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Making content that lasts

Mickey Mellen
2 min readDec 24, 2021

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The odds are high that you’ll create some kind of content today, with the majority of it likely being on social media. Will it last?

Seth Godin recently shared about the “cultural half-life” of ideas, and how our world is moving increasingly toward vaporous ideas that come and go as the social media algorithms move on to the next click of the day.

There’s really two aspects to what Seth is trying to say: systems and content.

Systems

For systems, I’m talking about sharing your ideas on a platform that you control so that they don’t fade away. With my site, I can easily reference back to posts from years ago (like discovering WordPress in 2004), which is much more difficult with social media. Using Facebook as an example, they weren’t even open to the public until 2006, and it’s likely that people will move on to other platforms over the next 17 years.

Content

The other side is content. I linked back to my old WordPress post, but it’s really not of much value today. It’s neat to point to it, but that’s really about it. The key on the content side is to write content that matters and will be valuable in the future, which is another issue altogether and is something I continue to work on for myself.

An Example

This came up for me recently when a friend published a great post about the future of WordPress. Myself and a few others left comments on his blog post to start some…

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Mickey Mellen
Mickey Mellen

Written by Mickey Mellen

I’m a cofounder of @GreenMellen, and I’m into WordPress, blogging and seo. Love my two girls, gadgets, Google Earth, and I try to run when I can.

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