Where have all the websites gone?

Liked Where have all the websites gone? by Jason Velazquez (fromjason.xyz)

So when we wonder where all the websites have gone, know it’s the curators we’re nostalgic for because the curators showed us the best the web had to offer once upon a time. And the curators— the tenders, aggregators, collectors, and connectors— can bring us back to something better. Because it’s still out there, we just have to find it.

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Open a Linktree account or whatever. And instead of adding your other social media accounts, add three links to your favorite blog posts. Or, add links to a few artists with their own sites. Or your favorite aggregator sites. It doesn’t matter what you include, so long as we make portals to other digital green spaces that exist outside of Instagram.

blogrolls or sharing?

Liked Are We Rolling? (Bix Dot Blog)

Just the mere thought of trying to assemble a list of my recommended blogs gives me mild anxiety not worth the confronting. This is why—and I’ve mentioned this before, of course—my solution simply is to present you with an updating list of the actual blog posts by other people that I’ve actually read. This list appears at the bottom of my front page, above a separate list of places to find more blogs.

It was a really big effort to bring all my RSS subscriptions together into my blogroll, and now I’m reading this post and realizing that sharing posts I liked, with context, is more useful anyway… oops. Guess I’m doing both 🙂