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Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by 100011_100001 » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

This is similar to the "managers don't want to talk to female employees".

The solution is simple. Treat all people as people. If you can't, don't talk about them.

Edit: Perhaps projecting my opinions I assumed you were talking about political correctness. However re-reading your post I am not so sure that's what you meant.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by vorpalhex » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

solarengineer wrote: post #6

Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

You could consider adding the sentence to your blog post: “I have written the above based on my present understanding, experience and maturity. As these improve over time, hopefully my opinions would improve too!”

It would be harmful to add such a disclaimer. It would not assuage those who would take offense and it would hurt reader trust.

All writing is from a present understanding.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by blakesterz » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

It would be good to have an OPML file available as you're building this list as well.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by lbriner » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

valdect wrote: post #2

Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.

Unfortunately my code examples are not leet enough to fit in a Tweet.

I dislike medium but I also worry that if too many people are reinventing their blog platform, aren't we risking low quality non-scrapable content?

Is there a blogging platform that you just have to fill in the blanks and get RSS, accessible content with perhaps a very basic gui and code editor for posts?

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by MattPalmer1086 » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

Awesome, I agree, personal blogs are great. I can't help but notice all the blogs tagged "software" in the list (so far). In fact, I think if there was a filter to exclude software blogs, there might be only a few remaining? I missed out on the whole RSS thing when it was popular. My sense was that it solved the problem of knowing when, among a whole bunch of blogs, a site had new content. Perhaps it exists, I want a…

RSS still works fine for me. I use Feedly, but there are others.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by karaterobot » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:41 PM UTC

Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

I've had a blog for about 6 years, with over 300 entries. I don't advertise it, and try to disallow indexing by search engines. It's "anonymous" in the sense that my name isn't on it anywhere, and it doesn't contain personal details. There's no commenting, no integration with social media. It's just for friends, and if they want to talk to me about anything I write there, they know how to reach me.

I felt the same pressure as you, but so far it's been very rewarding: turns out I don't have to get famous to enjoy blogging, which was something I wanted to test when I started it. So far so good.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by kixiQu » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

valdect wrote: post #2

Hi, nowadays blogging is becoming less and less popular and people use twitter as their personal blog. This site is created to provide curated list of fine blogs, provided with their tags,feed links and hackernews page. The site is hosted on github and you can contribute to it if you want.

Is the idea that it should focus on software only?

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by bencollier49 » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

100011_100001 wrote: post #11

Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

This is similar to the "managers don't want to talk to female employees". The solution is simple. Treat all people as people. If you can't, don't talk about them. Edit: Perhaps projecting my opinions I assumed you were talking about political correctness. However re-reading your post I am not so sure that's what you meant.

He's concerned that his views may become controversial in future. Someone with published centre-right views in Cambodia in 1965 would have felt fairly safe. Fifteen years later they would have been dead.

(Ah! I notice you've edited it. It's worth pointing out that 'Political Correctness' was originally a term to describe the 'correct' behaviour of people in totalitarian states.)

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by kixiQu » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:43 PM UTC

vorpalhex wrote: post #12

solarengineer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could consider adding the sentence to your blog post: “I have written the above based on my present understanding, experience and maturity. As these improve over time, hopefully my opinions would improve too!”

It would be harmful to add such a disclaimer. It would not assuage those who would take offense and it would hurt reader trust. All writing is from a present understanding.

If all writing is from a present understanding, how could it hurt reader trust to acknowledge that explicitly?

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by tendstofortytwo » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:44 PM UTC

Ajay-p wrote: post #3

I am afraid to blog. I could write about my career and my hobby, but those do not seem to be interesting for others. My opinion may be interesting, but it is risky because something I write may come back to offend others one day, or get me in trouble. One time ago I considered blogging anonymously about the economy but doing so anonymously felt disingenuous.

I think it's valuable to just blog for your own sake as well. It gets you into a habit of putting your thoughts into words, which in my experience helps my understanding of the topic.

About offending people - think of it as an opportunity to learn. You put your opinions out there, and if someone points out a flaw in your thought process, you try to see where you went wrong. If you were wrong, you get to make another blog post explaining your new understanding, and thanking the person who helped you get there. If you weren't wrong... well, there are trolls on the internet everywhere, you just learn to ignore them.