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how come i've never heard of this site? I feel out of the loop
It's one of the early waves of blogs, popular on the early internet. I don't think it was really "relevant"/popular in the last 5-10 years, but I might be wrong.
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.
> Ah yes, the age of blogs. > could subscribe to all of them using RSS Maybe bit nitpicky but kottke.org predates blogs, and predates RSS. It's "pre age of blogs".
Hey, this is so nice. I used to be a regular on your website. I fondly remember a time when you included my website in one of your article (blog post) and I had that traffic spike. I mean, my simple personal website being linked from the likes of Kottke, 9rules, Adobe, etc were a big-big thing for me. :-) Thank you for keeping the site alive.
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.
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"good moderation" is hard and exhausting. it may be possible for your small blog with little traffic, but for something like kottke.org?
I've personally been a moderator for communities with up to ~2 million users, where the main point of the biggest community was discussions around subjects that are generally taboo in society, so it attracts a lot of low-effort posts for sure. On average, the community had at least ~50K members online at any given time, if there is some big news that number increased a lot. And we managed to moderate it well. Granted…
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It's one of the early waves of blogs, popular on the early internet. I don't think it was really "relevant"/popular in the last 5-10 years, but I might be wrong.
> popular on the early internet Popular on the early(ish) web. The equivalent for the internet would be .plan files, perhaps?
I'm not even done with it but I can't recommend enough Kottke getting interviewed by John Gruber on The Talk Show this week. It's a fun trip down memory lane hearing them talk about the beginning of the web as we know it. No one knew what a blog was yet and they were there figuring out what the web was for in the time before mega corps moved in. Kicked up a lot of nostalgia in me. I still read Kottke.org pretty much…
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Funny you say that, because the author of kottke isn't.
What does that have to do with not knowing about this site?
The author's age is related to how long Kokkte has existed as a blog, which is longer than those who are 30 today have been browsing the web. From the actual article, "I’ve been writing kottke.org for 25 years". This means that people who are over 30 today were the initial boosters for kottke. Kokkte is a person's blogsite, not something targeted to people under 30.
As the article says, kokkte.org is older than google. The author didn't start blogging when he was 5.
There is also a pertinent point on wikipedia about Jason Kokkte. "In 2005 Kottke was able to quit his day job to focus on blogging full-time." [1] He wasn't supported by people who were at most 12 years old.
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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…