After whinging a bit about not being able to keep up here, and contemplating some other platform, I did a bit of looking around and was reminded of this WordPress feature, which I seldom used before: Press It « WordPress Codex. It does make a quick posting pretty easy. Maybe all I need to do to maintain the flow is to use it more often. This being by way of a test.
Two ways to respond: webmentions and comments
Webmentions
Webmentions allow conversations across the web, based on a web standard. They are a powerful building block for the decentralized social web.
“Ordinary” comments