This site has 69 contributors, surely a propitious number. We got a lot of new software this week, including shortcodes and the Markdown markup language.
Markdown is an EZ way to get to formatted text, emulating in many ways longstanding Usenet markup conventions. Chances are, if you work in it, you will have to learn nothing of the underlying nuts-and-bolts. The list below was written simply with asterisks, typewriter style:
- Easy to use.
- Hard to confuse.
- Aaron Swartz, the inventor, was hounded to death by the Deep State. His productivity lives on in you.
Shortcodes are easy ways to effect big jobs. Witness Mister Jack White:
The code for that was precisely this:
The word ‘youtube’ in brackets with the link to the video. Easy-peasy, and the theme will manage every sort of screen size on its own – desktop, tablet, smartphone.
The link above summarizes all of the available shortcodes, but the docs that matter are here: Extending the Youtube shortcode.
So the first challenge to our contributors is simply to post. Could not be easier to post amazing content.
The second challenge is harder: Forecast the future. Pandemic, protests, politics: What are they doing where you are, and what portents will the future bring? Our contributors are all over the country. There is much they can teach us.
There are two challenges to making a blog work: Content and conversations. The latter are caused by the former.
Greg Swann says:
Markdown is deployed in comments, as well, thus to make you look:
If you need more than that, read the docs.
August 23, 2020 — 7:44 am
Brian Brady says:
I can’t encourage people enough to post and comment. We have a great group of contributors and I hope we will find some more who want to talk about how residential real estate is changing (or how it’s staying the same).
Let me dangle the carrot for you– your customers will read your work here. I know. I hear, at least 5-6 times a year, “I read you on that bloodhound site”
August 23, 2020 — 11:07 am
Greg Swann says:
Echoing Brian: There is much in our archives that can be refreshed and replanted, but – ahem! – sufficient unto this very day are real estate problems enough. It’s heaven for sellers where I am, right now, but what does the world look like three months from now?
Atop that observation, I would add this one: Links conjoin conversations.
Earlier tonight I cited an old post on Facebook on linking as a demonstration of probity. It is also my longstanding contention that Linking Frees Slaves – links emancipate ideas. But in the present context, outbound links announce your presence to the folks you are talking about. I know from experience that picking a fight with an armada of murder hornets is the fast way to jump-start a weblog, but polite notices work, too. 😉
Inlookers: If you want in, say so.
The post on links is here: https://www.bloodhoundrealty.com/BloodhoundBlog/3086/
August 24, 2020 — 12:04 am