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Isn’t that what Twitter is for? ;)

Very Tumblr-like – very cool in a stream-of-consciousness kind of way.

I miss the long ass articles containing very interesting data

Came here to make a twitter remark. Beaten.

I’m excited to see where you go with this. Make sure you post a long article about your findings ;)

Tumblr style, eh?

I like the idea as a way to quickly share things… but why the no comments? If anything, some of these might lead to more open-ended discussions when there’s less post content to respond to.

Very kottke.org-like. Personally not a fan. Long posts take work and end up being clever. Single links/thoughts? That’s what Twitter is for; otherwise I can just go to delicious.com and look through the top bookmarks.

Sounds perfect for those nipple / napple moments eh Jason? ;D

Cool! (Quick response.) :-)

While I like the idea on the blog, it doesn’t work so great when the reader is looking at an RSS feed. When I pulled up both of them all I got was a single line and a big empty screen.

That said, I liked both postings, but I think a digest of these smaller posts (daily, weekly, etc) would be a good idea for the RSS feed. This would be similar to your “screens around town”.

Also, I second the question on comments. I could certainly foresee very interesting discussions springing from either of the two initial posts, just as much as with any other standard post.

like the posts – but the comments really need to stay.

The style really bugs the hell out of my grammar sense. Why is the single open quotation mark with no closed mark taking such a hold as a style? Is that a tumblr thing?

I think the idea is great though, its especially nice as little breaks in RSS reading.

*also bugged, my own incorrect form of “it’s”. Sorry, get the cat of nine tails…

I’d really like to see quick posts with useful tips or information. Going through my RSS reader is such a chore sometimes, so many long-winded posts. A lot of them have useful information, but there’s only so much you can read!

Give us some nuggets of wisdom, cool links, a memorable quote… looking forward to reading them!

Cool idea…I definitely think there’s a need for those in between topics.

As long as you guys keep up the great content and posts I’ve come to love, rock on.

So, you’re pretty much kickin’ it old school 37svn style— 37svn from back in the day

hmm… not sure how i feel about this yet. i usually only read svn when i see it on my igoogle page, which means this new posting methodology has 2 potential negatives:

- clicking through to a one liner post isn’t very informative, and almost a waste of time - it risks the chance that the more rich, longer posts will be pushed off my igoogle page if there are too many short ones, which would be a shame.

i would recommend having rss feeds for the following: - 1 rss feed that contains everything - 1 rss feed that contains only lengthy posts - 1 rss feed that contains only short posts

thanks, kyle

oh noes :( You can have your tmblr account for that or at least use kyle’s idea – separate RSS feeds for the “full” posts and the throw-away ones.

look disordered when a “quick post” is the first one on the front-page. If you are going to use this kind of post, then you should re-design the typographic side of SvN… or at least the titles.

I would prefer the longer posts. I really read your blog for insight from 37 Signals, not to click thru to other sources of information. So I would prefer not so have my attention to your postings be diluted by the shorter postings.

There are so many other blogs that just post quick links and quite a few of the blogs I subscribe overlap with each other just often enough than I can unsubscribe from one of them.

Sounds like you basicly need www.soup.io. Does everything you intend to do here.

Yeah, I’m not really a fan of this either. At the very least, you need to allow comments to get a good discussion going. But generally, I appreciate the longer, more thought-out posts.

Funny that Sam was involved with Project.ioni.st, which served as inspiration for Tumblr/soup.io, and now comparable features are being integrated into SvN, people say “inspired by Tumblr/soup.io”.

Deep.

I like the article about the financial crisis but was disappointed not to find any comments from fellow SVN readers. Living in Europe I was keen to read from people who keep it real. So: I’m fine with quick links but really like to read comments from the crowd here who adds so much value to SVN .

Not really digging the short posts in the RSS feed. How about a separate feed without them?

@RS: that was quick! Thanks for listening and granting my wish.

I’m not liking this new format. It’s cluttering my RSS feed with brief synapses that are best broadcast on twitter.

I would urge you guys to avoid becoming a high-bandwidth blog. Part of the reason I enjoy reading SvN is because the number of posts per day is just right =)