Month: September 2019

As an act of seeding the open web, I created a blogroll of friends with blogs. Blogrolls are good for all blogs. Interconnectedness makes every blog more valuable.

It wasn’t easy to find living blogs. I had to web stalk a bunch of people. I went through my Feedly subscriptions to find real people. I also combed my Twitter follows.

The blogroll will only be useful on-site at some.gonze.com, and not in RSS. For the sake of inclusion in RSS (just once), here is the list:

• Andrew Sempere
• Andy Weissman
• Ben Werdmüller
• Brett Singer
• Brian Dear
• Dan Lyke
• David Galbraith
• Ethan Hein
• Gurdonark
• Jon Udell
• M Donaldson
• Marc Weidenbaum
• Mark Baker
• Michael Good
• Mike Linksvayer
• Ms Jen
• Paul Morriss
• Richard MacManus
• Scott Aaronson

(Vice) Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.

Facebook isn’t really all that much better or more convenient than having your own website, or sending emails or chats. But for some reason, Facebook (and Instagram) are where we post now.

I don’t think personal websites are for the same purpose. Personal sites like this blog will never be the best place to distribute your thoughts to the biggest readership possible.

A personal site is a Moleskine, not a book.

 

A quiet sad playlist for the last day before Fall: Tombeau Boy (Spotify)