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 every day, I like his taste in internet.
Kottke.org is 25 years old today
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#22how come i've never heard of this site? I feel out of the loop
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#23These 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 just remembered one in Spanish: Oink! (https://oink.es/), established in 2001.
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#24These 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?
https://3quarksdaily.com/ is another one from way back that is still going strong
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#25how come i've never heard of this site? I feel out of the loop
Are you under 30?
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#27I remember subscribing to kottke.org with Bloglines :P
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#29Never heard of it.
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#30Ah 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.