Welcome to Web Curios, a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too
This page represents a destination for links that do not yet exist! When I think of projects or formulate material for this site, I often find myself thinking of multiple posts at the same time, intertwined with each other. As a result, I place this "future link" where I would link to a future post that hasn't been published yet, and then I can later find the spots where I need to update links using a simple grep command.
Useful links that I've collected and wish to share or remember for the future. Everything from Internet culture, useful pieces of wisdom, other blogs, and more.
I put together this spreadsheet as a living resource for websites and digital places that reignite feelings of joy, excitement and curiosity while exploring the internet. Somewhere along the road, corporations and recommendation algorithms made the internet feel loud and unescapable. I like to think of the internet as a place where you can build a digital home that feels right for you.
The hand has become increasingly less present in the web as we know it today. Most websites today are built from templates on website-building platforms, and the knowledge of how to make a website from scratch is relegated to a select few. It has only grown easier to learn how to make websites, but the perceived requirements and expectations for a website have become so convoluted and arcane that many avoid the subject.
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.
Blog of the .Day: Explore the (indie) web, one blog at a time.
Every day, Blog of the .Day highlights a new blog. The blog is chosen at random and a new one should be deployed daily via Netlify. Joe Crawford became steward of this project in May
The web directory has been open since January 28, 2004 and is a place for all kinds of sites to be listed in various categories. If you would like to submit your site to the directory, read over the rules, grab yourself a button/code and add your website!
BlogFlock is a social network for reading, discovering, and sharing your favourite blogs and feeds with friends.
Create lists of blogs you love, and follow lists created by others. You can even use lists to aggregate Mastodon feeds, newspapers, Reddit subreddits, podcasts - anything that has an RSS or Atom feed.
These spaces that particularly stood out to me all had some quality of slowness, quiet, and/or gathering. We ought to carefully examine the qualities of the living environment that each web space provides for us.
The archive of interestingness is my attempt to create a tool to augment our own creativity and problem-solving by putting this idea to the test. The tool offers us three unrelated, but interesting, concepts and an invitation to make our own connections. If the combination isn't working to spark ideas, try remixing until you find one that does.