Indie or “punk” publishing is hard because blogging’s a solitary pursuit
Because blogging is based on techno-individualism it can be hard to set up your own website. We need more co-operation.
The Slow Web | Jack Cheng
A popular old essay about finding calm and rhythm online.
Building a slow web
The internet can feel like it's built for speed.
You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't control the feed. Your role is
Splitting the Web | par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
There’s an increasing chasm dividing the modern web. On one side, the commercial, monopolies-riddled, media-adored web. A web which has only one objective: making us click. It measures clicks, optimises clicks, generates clicks. It gathers as much information as it could about us and spams every second of our life
Rediscovering the Small Web | Neustadt.fr
Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simply to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.