Yesterday, just as an experiment, I tried to blog all of my the MakerBot related ideas and reactions. Here’s the result:
- Thank you MakerBot!!! [144 words]
- Thanking MakerBot for sending fluorescent red ABS and a spare parts kit along with my birthday order.
- Anticipation [140 words]
- Likening waiting on my application for the MakerBot blogger position to waiting for my grad school entrance results.
- MakerBlock’s MakerBot setup [376 words]
- Description of how my MakerBot is situated on a repurposed library card catalog.
- Why I want to work for MakerBot? [57 words]
- A few words about why I want to work for MakerBot. I’m kicking myself for not including this bit in my application. :/ Argh!
- Poll results so far [54 words]
- Of the poll respondents so far, one person wants MakerBot to hire me so that I will stop blogging so much.
- Plastruder MK5 plans released! [529 words]
- Thoughts on the new Plastruder MK5 plans – this was posted after someone noticed the MK5’s appearance in the photostream and wiki instructions, but a few hours before it was on their official blog or in the store. Thus, some thing wondered about may not be accurate. Fair warning. Oh, and I included a picture of a Cyberman because Cybermen are cool.
- Plastruder MK5, now with 85% less heartache! [276 words]
- Don’t get me wrong – I love my Batch 9 ‘Bot. However, the Plastruder MK4 has been challenging on occasion. This is basically a list, with Beak90’s help, of all the problems the revamped Plastruder designs should resolve.
- Why should you buy a MakerBot sooner, rather than later? [280 words]
- Why Tweet? [64 words]
- When their slogan has to do with following others and having people follow you, “Bleeter” just makes more sense. This post was inspired by my thinking about recent Twitter activity. And, the only reason for my Twitter account and the people that I follow is because of my interest in MakerBot.
- MakerBot Business Idea #5 [237]
- I’ll cut to the chase here: The idea is to start a small scale small replacement/repair business and advertise at your local hardware store
- What’s the minimum cost to upgrade to a MK5 Plastruder? [95 words]
- Sourcing a minimum number of parts from MakerBot for the new MK5 Plastruder. (Spoiler: It looks like $106 in new parts.) Guys, any chance we can see a Plastruder MK4 to MK5 upgrade kit? I wouldn’t mind a MK4 to MK5 upgrade that excluded prior upgrades like the MK5 gear and relay board kit to reduce duplication for early adopters. :)
2252 words blogged in one day – NaNoWriMo, here I come!
- I had to own the Rio PMP300 when it first came out in 1998! And yet, I still have never owned an iPod or iPhone. Go fig. [↩]
- And nigh inevitable [↩]
The quality of your posts suffered greatly in that exchange. Remember blogging is not tweeting, and what you did was long form tweeting.
Your better than that.
Ah, the Diamond Rio PMP300!!! Weird parallel-port cable, easily broken battery door. Still, the Best Thing Evar when it came out. Not to be confused with the band.
On another note, it looks like several of those posts were Tweet-length. Time to spread the MakerBlock empire?
+1 for the above. A superficial skimming of many subjects rather than a well thought out and more meaningful post about one thing. I’d rather read a thousand words encompassing the new Mk5 than two thousand words on eight different topics.
Dna
@Spacexula: I agree, some of those posts were tweet-length. Then again, so were the thoughts. :) It was an experiment and not one for which I would apologize. I would say that of the 11 posts, there were perhaps two or three which would have made it to publication on a normal day.
@Marty: Ah, the Diamond Rio… I remember it well. Mine was a slightly later version that had 64megs onboard, upgradeable with another 64. I remember I had replaced it’s startup animation with my own animation of the Napster logo. :) As above, I concede some posters were Tweet-length – except I prefer to blog rather than Tweet. Tweets get lost after a time and I tend to refer back to my own posts a lot. Sometimes I post several little items because I want to refer to them again in a later, much longer and more cohesive post.
@Dna: Eleven posts about eight topics is a symptom of ADD, not lack of thoughtfulness. Why must you mock my disease, you insensitive bastard!?!
‘Cause I’m an insensitive bastard. :)
There’s a cure for ADD. You put a little lead ball in your left ear.
With a rifle … :D
Just kidding. Keep blogging. (although perhaps not quite as many in one day … ;))
Dna
@Dna: Jeez, man… I know a cure for cranky readers. Stop reading. ;) I can understand not everyone appreciating some of the shorter posts of less substance. However, reading complaints about the multitude of shorter posts in the same day as a smaller number of longer more thoughtful posts is like hearing someone complain about free appetizers the chef sent along with your entrees. I thought at least 2-3 of those posts were the sort of thing I would have written even if I wasn’t conducting that experiment.