NotesYou are viewing a humanly curated list of 681 fine personal & independent blogs and sites that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!FeedUnfurl
NotesThis setup takes a bit of initial work, but the payoff is enormous. Once it’s all set up, this workflow fades into the background - I just write, commit, and publish. No friction, no fees, and everything stays in my hands. If you’re looking for a lightweight, sustainable way to blog, this might be worth trying.Unfurl
NotesI love linking out to other sites. The strength of the open web is in its many connections between nodes…the more, the better. Links are the whole goddamned point of the web! I want to send people away from kottke.org to learn something new or have a chuckle and then come back the next day for more. The goal is connection, knowledge, and sharing — I proudly have no competitors in this endeavor, only collaborators. (This is just another sentence so that I can link to more folks who love to link.)FeedUnfurl
NotesAs blogging pioneer Dave Winer’s site turns 30, it’s a reminder that good writing and thinking has flourished beyond the reach of social mediaUnfurl
NotesToday's the big day. Thanks to John Naughton's wonderful piece in the Guardian, I'm hearing from people all over the world about what blogging means to them. I appreciate all of the messages, but would appreciate them even more if they were on your blog. We need to keep using the tech. Blogging is kind of lost, and I would like to see that change. Every time you post something you're proud of on a social media site, how about taking a moment and posting it to your blog too. And while there, if appropriate, link to something from some part of your post, even though the social media sites don't support linking, the web is still there and it still does. #FeedUnfurl
NotesHow I did this blog is nothing new, as a matter of fact many have done exactly what I did and it is well documented. This post is just on how I did it and since it is all very fresh in my mind I thought I would write a post about it. For other tutorials on how to do this checkout these:Unfurl
NotesBecause when I would spend my time flinging zingers at Matt Mullenweg about the merits of Movable Type vs. WordPress, you know who was winning? Mark Fucking Zuckerberg. Facebook won the blogging wars. The web became a more closed place than if either Movable Type or WordPress had evolved into the tool that powered social networking.Unfurl
NotesWhat does the future hold?
It is a good question. I have actually been thinking a lot about that lately and wondering how to reinvent the art form that I embraced over a decade ago. I don’t really have an answer, except that it is somewhere in the past and in the reasons why I fell in love with blogging.Unfurl
Notes This page has been added to allow people to download the Greymatter weblog software as the original download site at greymatter forums is no longer available. Unfurl
Notes"toto is a git-powered, minimalist blog engine for the hackers of Oz. The engine weighs around ~230 sloc at its worst. There is no toto client, at least for now; everything goes through git."Unfurl
Notes"You should be reading Anil Dash. First, the man still blogs. He has for ten years, and some of his best stuff is happening right now, when you and I have kind of punted on the actual work of reading, synthesizing and writing something durable. Twittering this, tumbling, favoriting. Bah. Dash’s rip roaring run reminds me that what matters are bold, thorough ruminations chocka with links and living at my domain. The rest is a temporary party. A funferall not building to much."Unfurl
Notes"Pay attention to what Craig says, and don't store anything on anyone else's server unless you know how you're going to get it off when you need to. Even better, don't store the original on someone else's server, keep that in your space and share a pointer to the data."Unfurl
Notes"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best."Unfurl
Notes"Fuck is just a word. I use it liberally when I don't feel like filtering (and I feel that by not filtering, the post will be better for it). So get over it, you bunch of pansy ass, oversensitive, hypocritical whiners."Unfurl
Notes"Whether your blog engine gets used or not, is liked or not, is evolved or not, it will be the best learning tool you can ever build for yourself."Unfurl
Notes"Please understand that blogs are not the same as traditional media and some bloggers couldn’t care less about your clients’ news. They just want to be left in peace. Please respect that."Unfurl
Notes"These rules (and their runes) create a scaffold for the brain, which, now able to engage with complex ideas in contemplative solitude as opposed to interlocution, begins to conceive of itself as an individual entity rather than as part of a collective. LUnfurl
Notes"Digital Westex Image Gallery has 60 different header art replacements that you can use instead of the one included in the default Kubrick Theme for WordPress 1.5 to more personalize your blog."Unfurl
Notes"Will it have typical time history, or might it get picked up by popular blogs and given a new lease of life? Nature will monitor its fate and reveal the results in a week's time. Watch this space."Unfurl
Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
How I write my blogs in Obsidian and publish instantly | Gautham Shankar
Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
Hyperlinks, the Open Web, and a Membership Appeal
The blogosphere is in full bloom. The rest of the internet has wilted | John Naughton | The Guardian
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