The Pastry Box Project | 2 January 2013, baked by Chris Coyier
I heartily concur with Chris’s sentiment:
I wish everyone in the world would blog.
I heartily concur with Chris’s sentiment:
I wish everyone in the world would blog.
Amen, Scott, A-MEN:
You are not blogging enough. You are pouring your words into increasingly closed and often walled gardens. You are giving control - and sometimes ownership - of your content to social media companies that will SURELY fail.
PPK has switched off comments for much the same reason that I hardly ever have comments on adactio.com: our sites are places for us to broadcast rather than have a conversation.
An excellent little service: give it your Last.fm username and it finds music blogs you’ll probably like. I’ve found a treasure trove of Huffduffer sources through this.
What he said. "The wonderful thing about the web is that anyone can contribute to it. If you have something to say, there are plenty of places to say it. But your right to post to someone else’s site rests with that someone else."
A self-documenting explanation of why John Gruber doesn't have comments on his site.
I think that reports of the death of the blog have been greatly exaggerated but I agree with just about everything written here.
A great video reportage of this year's bloggies featuring a bit of a mandolin performance by yours truly.
The homepage of the local Brighton New Media mailing list has had a facelift. It's now a very nifty aggregator of Brighton geek content.
This transcription of John Gruber's justification for not having comments makes for superb reading. This is what blogging is really about.
Not if John keeps writing posts as good as this is, it's not.
The Associated Press feels that blogs are good enough to steal from, but not good enough to credit.
Someone else who doesn't have comments enabled on his site explains his reasons.
Nominations for the 2006 bloggies are open.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee has a blog.
Web Ring 2.0
The Beeb is blogging on TypePad.
An interview with Tim Berners-Lee. He likes blogs.
Tom Coates, Heather Armstrong and others weigh in with their thoughts. Tom has a sexy radio voice.
This is the plain vanilla look.
You can subscribe to the RSS feed of links.