Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines…
This blog post on Unstory is short, but really impactful. 5 paragraphs, and will never rank for anything, but it’s hit me more than any blog post I remember in the past few months.
I often think about short blog posts. I was an attendee of the school of a minimum of 300 words to rank in search engines. Often filling up space and therefore losing impact. But it ranks. Shit. But it ranks.
Unstory talks about how their writing disappears, so I was thinking of quoting the entirety here. But will just leave it on their blog, and encourage you to read it there. I feel eventually the link above will disappear. But so be it. Click the first post and read it there.
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Long posts waste too much time for everyone. They often say less than short ones do. The idea is often buried under tons of words. Writers or big media often try to tell you the whole prepackaged story. From the start to the end. Something that you can upload to your brain. What happened, why, who is good and who is a villain. Zero space for a reader. No intelligence or thinking needed.
If you don’t explain everything, not everyone gets it, obviously. But you can cover every angle and put all facts of the world in the piece; still, many will not get it because of their own narratives and ideologies. Also, it’s not a writer’s job to convince anybody about anything. But if you just point into something, without judgment, without taking a side, then maybe more people can take something. Not everything what you meant, but something based on their own beliefs.
Machines get the clean version.
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