posts is that I can no longer just post in one pl