Building community out of strangers: /Blogroll – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Last week, I updated my blogroll to include everyone in my RSS feed reader. While I read a lot of topical blogs and newsletters, I also follow a goodly number of interesting people I don’t know as well as acquaintances. I didn’t include these personal blogs on my blogroll before, but decided it was time to add them.
This is a fork of the excelent vore.website (source) RSS feed reader. You can find the source code for Mire on Codeberg. Any contributions are welcome!
Websites can programmatically define a blogroll using OPML. These blogrolls help people who read your blog discover other websites you think are worth promoting.
A diagram showing how an OPML blogroll can link to RSS feeds, which in turn can each link to another OPML blogroll, and so-on
This project maps connections between websites, web feeds (RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds), and OPML blogrolls. The size and interconnectedness of the network can be tracked over time. Exploring the network can help you discover new websites recommended by bloggers you already follow.
JUnited is all about supporting other bloggers (and their work) that I've come to appreciate. Some may know that I exist, while others... probably don't. My goal is to showcase 30 different bloggers1 throughout the month of June in this page.
I don't know all these folks, but visiting personal websites and blogs is my favorite part of the day. By no means exhaustive of the RSS feeds I’ve collected over the years, I went through and picked out these that still get updated with some frequency. I may have forgotten some and always open to...
Here’s a non-exhaustive list of blogs I enjoy reading.
Anton Zhiyanov
Brandon Rhodes
Brandur
Charity Majors
Dan Luu
Drew DeVault’s Blog
Fabien Sanglard’s Website
Harmful Stuff
Hynek Schlawack
Joel on Software
John Gruber
Julia Evans
Preslav Rachev
Simon Willison’s Weblog