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Personal Blogs VS Corporate Web
Personal blogs are a little bit like your local coffee, shop or restaurant on the corner of the street you live on: A unique and intimate place, that enriches your daily life. In contrast, social media and mainstream news are like Starbucks or McDonald's: A uniform, bland experience operated by a giant corporation, that is ultimately bad for your health and bad for your local community - enriching greedy, far away shareholders. Choose your (online) interactions and habits wisely.
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A special shout-out to the new regular visitors of this blog from Brazil 🇧🇷, China 🇨🇳, Iran 🇮🇷, India 🇮🇳, Japan 🇯🇵, South Africa 🇿🇦, Russia 🇷🇺, Sweden 🇸🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, UK 🇬🇧 and the US 🇺🇸. I'm delighted and honored that so many people from around the world find reading this humble blog worthwhile! Don't be a stranger and reach out if you have any requests, ideas or simply want to chat.
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I'm back after taking a break from this blog for a week, which was wonderfully refreshing.
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samim.io update
For the first time in years, I've updated the server behind this site to a more powerful one. If you are having any issues, please let me know. Starting soon, I'll try sending out a newsletter regularly and maintain a public chat room for this site actively. Dear readers, don't be a stranger and engage with the indie web - the corporate social surveillance grid is not healthy for anyone.
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The Second Golden Age of Blogging (otherlife)
Blogging was then diffused into social media, but now social media is so tribal and algo-regulated that anybody with a real message today needs their own property. At the same time, professional institutions are increasingly suffocated by older, rent-seeking incumbents and politically-correct upstarts using moralism as a career strategy. In such a context, blogging — if it is intelligent, courageous, and consistent — is currently one of the most reliable methods for intellectually sophisticated individuals to accrue social and cultural capital outside of institutions. (Youtube for the videographic, Instagram for the photographic, podcasting for the loquacious, but writing and therefore blogging for the most intellectually sophisticated.
If the First Golden Age of Blogging saw the blog as a public amplifier of creative, intellectual talent ensconced in professional careers, today we are living through a Second Golden Age of Blogging, where the blog is now a vehicle for starting and exiting careers.
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If You Like RSS, You'll Love Fraidycat
Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. I use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube or TiddlyWiki. There is no news feed. Rather than showing you a massive inbox of new posts to sort through, you see a list of recently active individuals. No one can noisily take over this page, since every follow has a summary that takes up a mere two lines.
#Comment: I absolutely love this! Fantastic approach to the evolution of RSS and Content Feeds.
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Samim.io has been updated, with numerous fixes and improvement. Blogging with a self-made tool comes with many technical pain-points - but it is certainly immensely satisfying.
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It's Time For an RSS Revival:
https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/ #IndieWeb -
The internet that took over the Internet: https://petermolnar.net/internet-emotional-core/
We used to have homepages. Homes on the Internet. Not profiles, no; profile is something the authorities make about you in dossier.
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The Missing Building Blocks of the Web - by @anildash: #IndieWeb
https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc
