How Micro.blog’s Discover is curated
Jean MacDonald: The Discover timeline has evolved and will continue to evolve with the community. The guidelines will evolve too. We want to have additional curators from the community. We need to…
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Khoi Vihn on the impact his blog has had on his career
Khoi Vihn, in an interview on Own Your Content: It’s hard to overstate how important my blog has been, but if I were to try to distill it down into one word,…
On blog search engines
Brent Simmons has been reminiscing about blog search engines and writing down some ideas for how one could be made today. Something he wrote sparked a memory. Instead of having it crawl…
Chris Coleman returns
Chris Coleman, on his 17-year-old and recently unearthed personal blog: I want my platform back. I don’t want algorithms or the cacophony to drown it out. If nobody’s going to see what…
Joshua Blankenship celebrates 15 years of having a blog
Joshua Blakenship (dude has a name like a superhero doesn't he?) on 15 years of blogging and on bringing his personal blog back online: I don’t know much, but I know I…
Fred Wilson on AVC becoming an email newsletter
Fred Wilson, in a post where he contemplates his blog becoming an email newsletter to reduce his technical debt in running a blog: Many AVC readers don’t bother with any of that…
A new interview with Manton Reece of Micro.blog for 2019
Last year, around this time, I published an interview with Manton Reece – founder of Micro.blog (M.b) – about how the platform was growing and what the goals for 2018 were. It…
Baremetrics left Medium last year
Josh Pigford, last year, on leaving Baremetrics leaving Medium: I realized Medium is really great about surfacing content, but it removes the face of it. It neutralizes all content to basically be…
Responses to RSS isn’t dead. Subscribing is alive.
There were a number of responses to RSS isn't dead. Subscribing is alive. Partly due to being on Micro.blog Discover and perhaps also due to Brent Simmons linking to it (thanks Brent!)….
RSS is not dead. Subscribing is alive.
Sinclair Target, writing for Motherboard: Today, RSS is not dead. But neither is it anywhere near as popular as it once was. This isn't the first nor the last article to cover…
Signal v Noise exits Medium
DHH: These days Medium is focused on their membership offering, though. Trying to aggregate writing from many sources and sell a broad subscription on top of that. And it’s a neat model,…
Dialog out of beta
Mike Haynes: We appreciate everyone’s patience as we worked through the development process and look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback. Mike may see the development and launch of Dialog as…
Repost: Anton Peck on blogging in 2019
👉 Anton Peck on Twitter: Prediction: 2019 will be a noticable shift back to blogging. Social networks may see a slight hit. People have things to say, ideas to write about, stories…
Ton Zijlstra linking curiosity to his blogging
Ton Zijlstra, replying to Frank Meeuwsen's post that was replying to my post, took a different angle: Over the last 16 years my blog has been a good instrument to trigger, feed…
My crypto and indie web goals for 2019
Steven Johnson, in Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble: The true believers behind blockchain platforms like Ethereum argue that a network of distributed trust is one of those advances in software architecture that will…
Leo Laporte leaves Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook
Leo Laporte: Yesterday I deactivated my Twitter account and kicked Tumblr to the curb. A couple of weeks ago I did the same with Instagram. A month or so before that I…
Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
👉 Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
Keeping a record of your thoughts and media and owning it
Go ahead and read Matt Haughey's post on why he left Twitter. But I wanted to pull out this bit: I didn’t like that everything I wrote ended up being hard to…
Laura Kalbag on blogging
Laura Kalbag: When I wrote about owning and controlling my own content, I talked about trying to keep my “content” in its canonical location on my site, and then syndicating it to…
We got blogging right 20 years ago – Jack Baty
Jack Baty: Looking at my blog from 2003 makes me think we got blogging right early on. Yep. Everything else has been additive. But a blog from 20 years ago, like mine,…
One year of Micro.blog
Manton Reece: A little over a year ago we started rolling out Micro.blog to Kickstarter backers. So much has happened since then — from new Micro.blog platform features to companion apps like…
Daily blogging is freeing
Dan Moore on how blogging every day for 100 days lessened the pressure of publishing: But once I committed to writing once a day, I was focused on getting something out. I…
Three updates to my site
I've recently made three small updates to my site. I suppose the first one isn't so small. I've changed web hosts. Last week I migrated this site from WP Engine (which was…
Simmons returns to the blog
Brent Simmons: I realized that I want my blog to be me on the web. This used to be true, but then along came Twitter, and then my presence got split up between two…
Austin Kleon on daily blogging
Austin Kleon: Also, quite frankly, Twitter turned into a cesspool almost overnight. My friend Alan Jacobs was very vocal about his split from Twitter, and after reading his vibrant blog and new book, How To…
Repost: Becky Hansmeyer on deleting blog posts
👉 Becky Hansmeyer: Every once in awhile I have to fight off the urge to go through my blog and delete old posts that I consider stupid or poorly written. I have to…
Dean Allen
I did not know Dean Allen. But you couldn't have been a blogger in the early 2000s without coming across, and admiring and swooning over, Textism – Dean's blog. I was no…
An interview with Manton Reece of Micro.blog
I have fond memories of the very early days of WordPress (when it had just been forked from b2/cafelog), of Twitter, of Brightkite, of App.net, of Mastodon… just to name a few….
Fred Wilson on owning your content
Fred Wilson: I would never outsource my content to some third party. I blog on my own domain using open source software (WordPress) that I run on a shared server that I…
An update via Android (audio)
A quick audio bit, recorded while driving through my car's audio system for part of it (sorry), regarding upcoming blog posts and reviews of Android and the Pixel 2 XL. Download audio