Bloglog

This is my entry for February’s IndieWeb carnival. This month is hosted by yours truly and I’d love to have you as part of this initiative. Digital …

This is the 23rd edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have …

one important thing i’ve learnt in life is that we have to be very intentional in our living, or time will just pass us by while we spend each single day numbed by familiarity and routines. every...

A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.

My favorite TV show, Northern Exposure (1990-1995) was entirely unavailable on any streaming service since streaming services existed. If you wanted to watch it, you had to get your hands on the DV…

I propose a theme for a new posting series, based on the concept of the small web but applied to life.

Recentering risk-benefit analysis on the living.

The speed at which interest in new feed aggregator apps has picked up steam shows how desperate people are to put the pieces of their digital lives together in some meaningful way.

Our relationship with digital technology is changing.

The record has often been dismissed as a curiosity, but it can bring you closer to the night of June 16, 1937.

Finished reading Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant. (ISBN: 9780316487733)

I have begun strength training for the first time in october last year. I had three personal training sessions before I traveled to japan, and when I got back there was a huge covid wave so I...

I'm dogsitting a three-year-old Maltese Shih Tzu mix today. Her owner dropped her off this morning. 'Princess' is a pandemic puppy; she shook with anxiety fo...

🔗 Want to sell a book or release an album? Better start a TikTok. - Vox: The internet has made it so that no matter who you are or what you do — from nine-to-five middle managers to astronauts to house cleaners — you cannot escape the tyranny of the personal brand. For some, it looks like updating your LinkedIn connections whenever you get promoted; for others, it’s asking customers to give you five stars on Google Reviews; for still more, it’s crafting an engaging-but-authentic persona on Instagram.

So, my daughter convinced me last week to go out to a local diner for a late lunch. I’m usually all about take-out and TV, because let’s face it, I hate people. And nowhere do I hate th…

Apple doesn't need developers

Recently I added some interesting publications to my RSS reader. One of them would have you know that they’re not happy with RSS—especially “༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ give FEED” reply guys, a personal trait I most definitely need to work on—but buried deep within their Very Good Blog™ lies a feed. A particular VC-funded long sandwich company has stirred up a bunch of noise I’d very much like to avoid diving into as I’m thoroughly bored of this cycle, but the submary for when I read this in a few years (never) is that they made subpar decisions about dealing with subliterates on their platform and their subordinate sandwich makers realized, ‘oh swiss, I can subsist elsewhere with less bologna’.

For this month’s IndieWeb carnival I explore what science has to say about comparing our digital and physical relationships

This is my response to Manu's article for the IndieWeb Carnival on digital relationships. As someone who grew up in the 90s, I spent my formative years and …

Longest Voyage is Jamie Crisman's home for notes, bad writing, and randomly updated blog: This is my IndieWeb Carnival post. The main focus of the carnival is to motivate people to write on their personal sites. Each month a different blogger hosts the carnival and they decide a theme. This month is hosted by Manu and if you haven’t guessed from the title the theme is “digital relationships”. – My real introduction to the internet was Neopets. We got non-dial up internet and you could just be online anytime!

George RR Martin on his blog: Dark Days It used to be fun talking about our favorite books and films, and having spirited debates with fans who saw things different… but somehow in this age of social media, it is no longer enough to say “I did not like book