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  "title": "What were all those bullets for?",
  "tags": [
    "metablogging",
    "writing",
    "opml",
    "tinderbox"
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  "year": "2014",
  "month": "10",
  "day": "23",
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  "slug": "wtfomgbullets",
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  "date": "2014-10-23T19:00:00.000Z",
  "postName": "2014-10-23-wtfomgbullets",
  "html": "<p>Did you see <a href=\"http://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/23/wtfomgbullets/\">that thing I just posted</a>? Weird. Back when I used <a href=\"http://home.opml.org/\">Dave\nWiner's OPML Editor</a>, I used to have <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/bucket/?start=77&amp;count=7\">a daily habit</a> of opening a\nnew outline and popping over to it throughout the day to collect random\nthoughts. </p>\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I might build on one thing or another, and sometimes a full blog post would\nsprout out of one of them. Otherwise, I might just hit publish and put the\nwhole outline as-is on the web.</p>\n<p>I also tried using <a href=\"http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/\">Eastgate Tinderbox</a> for awhile like this. That was\ninteresting for capturing constellations of thoughts, but I found it harder to\nput that into <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/recaffeinated/\">a web-ready form</a> without reworking things into proper posts. An\noutline just seems to work as a bullet list.</p>\n<p>These days, this sort of microblogging happens on Twitter. But, that's like\ndropping seeds into a running stream. In they go, and then they're gone. The\nimpulse to get something out of my head is satisfied, but I never really come\nback to look at what came out <a href=\"http://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/\">or cultivate more</a>.</p>\n<!-- vim: set wrap wm=5 syntax=mkd textwidth=78: -->\n",
  "body": "Did you see [that thing I just posted][bullets]? Weird. Back when I used [Dave\r\nWiner's OPML Editor][opml], I used to have [a daily habit][habit] of opening a\r\nnew outline and popping over to it throughout the day to collect random\r\nthoughts. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI might build on one thing or another, and sometimes a full blog post would\r\nsprout out of one of them. Otherwise, I might just hit publish and put the\r\nwhole outline as-is on the web.\r\n\r\nI also tried using [Eastgate Tinderbox][tinderbox] for awhile like this. That was\r\ninteresting for capturing constellations of thoughts, but I found it harder to\r\nput that into [a web-ready form][tinderblog] without reworking things into proper posts. An\r\noutline just seems to work as a bullet list.\r\n\r\n[tinderblog]: http://decafbad.com/recaffeinated/\r\n\r\nThese days, this sort of microblogging happens on Twitter. But, that's like\r\ndropping seeds into a running stream. In they go, and then they're gone. The\r\nimpulse to get something out of my head is satisfied, but I never really come\r\nback to look at what came out [or cultivate more][today].\r\n\r\n[today]: http://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/\r\n[bullets]: http://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/23/wtfomgbullets/\r\n[tinderbox]: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/\r\n[opml]: http://home.opml.org/\r\n[habit]: http://decafbad.com/bucket/?start=77&count=7\r\n\r\n<!-- vim: set wrap wm=5 syntax=mkd textwidth=78: -->\r\n",
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  "summary": "Did you see that thing I just posted? Weird. Back when I used Dave\nWiner's OPML Editor, I used to have a daily habit of opening a\nnew outline and popping over to it throughout the day to collect random\nthoughts.",
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