TIL my Tumblog (which reposts my posts from here) turned 17 years old back in March. Tumblr was quite a place in its time. I remember starting The Watercolor Gallery there and it exploding in growth (did you know I’m slowly restoring that website? Go take a look it is getting there).
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Red Bull’s website has a blog post about photography on it (cool!) that says “Blogs aren’t really a thing anymore.” (ironic, and not cool!). I’m glad I’m not fond of Red Bull.
Terry Godier on the boring internet
Terry Godier: The blogs you read in 2012 redirect to parked domains. The forums where you learned what you know got bought, gutted, redesigned, and left to rot. Terry must be tons…
More friction, less reach
What should I post here? What should I post there? I'm struggling to find a balance that I like. My deepest self says post everything here, right on my own personal website….
Elizabeth Spiers on blogging
Elizabeth Spiers, writing on her own blog again finally, about how blogging is better than social media platforms because it is harder to pick a fight. I'm generalizing off course, go read…
Andre Franca on the small web
Andre Franca: The small web persists not because it's winning any battle against platform dominance, but because some things are worth doing regardless of scale. These independent voices, scattered across their own…
Manuel Moreale: “the web is alive”
Manuel Moreale, encouraging us all to follow all the links in his seminal series People & Blogs… This series lives on my blog but has nothing to do with me. It exists…
Merlin Rebrović on personal websites
Merlin Rebrović on personal websites being like tending a garden: Sometimes I put in more time and effort, sometimes I neglect it for a bit, depending on the season and other pressures…
Molly White on RSS as a newspaper
Molly White recently wrote about how publications are moving to publishing newsletters because their search traffic is dwindling. One downside to us readers is that managing a bunch of newsletter subscriptions creates…
Florian Ziegler discontinues monthly posts
Florian Ziegler: I tried to do these monthly posts for a while because I like to read them when others post them. But I always forget to write down things I’ve been…
Jeremy Keith just publishes
Jeremy Keith, in his interview on Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series: I never write down those things bouncing around in my head. I know I probably should. But then if I’m…
Does my blog need to support ActivityPub?
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn't RSS enough?
On the need to disrupt the structure of a blog
Chris Armstrong, advocating for a digital garden over a blog structure: A blog structure places the highest emphasis on ‘what’s new’… but what’s new has had the least scrutiny and little authority….
I’ll read it too
Manuel Moreale helps remove a new blogger's fear of having no readers by committing to be the first. Count me in too.
Please publish more (on your website)
Jeff Triplett urges us to publish more from our own domains. I agree. But it isn't easy.
Arun Venkatesan on their blogging philosophy
Independence, Creativity, Connection.
Three key takeaways from FinCon 2024
A few NerdPress team members sponsored/exhibited at FinCon 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia this past week and I thought I'd distill the numerous conversations I had with attendees, speakers, and sponsors into three…
Diversions #5: Kayaking Psychonauts
Kayaking in July 2024 Few experiences have the serenity of kayaking on a lake. Especially in the evening at sunset. If you haven't kayaked, I highly recommend it. For years I kayaked…
Tracy Durnell on weeknotes
Tracy Durnell, who is very good at weekenotes: I don’t track anything that could make me feel actually bad about myself. I might be a little embarrassed if I don’t write as…
Molly White on building the web we want
Molly White: Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it's become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we…
An interview with Manton Reece for 2024
I interviewed Manton Reece about his journey with Micro.blog in 2018 and again in 2019. They've been fun to look back on as the service matures, grows, and changes. I'm a big…
Quoting Elliot Jay Stocks on how writing a newsletter feels different
Elliot Jay Stocks: When I first decided to start a newsletter, I’d assumed it’d be just like publishing a blog, but with a different delivery method — but I was completely wrong….
The first rebuilding blocks
Korczak Ziolkowski wakes up early on a bitter cold winter's morning – the same way he has for several decades – after breakfasting and a few mugs of the hottest coffee his…
Colin Walker on what he gets from blogging
Colin Walker, on his personal blog (which is looking sharp as ever) about what he gets from blogging in public: "I feel compelled to write, to share, and there is an intense…
Doubling down on Mastodon
The ease of Ivory on Mastodon has me sharing a lot more than I had been over the last few years. Ivory is on my phone, tablet, and my laptop. It is…
Simon Reynolds on blogging
Simon Reynolds, in December, marking the 20th anniversary of Blissblog: I honestly can't see that anyone has invented a better format than the blog, at least for what I want to do….
Blogging is alive and well
Oh man am I happy! People that hadn't written on their blog in a long time are blogging again. Websites that hadn't been updated in many years, some over a decade, are…
Brent Stitcher on owning your audience
Brent Sticher, who writes a lot about my favorite programming language PHP (don't @ me), writes about the history of his personal blog and Twitter account and how he now owns his…
Take care of your blog
Robin Rendle: There will be lonely, barren years of no one looking at your work. There will be blog posts that you adore that no one reads and there’ll be blog posts…
Montaigne – Blog with Apple Notes
Montaigne: Build a website, blog, or portfolio using nothing but Apple Notes. Pretty cool.