This chain letter-esque post has been doing the rounds, and in the spirit of trying to rebuild my blogging muscle I thought what better to blog about than blogging? This post is a bit of a love letter to having your own place on the web, no matter how simple.
A Coffee In a hand and a pen in the other, that's how writers write in Writer's Lane. Cafes and Bookstores form the heart of this Victorian-style neighborhood. In this district, you never know what story you'll find.
Running your own blog helps you keep an online journal of your life and thoughts that doesn't depend on unreliable tech platforms like Facebook or Twitter. But this process is still needlessly complicated and certainly not user-friendly for regular people.
I found this post by ava about the parallelism between blogging and romanticism magnificent: Blogging that’s personal and reflective (and not just how-to’s, …
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Updated June 19th, 2023
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Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it?
Today, I want to introduce you to a concept – and a vision for the future of our species in the digital and networked age – that I’ve spoken about for a while but never specifically written about:
(we)bsite
(we)bsite is a living collection of internet dreams from people like you, inhabitants of the internet. It aims to create space to hold, show, and uplift everyday visions and hopes for the internet.
Library of Babel | A project towards a universal library
The Library of Babel is a place for scholars to do research, for artists and writers to seek inspiration, for anyone with curiosity or a sense of humor to reflect on the weirdness of existence - in short, it’s just like any other library. If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period.
At work today someone asked today about how we recapture the magic of the early days of blogging. I have some ideas. First, I don’t think that magic is gone! Sure, a lot of people moved to so…