Links tagged with “blogging”
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I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format | Simon Reynolds | The Guardian
The article is, fortunately, more positive than the “outdated” in the title would suggest.
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blissblog: A Blogging Renaissance
Simon Reynolds on the joys of blogging, after twenty years of it. Does he have more active blogs than anyone else?
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Write.as — A place for focused writing.
Not sure I’d seen this before. Seems like a good, simple, blogging site with email subscriptions, micropayments, ActivityPub, etc.
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Elderblog Sutra: 13
On what the demise of Twitter, or an Elon Musk-ruled Twitter, might mean for the distribution of blogging.
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Increasing the surface area of blogging
On how to make RSS and blogging more visible. It is definitely hard to “point at” blogging.
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Shame. – Dirty Feed
On the reasons to keep your old writing online, compared with Robin Sloan and Frank Chimero’s decisions to delete a lot of theirs.
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Ye Olde Blogroll - Blogroll.org
“No one blogs any more,” they say. And yet…
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Following
Chris Aldrich’s (very long) blogroll. I like the idea of offering an OPML version of it.
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Quotebacks
Simple tool for quoting other sites in your posts. Seems very nicely done, and with good intentions. By Tom Critchlow and Toby Shorin.
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A Text Renaissance
For the “The Eighth Death of Blogging” section, half-way through, on the costs of a site being popular-ish, “a nightmare zone where monetization is janky and hard”.
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Your own hosted blog, the easy, free, open way
How to host a blog on GitHub Pages, doing all creating, writing, editing, uploading on the GitHub website. (via Simon Willison and Waxy)
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Notes: We’ve Got Blog (2002) (Kicks Condor)
“…my notes on the book We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture … a pretty decent compilation of blog posts from … mostly 1999-2002.” Great. Fascinating excerpts and commentary.
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blissblog: link think
Simon Reynolds, for the first section on the sociality, or not, of blogging. (via Warren Ellis Ltd)
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Elderblog Unlimited - OO 3 Feb 19
For the bit about “Elderblogging”.
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Elderblog Sutra: 1
“Old blogs must choose: should they turn into elder blogs, or should they turn into late-style blogs? One does not preclude the other, but you must decide what you solve for.” (via Warren Ellis)
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You Don’t Need WordPress: Create A Blog With Google Docs
What it says, which is an interesting idea. (via Giles Turnbull)
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Stacking the Bricks: How the Blog Broke the Web
I don’t agree with this - that the chronological format, and blogging software - somehow “broke” what was good about the early web, but it’s still interesting to consider.
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Blot
“Blot is a blogging platform with no interface. It creates a special folder in your Dropbox and publishes files you put inside.” (via Warren Ellis)
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MWeb - Pro Markdown writing, note taking and static blog generator App - MWeb
Sounds like a nice thing. Haven’t tried it. (via @gilest)
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About 1999.io
New blogging service from Dave Winer. I know, but I made things with Userland Frontier back in the day so I have a soft spot for his stuff sometimes. (via @spongefile)
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Known: create a single website for all your content
Hosted or self-hosted open source, personal CMS/blog that can send your posts, photos etc to Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, SoundCloud, etc. (via Warren Ellis)
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MyWord Editor is open source
Could be good. Who knows. I like the idea anyway. Blog-hosting server and client, both open source. (via @benbrown)
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Tiny Letters to the Web We Miss — The Message — Medium
Joanne McNeil on the recent rise of email newsletters and how they compare to the old days of blogging. (via @warrenellis)
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Oral History: Sex! Drugs! Apps! SXSW Interactive At 20 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
Mainly for the 2000 era memories, the Weblogs Roundtable, etc. I only felt like an observer - I wasn’t blogging and didn’t know anyone really - but I’m happy I was able to be there.
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Adactio: Journal—In dependence
Jeremy Keith collects a bunch of thoughts and quotes on the importance of hosting your own stuff, not posting to silos owned by companies that disappear with it all. (via Paul’s Mison)
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The Online Photographer: Open Mike: A Little Site
Just a nice post on the finances of running a blog as a job - advertising, Amazon affiliate links, selling books, etc. Often precarious.
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‘Kitten kitten kitten kittens’, Medium & TED(x) and RSSing since 2003.
I don’t really understand Medium. Or, I don’t understand why people write on/for it. I don’t understand why it makes me uneasy and why I feel regret when someone writes there rather than their own blog. Rev Dan Catt has more thoughts.
