Re: Using “Re:” in blog titles

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Using “Re:” in blog titles by Ruben Schade, 11 April 2025:

These are worth reading, but I wanted specifically to call out the syntactic choice Brandon made in his post responding to Jason:

Re: I’m Part of the Problem

It’s simple, but it hit me just how succinct it is, and how much information it conveys. It’s treating blogging more like a conversation, not unlike an email. I love this.

I think I've said it before, but I do like the blogosphere or indieweb tradition of replying to other people's posts by writing a post of your own. Adding 'Re:' to the post title just makes it even clearer, and looks good in feed readers.

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