Originally blogs were called weblogs: a log of activity that you wrote to the web. Peter Merholz jokingly split the term into two words to make it an activity: we blog. Ev Williams started to use it as a verb and a noun: to blog. And the rest is history.

hahaha using search engine techniques to map to common creepy websites

About video only: Do you want to serve those types of people?!

I can ask: do you want to do that for people?

What the author posts is now different, but blogging is not dead.

Yes

Each time I made a concerted effort to write and publish more, I started to move further away from what I wanted my blog to be. It has to be about me. It needs to revolve around my thoughts about topics and, more importantly, be about what I get up to.

Press CTRL or CMD + click or press the link. You then have the choice: open it in the same tab or in a new tab.

It’s a massive differentiator to have launched something. To have had an idea, and put it into the world.

I think it’s worth noting that there’s a certain luxury of time that affords side projects that comes wrapped up with privilege. [...] So it can be very small.

So, in a way, blogging [via social media] is more popular than ever. The thing that changed was where people published.

[Ten years ago]

A set of protocols or standards will need to come along to help connect all publishing platforms together. The incredibly useful features we find inside of networks like Twitter will need to find their way out onto the world wide web. This means bringing actions like following or subscribing, mentioning, citing, link previewing, etc. to the independent web and have them be completely separate from any single service.

It is slowly coming with IndieWeb, ActivityPub, and the standards of microformats, syndication feeds, federation, etc...

Toutes les capitales sauf Canberra :/ Maintenant que fais-t-on?

About micro.blog

You really shouldn’t care what people think. It’s the [place of residence on the web] I own and have control of

I’m not tied down by character limits. I don’t have comments and likes bootstrapped to my posts, begging to be utilized. [...] I feel a sense of peace of mind here

I think most people would be better served by subscribing to small b blogging. What you want is something with YOUR personality. Writing and ideas that are addressable (i.e. you can find and link to them easily in the future) and archived (i.e. you have a list of things you’ve written all in one place rather than spread across publications and URLs) and memorable (i.e. has your own design, logo or style).

A blog post is not the same as an essay or article. It’s simply an update to the log of information you’re writing on your website. That stream of posts, together, makes up your blog. So a post can be as short or as long as you like It’s your voice, so they can also be as formal or informal as you like. I use a pretty informal voice in my blogging because that’s what comes naturally to me.

An argument for GitHub against self-hosted source code forgery.

The main reason is I’m kind of tired of the amount of spam bots that keep signing up to my Gitea.

Wizard programmers prefer up-front design. They apply reason and logic to divide and conquer a large problem, they rely on building blocks like design patterns and algorithms. Wizards rely on explicit knowledge.

D&D sorcerers have an innate connection to the magic. They wield tremendous forces that they sometimes don’t quite understand, it’s wild and unpredictable. It’s not something they’ve learned to do, but something they’ve discovered in themselves, a talent.

I like the comparison because it seems right.

A collection of thoughts about blogs and RSS

There are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own.

What are the characteristics of a blog?

• content is published in the form of posts, often in reverse chronological order
• content is posted on a website, online, with hypertext capabilities
• they are self-published, regardless of hosting platform, in that there is no gatekeeper authorizing publication

Blog posts do not have to be read in the order they were originally published.

Also as a distinct format, they are worthy of consideration, because the medium a message is served through is as important as the message itself.

Blogs are broad and can be defined by a lot of different examples. Technology enables it but does not solely define blogness. There are distinctions though

• composed of addressable, distinct posts
• order-irrelevant and non-hierarchical
• impermanent and ever-evolving
• self and external-referencing
• it is published online to an unknown audience
• multiple types of content (image, video, text, sound, ...)

In contrast, newsletters miss the searchability. They are not addressable and lack of public publishing. The publisher can know the audience.
Social media serves a mixed feed with posts by other authors. The algorithm incentivizes the work creator's post. The platforms reinforce a strong bias to the present.

It seems "blogs argument themselves". They are "contemplation on a particular theme in depth".

What is the future of the blog medium? It's still a new medium and it depends on how we want it to mature in the next 20 years.