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Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Re: Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Post by mesh »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #17
hackernewds wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

huh how?

Once upon a time, when there was no social media, but there were (blog)webrolls, Digg, Slashdot, etc. And there were quite a few personal websites. I had one and was happily showing off to my small group of friends while sipping “cutting-chai” in the suburbs of Bombay, strolling with a Girlfriend and taking Macromedia Flash exams on the spot to impress her. There was a Startup, Macromedia, that saw that I was pretty…

Well, now, those images bring back a lot of memories.

I was in a similar boat. My early blog made money for me through affiliate sales for books about Flash, which eventually led to me writing books on Generator / Flash, which led to a job at Macromedia, which led to me reaching out and recognizing people in the community!

Miss blogs and the culture around them so much.

Here are some more images of some of that Macromedia swag: https://flickr.com/photos/mikechambers/albums/72157594191144...

Re: Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Post by panic »

ar9av wrote: post #6

These blogs (kottke.org , memex 1.1) offer daily-ish roundups of links and articles they find interesting, with a short (50-100 words) intro as to why the reader may also be interested. I don't like using email newsletters (my inbox is flooded enough), and long lists of urls is off-putting. Are there any other blogs that do something similar?

It's not exactly daily, but Leah Neukirchen's Trivium (the successor to the original "tumblelog", anarchaia) is a fantastic link-only blog: https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/

Re: Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Post by prmoustache »

TurkishPoptart wrote: post #22

how come i've never heard of this site? I feel out of the loop

That is the moment you realize the internet is huge. That someone could make a living out of a weblog yelling at clouds and you never heard about it despite being online almost every day during the same period.

Re: Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Post by RamblingCTO »

ar9av wrote: post #6

These blogs (kottke.org , memex 1.1) offer daily-ish roundups of links and articles they find interesting, with a short (50-100 words) intro as to why the reader may also be interested. I don't like using email newsletters (my inbox is flooded enough), and long lists of urls is off-putting. Are there any other blogs that do something similar?

I'm trying to solve the following part with https://newsletterify.com. Let me know if you wanna beta test it for free!

> I don't like using email newsletters (my inbox is flooded enough)

Re: Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Post by Brajeshwar »

mesh wrote: post #31
Brajeshwar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once upon a time, when there was no social media, but there were (blog)webrolls, Digg, Slashdot, etc. And there were quite a few personal websites. I had one and was happily showing off to my small group of friends while sipping “cutting-chai” in the suburbs of Bombay, strolling with a Girlfriend and taking Macromedia Flash exams on the spot to impress her. There was a Startup, Macromedia, that saw that I was pretty…

Well, now, those images bring back a lot of memories. I was in a similar boat. My early blog made money for me through affiliate sales for books about Flash, which eventually led to me writing books on Generator / Flash, which led to a job at Macromedia, which led to me reaching out and recognizing people in the community! Miss blogs and the culture around them so much. Here are some more images of some of that Macro…

Dude, you are Mike Chambers. You are one of the person who made one of the biggest impact in my life and career. Your email that fateful day inviting me to be a "Macromedia Champion" (or something like that in 2002-ish) and the eventual "Lego" invite changed my life and career. It was the time I was in between jobs and was helping out everyone everywhere with Flash problems.

Man, you are making me cry. You made me sit and talk with the authors whose books I read to get a job, you made me have dinner with the people who made the software that I worked with.

I regret never getting a picture with you, and sorry for sleeping out on the Halo Game night at "W" that night. First jet-lag experience in my life and learning to adjust.

Edit: I think I'm mixing up the timelines but the gist of story remains. I do not have the email archives prior to 2006, and I lost all emails from brajeshwar.com, and the photos metadata are scrambled after a crash-recovery around 2006-2007.

Re: Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Post by splitbrain »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #30

Ah yes, the age of blogs. Seems like yesterday you'd stumble on interesting blogs by people, and they would link to 20 or so more interesting blogs... And you could subscribe to all of them using RSS. And there were easy tools to subscribe to RSS feeds, and also publish your blog as an RSS feed. It ain't so easy these days.

Shameless plug: There are still lots of personal blogs out there and an easy way to stumble on them is https://indieblog.page/

Re: Kottke.org is 25 years old today

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Post by haunter »

phendrenad2 wrote: post #30

Ah yes, the age of blogs. Seems like yesterday you'd stumble on interesting blogs by people, and they would link to 20 or so more interesting blogs... And you could subscribe to all of them using RSS. And there were easy tools to subscribe to RSS feeds, and also publish your blog as an RSS feed. It ain't so easy these days.

> It ain't so easy these days.

Technically nothing have changed. Plenty of RSS readers much more than ~20 years ago. People changed or rather the internet; they realized they can reach more people than writing to a wall. Most want an audience and you find them on Twitter, Youtube etc. not on your secluded site.

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