unlock simultaneous writing
In Links: Lonely blogging, Fran showcased these communal blogging avenues:
On which subject I refer you of course to Bear's very own Grizzly Gazette. I also recently encountered pastagang and their blog. Communal blogging right there.
In response to Grizzly Gazette's technical challenges in setting up a multi-author blog on a platform which does not support such things (props to Kami) Imperfect looked at Pagecord's blog-by-email as an option too.
Thankfully, multiplayer writing can be simpler. Compared to that independent web essence of "writing together" on your own website, you can delve even deeper into simultaneous multiplayer writing. Visa outlines that possibility and more in his Google Docs one-pager, based and googledocs-pilled. Read this excerpt contrasting "lonely blogging" with how Twitter's vital aspect can also arise within such documents:
You can share links with other people and give them view, comment or edit access. Part of the frustration of working alone is that you can get lost inside your own head. Part of what’s great about twitter is that you can get feedback on everything, via likes, replies, retweets, quote-tweets. You can work in a google docs and solicit comments from people, which makes the doc feel more “alive”. Also yeah, I can invite someone here in seconds and get comments from them in seconds.
For those resistant to or abstaining from providers like Google, what else gives Google Docs a run for its money? While Proton explains How to collaborate in Docs in Proton Drive, are there any other viable options out there?