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Thinking out loud in paragraphs
Yes, there’s something here, between Twitter and blogging. See also Matt Webb’s “Instagram for Webpages”
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The Sex Myth: How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)
Some good (but, as she says, far from exhaustive) and interesting tips on how to blog anonymously, by Brooke Magnanti / Belle du Jour. (via @tomcoates)
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MCEngine – The micro-comment engine | andydickinson.net
Another WordPress plugin for adding ability to comment on paragraphs (or just add “Winer Links” linkable paragraphs). Ah, it’s a newer, better version of feedbackBP. Sounds very good, can’t see any example though.
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WordPress › Feedback by Paragraph (feedbackBP) « WordPress Plugins
“This plugin allows users to leave comments at paragraph level as well as post level.” One of a few things that do this. Last updated in 2009… Update: Oh, replaced by MCEngine now.
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» Update 1 – From the Windy City Early Retirement Extreme: — a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism
Just for the metaphor about why it can be good to have a slightly popular blog, but not too popular: “if you’re living in the 16th century, discussing your round earth theory with fellow scientists is good. However, being publicly known as the round-earth guy will get you burned at the stake.”
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Dead Media Beat: tech blogs | Beyond The Beyond
Sterling on various blog posts wondering Bout the death of blogging. I read a lot of blogs, but I don’t read any of those “professional” blogs the pundits say are dying. I won’t notice.
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The Business of Blogging | The Sartorialist − BoF – The Business of Fashion
How ‘The Sartorialist’ blog makes money. (Mainly advertising, but a few other sporadic things too.) (via @GreatDismal)
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I will commit £23.32 per month to a citizen-run news service for Leeds… – Matt Edgar
Interesting… trying to get a regular, quality, local, online news-site funded. Not by individual readers paying, or by one deep-pocketed entity paying, but something in between. (via gilest)
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Doonesbury Strip - Oct 14, 2008
“This *is* Rick Redfern, Post political reporter, right?” “Um… No. I write a blog now.” “Oh… I’m so sorry, man. I didn’t know.”
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The Economics of Blogging and The Huffington Post - NYTimes.com
“One reason that The Huffington Post gets a lot of criticism for not paying its bloggers is because most people think of it as a publishing company, when really — like Facebook — it is more of a technology company.” (via Daring Fireball)
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How did WordPress win?
Byrne Reese, ex of Six Apart, on why WP has won out over Movable Type. A shame, but then I always start new blog projects in WP these days. (via Waxy)
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The End of Blogging | The New York Observer
Often, as here, the people noticing “the end of blogging” seem to have a very, very narrow definition of what “blogging” is. Thankfully, they’re wrong. (via Waxy)
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Digress.it
A WordPress plugin (and more) that adds the ability to comment on paragraphs of a text (like CommentPress I guess?). The UI feels a little clunky.
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…and the ‘blog’ you rode in on
Found this lurking on my hard drive from, perhaps, the “middle-early ages” of blogging.
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Python Package Index : Mezzanine 0.2.2
“A content management platform built using the Django framework” and with a nice WordPress-style admin interface.
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Live blogging the general election | Media | The Guardian
I think this was the most useful, interesting, to-the-point, immediate, high-signal, and simply best news media I’ve experienced in a long, long time. (via Simon Willison)
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Eleven Django blog engines you should know | Monty Lounge Blog
Fairly recent round-up.
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The benbrown website :: daily text
Ben Brown’s 6985 word account of his SXSW 2000 and *that* weblog panel. A lovely piece, still worth a read.
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Comments on 1142 | MetaFilter
A bit more flurry about weblogs and “3000 word” Ben Brown-style essays, post SXSW 2000. Quaint.
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Hack the Planet: Are you sure?
A post-SXSW2000 discussion about weblogs and cliques and oh all those things that now seem so old.
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Commentpress
“An open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text.”
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The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine
Ignore the stupid title as it’s worth a read. About people who do custom page designs for every blog post.
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Jorn Barger, the NewsPage Network, and the Emergence of the Weblog Community | Tawawa.org
Fascinating history of the early days of weblogs, with a prominent place for Dave Winer’s NewsPage stuff, which I remember being important to me (the Haddock Directory started on Userland Frontier in 1997). (via Preoccupations)