LiveBlogging 4 : Metablogging Lore 16:28 | 05-09-2026 | Saturday Hellooo everybody, I am at the Indie Web Club meetup again! I don't really feel like writing today because I feel so tired, but I'll put a little something out, just to comemorate the live writing session. One of the prompts for today that I liked was "How does an idea qualify to be a post on your website?". So maybe I will talk a little bit about that. To be very honest, my blog isn't very old, and most of the impetus to post so far has been through LiveBlogging or Blogust. But I did still have to pick topics to write on, and I did have at least a little bit of a pattern for that. So the reason I started this blog was that there are many times in a week when I discover something through rabbithole research, or form a very strong opinion on something that I see around myself. At the time, I used to just put this into a very long text message and send it to my other, nerdy friends who appreciate random information. But at some point, I felt like I could compile and format this information so that more people could benefit from the entertainment. After discovering neocities, I felt it was perfect for my purposes of expressing myself, so I finally created this website. Today, many of the posts that exist here, which talk about a specific topic (for any length) were born from my Strong Feelings on a subject after I stumbled onto it. All of these would have previously been on a little groupchat somewhere (my groupchat members, you know who you are). Apart from this, most of my blogging is simply a journal, with a very low "polishing" threshold for posting. I do want the information to be somewhat presentable (aside from Phoneblogs), but I mostly concentrate on completing the post's content. There is definitely a sort of requirement that what I am saying on the post has to have at least one interesting point that I wanted to communicate. If I were ever to write a 'journal' style post and find that it is simply a log of what I activities I did that day, I would rewrite the post or discard. There has to be a point to posting it instead of simply writing in my journal, there has to be some kind of finding or opinion expressed. So far, these barebones requirements have been really helpful in being able to put out posts without letting me self-sabotage by scrutinizing too much. I am very proud of myself because writing on this blog has been one of the first examples in my life of overcoming perfectionism and actually putting something I made out there. Letting myself be authentic and unpolished on the blog also removes friction from the posting process, which, as it stands, is a little cumbersome right now. If I ever had a more formal blog with a theme, where I was specifically publishing a sort of finished essay everytime, I would probably have to rework these priorities. That was all from me today, see you all soon! Love, Aeish <3