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Personal blogging
192 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 183 with a note, 130 in a Weekly Thing.
- Most from
- om.co 5, manton.org 4, scripting.com 4, jvns.ca 3, macdrifter.com 3
2026
2025
- Writer Coin - Next Day Thoughts
- Micro.blog offers an indie alternative to YouTube with its ‘Studio’ video hosting plan
- Taking Blogging Seriously
- Say Your Writing
- Wherein I Go to Yoga (for the first time)
- Backfill your blog
- Ye Olde Blogroll - Because blogs are the soul of the web
- Bijan on the blog again
- Reflections on 25 years of Interconnected
- The open web as gift economy (Part 4)
- Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog
- The Old Family Photos Project: Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep
- The Bear Manifesto
- People & Blogs: Annie Mueller
- You should get a blog
2024
- The Current State of This Blog’s Syndication - Justin's Linklog
- Blogroll
- Please publish and share more - Jeff Triplett's Micro.blog
- Pure Blogger
- How To Write More Blog Posts | Loris Cro's Blog
- Scripting News at 30
- Jonas Hietala: Why I still blog after 15 years
- Why do I blog?
- One a Month Club
- How to write "About the Author"
- Manton Reece - Audio narration in Micro.blog
- We Are the Curators of the Web
- What makes a great technical blog
- 5 ways to actually use the notes you take
- It's just a blog
- On POSSE
- Serving my blog posts as Linux manual pages
- TinyLetter: looking back on the humblest newsletter platform
- Why Tapestry?
- On Writing on Web
- How my link blog works · ./jm
2023
- I am a poem I am not software
- Writing Documentation for Your House
- Manifesto for posting online in 2023
- “One of the world’s oldest continually publishing blogs” – Ideapad
- This Blog is 20 Years Old Today
- What happened to blogging for the hell of it? | wiwi blog
- Introducing the New Kottke.org Comments
- For You
- A Good Enough Guestbook
- The internet used to be fun
- Why I Blog? - Pablo Morales
- Some blogging myths
- the three paths of micro.blog – The Homebound Symphony
- Goodbye, Dooce
- I'm a Blogger
- Why I Blog
- Blog posting frequencies (ooh.directory)
- Printing daily.baty.net
- Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It
- Why Write?
- Curation — The C Word
- How To Build A Blog Without Social Media
- The Technium: 1,000 True Fans
- Plan to write. Write to learn.
- What is a Journal? Why You Should Start One Today
- Don’t build a personal brand, build a reputation
- Is “stream” as a design paradigm over?
- Matt Yglesias and the secret of blogging - by Max Read
- 10 Blogging Pioneers: Influential, But Not Always Famous
2022
2021
- The Macro of Micro.blog // pimoore.ca
- Types of Blogs
- Blog about what you've struggled with
- The Memex Method. When your commonplace book is a public… by Cory Doctorow
- My Secret Sauce of Blogging
- Writing and Publishing
- The Fear of Putting Our Work Out There
- HEY World makes what’s old new again with blogging.
- Why I'm Leaning Obsidian
- Self-publishing Staff Engineer.
- The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML – Terence Eden’s Blog
- Journal Without Journaling (Using Day One)
- Robin Rendle › Newsletters
2020
- 25 Blogs Guaranteed to Make You Smarter
- The Purpose Of Writing
- Blogging vs. blog setups
- Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet
- Literal
- The Content Value Hierarchy (CVH)
- Why you should write
- Small tech
- Jean MacDonald - A Day In The Life of Our Online Community: A Global Photography Challenge
- 15 years of blogging (and 3 reasons I keep going)
- The True Value of Link Posts
- The Return of the 90s Web | Max Böck
- RSS Everywhere, Blogging as Social Media, and More
- If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
- Doc Searls Weblog · Will our digital lives leave a fossil record?
- Meta Blog —Tim Bray
- Announcing Micro.blog for teams
- Wondering What to Write? There’s a Prompt For That.
- A Text Renaissance
- Manton Reece - Replies hosted at your own blog
- This Is True History: One of the Internet’s Oldest Newsletters
- Make blogging beautiful — Anchor CMS
2019
- 114 :: Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog
- A love letter to my website - DESK Magazine
- Khoi Vinh on How His Blog Amplified His Work and Career
- Focused, beautiful & free blogging – Proseful
- Why I Replaced Disqus and You Should Too
- The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
- Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters
- Notepin - Extremely simple blogging
- Links & Recommendations
2018
- Leah Cunningham
- On Blogs in the Social Media Age - Study Hacks
- @bfeld v53.0
- Why sell zines?
- What We Learned from Writing 7,000 Artist Bios
- Newsletters Are Immortal – Dave Pell
- Add an "On This Day" feature to a Micro.blog website
- A pre-history of weeknotes, plus why I write them and perhaps why you should too (Week 16)
- How to read
- What’s In My Day One (2018 Edition)
- Micro.blog: Providing Control Of Your Online Life
- Going Back To Blogging
- Wavelength for Micro.blog
- Back to the Blog
- Small b blogging
- Last blog standing, “last guy dancing”: How Jason Kottke is thinking about kottke.org at 20
- inessential: Why Micro.blog is Not Another App.net
- افكار و احلام » Two weeks with Micro.blog
2017
- How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly ~ Stephen Downes
- 10 years of professional blogging
- Why you (yes, you) need to be a better writer (and how to get started)
- Should you blog on Facebook or the web? —Scripting News
- Intro to Micro.blog
- Integrating Micro.blog
- If You Like Indie Blogs then Share Them
- Indie Microblogging: owning your short-form writing by Manton Reece
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
- Why a Day of Tumblr Down Time Matters to the Entire Web & World
- The Rhone Gift Guide 2010
- A feature request for blogging tool vendors
- Give Me Something To Read Best of 2010
- Storyist How to Get Ready for NaNoWriMo
- 12 Essential News Media Tumblrs You Should Follow
- Top 9 Things I Want In a Blog Engine
- People hosting their own servers