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It may be difficult to remember now that Twitter is all the rage, but essayists often aim for that "timeless" quality. You want the essay to seem as relevant th
by mechanical_fish 17y ago
It may be difficult to remember now that Twitter is all the rage, but essayists often aim for that "timeless" quality. You want the essay to seem as relevant three years from now as it is today.
The web has more than enough content that feels stale after a week. Better to aim for something with a slightly longer shelf life.
- pyre 17y agoYea, but how is "my friend/business partner recently lost his entire blog due to poor backups, and it got me thinking..." not 'timeless?'
- mattmanser 17y agoNot poor backups, poor restores. You're missing the point of the article!
- oscardelben 17y agoIt's also poor backup. They thought the backup was being done by their hosting company while in reality it was failing silently.
- Periodic 17y agoA good backup is one that can be restored.
- pyre 17y agoA poor backup becomes a poor restore, while a good backup isn't necessarily a good restore. It's like quibbling over whether I said, "his car was completely totaled in the race" rather than, "he didn't win the race." No one thinks that not crashing your car implies that you've won a race, but you can't win a race with a crashed car.
- forensic 17y agoTo be honest, I don't give a shit about his friend/business partner. But I do like his idea. So I appreciate that he omits pointless personal details and just sticks to the meat of the article. When a writer expects me to read a bunch of self-indulgent cliche boilerplate I usually hit the back button.