I’m still working out blogging, micro or not.

What went well

Microblogging worked best when I was microblogging. Like when I had a photo I wanted to share. I would use my phone to take the photo, add the right filter and then post it online. Easy.

I was hiking in the Scottish Highlands for a week and didn’t want to use up all the data on my phone. If I took a photo there could be 3 or 4 different apps I’d need to use to send it to people that might be interested in it.

If I only uploaded the photo once, to my blog, and then shared the link I could cut down my internet usage.

What didn’t

Proper blogging didn’t work out so well.

On the first evening I found myself with wifi and a few hours to spare. Here I was able to write and publish a summary of the day using my phone. It was much more difficult and time consuming than capturing things live. Apparently I’m not one of those people that’s super productive on such a small screen.

I also wasn’t sure how much data I was using and decided to wait until I reached wifi to post again. Yet when I did find wifi I was tired. I had come on my trip to hike, not to write, so it was difficult to spare the time to edit the summaries and gave up.

The day logs have been much easier to write at home on my laptop. I was also able to edit the videos I took and trim them to the right length to fit onto Micro.blog. They aren’t anything special but it was fun to add a bit more character to my words and relive the trip a little now that I’m back and rested.

The first of those is day 2, which features 9 seconds of birds singing in a forest.