Welcome to Web Curios, a regular(-ish) newsletterblogtypething all about stuff on the internet that its author finds interesting and thinks you might too
Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them
10+ years ago I created an annual list of websites that FORBADE you from linking to them, DEMANDED you write to ask for permission or LIMITED links to only their home page. Royal Mail even promised…
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.
The fewer requirements we have, the less of a burden these requirements become. The more often we have the same thing every day, the more likely they are to become a requirement.
This isn’t a prescription for how to live your life, but just something to consider.
I’m a 50-ish year old guy living in Birmingham U.K. I’ve a first-class degree in English literature, a career in education and setting up the computer book publishing house "glasshaus" behind me. I was member of the Web Standards Project‘s Accessibility Task Force . T
Just a linkblog, mainly for articles and individual blog posts that I find and want to share. I think of this as me being a DJ only playing articles rather than songs.
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...
Welcome to Trivium, my new blog that aims to merge the best parts of a tumblelog and a “classic” blog full of editorial, essayish content (which is not that classic at all, but this will be the topic of a later post).
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!
Long live hypertext! – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
Links — connections between ideas — are the magic system of the Internet. They power the open web, enriching online writing. Generative AI is the parasitic dark magic counterpart to the link.
What makes the Internet the Internet is the ability to hyperlink. Without it, you’re in a walled garden, and those have an admission fee: your self, proxied by the record of your entire online life.*