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Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by [deleted] »

elefanten wrote: post #4
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 sympathize with all you say, I've been through all that myself. But why would blogging anonymously be disingenuous? Plenty of writers have opted for anonymity. If the ideas spur thought or discussion, they're still valuable.

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Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by Rerarom »

MattPalmer1086 wrote: post #15
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.

Seconded, I use Feedly daily

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by fovc »

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…

What you want is RSS, but you don't need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there's an 'add content' button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the 'reader mode' content without navigating to the site directly.

[Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy user]

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by CarelessExpert »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #35
cubano wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds pretty close to RSS to me...what do you see as the difference between what you envision and existing RSS?

I honestly don't understand, haven't learned RSS.

Honestly, it's not that complicated. The site publishes a feed, and you can use any RSS reader to consume that feed. Some readers are out in the cloud, others are self-hosted as services, yet others are client-side applications.

In general, most blogs and major news sources, along with aggregators like Reddit and Hacker News, publish RSS feeds. It's basically the way I consume content on the web.

If you want to give it a try I'd recommend Feedly.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by throw_nbvc1234 »

ghaff wrote: post #40
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.

Absolutely nothing wrong with anonymous/pseudonymous blogs/Twitter/etc. When your blog is part of your in real life public presence, you obviously don't want to do that. And I started blogging before many of today's concerns became as big a deal. But, if I were starting a blog today that was divorced from my professional identity, I'd seriously consider not connecting it to real life me--especially if I regularly blo…

Which is a dark side of "cancel culture". When people (or media entities) decide to connect the dots then reveal the identity to whatever twitter mob is relevant.

Hopefully this doesn't become a bigger trend. As you said, the government can connect the dots if they need/want to. There's no need to vigilantes to do it on their behalf.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by yetanother-1 »

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…

Inoreader is the closest to the Google Reader and the free account is really useful.

I like the app as well and it can scrap websites that don't even provide RSS feeds, given that they are scrabbable of course.

Re: Curated list of personal blogs

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Post by tailspin2019 »

fovc wrote: post #43
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…

What you want is RSS, but you don't need to learn how it works at all. Go to feedly.com and create a (free) account. Add sites you want to follow (there's an 'add content' button which lets you search by URL). Done. Feedly will give you a home page with titles and blurbs, and for many sites you can even get the 'reader mode' content without navigating to the site directly. [Not affiliated with feedly, just a happy us…

I think it’s similar to Feedly but I’m a fan of feedbin.com

And for an iOS/Mac client I _highly_ recommend “Reeder”. [0]

Have used both for years now.

[0] https://reederapp.com

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