If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

Post by derekzhouzhen » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

lonk11 wrote: post #290

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> The strength of your connections to other feeds and users represents how useful their content recommendations have been to you in the past and they could be used as a measure of how likely their future recommendations will be worth your time (ie, trust that they won't waste your time). Your intention is noble, but this is still based on network effects and a positive feedback loop. I doubt you can beat the social m…

True, the network effects of the traditional social media are strong. LinkLonk needs a critical mass of users for network effects to kick in. To make it worthwhile for the users before the project reaches that point, I am trying to make LinkLonk a better tool that helps you keep track of the content you liked (kind of a bookmarking service) and helps you follow RSS feeds in (kind of a feed reader). If you have other…

Post by diskzero » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 9:18 PM UTC

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OPML could be part of a solution for authoring blogs that then can publish using RSS. It is an interchange format for outline with attributed text.

Back in the old Web 2.0 days we used OPML files to publish and exchange blog rolls, Dave Winer even had a site you could log into and share, in a sort of social-networking way, your blog/RSS subscriptions via OPML.

Post by dflock » Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 11:36 PM UTC

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I've built a service that lets you create a micro-blog from a paper journal: https://paperwebsite.com/ It's given me great joy just publishing my unfiltered thoughts on the internet straight from my pen, which sounds similar to the "unfocused blogs" the author was talking about. Perhaps in this highly edited, Instagram world we now live in - the raw, unedited nature of a blog is a bit more scary. I still love them th…

I vote that we add our blogs / other good blogs we have come across as children on this comment. I'll start, here's mine: - https://slightknack.dev/blog Here are some others: - https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com - https://www.gwern.net/index - https://danluu.com - https://tonsky.me/ - https://lemire.me/blog/ - https://waitbutwhy.com/ - https://www.kalzumeus.com/archive/ - https://blog.codinghorror.com/

Post by derekzhouzhen » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 3:04 AM UTC

lonk11 wrote: post #316

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> If you have other ideas of how to make it more useful before we have enough users - let me know. I have an idea; maybe you can enable people to publish a list of links that are curated by themselves, in the form of a RSS feed. This way your user can have a sense of ownership.

Thanks for the idea! LinkLonk already has a concept of a "list of links" - collections. When you upvote a link you put it into one (or more) of your collections. What you are suggesting is similar to another idea I had ( https://linklonk.com/item/9146000221282140160 ): "An option to generate a publicly visible url for any of your collections. This could help you share your collection of liked items with other people.…

Post by pixelgeek » Wed, Sep 22, 2021, 3:31 PM UTC

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pixelgeek wrote: post #111

Interesting that there has been no comment on the impact of social media on blogging. I had a blog to chronicle my gaming hobby for over a decade and I gave it up recently because the audience for that type of blog has disappeared. Most of the people that would read non-technical blogs have changed their browsing habits to mostly consume content on Facebook. Most commercial content has moved to social media. Forums h…

I would only note that blogs originally didn't have an "audience" outside of the (then small) blogging community. The goal wasn't to amass followers or become an influencer, but just to share things you discovered and write about them in an interesting way, amongst a very small (certainly by modern web metrics) group of appreciative and like-minded people.