.: Ye Olde Blogroll
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Artists
- Austin Kleon
- Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s the bestselling author of Steal Like An Artist and other books.
- Gwenn Seemel
- Humanist artist who makes art where you want to know the people who love it and buy it. Uncopyright advocate.
- John P. Weiss Fine Art
- Police Captain turned Artist who paints, draws cartoons, and shoots photography
- David Revoy
- Artist, Instructor, using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009
Food/drink
- James’ Coffee Blog
- I share my thoughts on all things coffee and I interview people who work in coffee, with a particular emphasis on the Scottish coffee industry.
Homesteading
- Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness
- Practical advice for off-gridders, homesteaders, preppers. 40 years off-grid homesteading experience.
- Bedlam Farm Journal
- Bedlam Farm in New England is where I live, write and tend to my animals
Other Blogrolls
- The Big List of Personal Websites - Not so big but cool hand-compiled list of personal blogs
- Blog Surf - List of personal blogs, mostly tech/developer type
- Link Lane - Small list of blogs since 2004
- Gossip’s Web - Directory of hand built websites
- Indieweb.xyz - A blog syndication service organized by topic
- How to surf the web - Retro-guide on how to surf the web the original way
- i.webthings hub
- Massive curated link "hub" and blog. Hard to categorize but intriguing.
- Stumbled - Knock off of the old Stumble Upon site that sends you to random cool sites around the web
- Nightfall City - Nightfall is a virtual city that lets you meet and interact with others through your Gemini or web feed.
Personal
- Chris Aldrich
- A digital commonplace book on IndieWeb, mathematics, engineering, biology, research, education, & more
- beetleypete
- The musings of a Londoner, now living in Norfolk
- Jonathan Wrote This
- Every day adventures, thoughts, hopes, dreams, frustrations and annoyances of a software developer
- kottke.org
- Home of one of the oldest blogs on the internet since 1998
- The Idea-smithy: Adventures of a Paper Plane Pilot
- I write about topics as diverse as cityscapes, art, relationships, style, pop culture, gender stereotypes and writing
- Winnie Lim
- A hauntingly beautifully written blog documenting a life struggling with health & existence w/forays into philosophy.
- Derek’s Digital Garden
- A lighthearted, "rough around the edges" blog/digital garden by an Ukrainian blogger
- Piper Haywood — If lost, please return
- I’m an independent web developer with a lot of interests.
- Kicks Condor
- Leeching and linking in the hypertext kingdom
- Mario Villalobos
- Operates under the philosophy that to truly understand life, one must attack it from many different angles.
- Om Malik – On my Om
- Meditations on technology, science, future, life, and photography
- CJ Chilvers
- A writer and photographer from the Chicago area who writes about creativity, publishing and time management
- Colin Devroe - I think a lot about photography, blogging, early stage start-ups, and outdoor activities.
- simply.
- it’s personal. and micro. — simply.
- Numeric Citizen Blog
- Writing about Apple, Photography, Privacy and Climate Change.
- Manu – I write
- Italian freelance developer and blogger since 2017
- Exile Lifestyle
- I spend most of my time learning, making things I hope will be of value, and striving to grow as a person
- Daniel Sisson
- Thoughts on the future, life, business, and random things - inhab.it – lived in places
- About places, their growth from vague names, dots on maps, stars, homes of mysterious figures, and locations in books
- Tracy Durnell – Learning and Thinking in Public
- Eclectic "mind-garden" in blog format sharing her stream of thoughts
Photography
- The Online Photographer
- Daily news website for photo enthusiasts, in blog format from a variety of photographers
- 35hunter
- Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
- Shutter Open
- I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking...
- charlene winfred
- looking and hopefully seeing
Research
- History4Today.com
- A professor who not only talks history but also shares his writing and teaching processes
- Nintil
- To estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything.
Search Engines(focusing exclusively on blogs & personal sites)
- Search My Site - Open source search engine for personal and independent websites
- Wiby - Old school search engine in the vein of the web of old
Technology
- Kev Quirk
- Part time geek, full time idiot.
- The New Oil
- Information Security for normal people.
- The Cheapskate’s Guide
- Saving $ on computers w/noteworthy coverage of blogging, indieweb, and more
- Ugly Duck
- Thoughts on design patterns, CSS hacks/demos, custom SBC builds, linux distros, video game & more
- Flameeyes’s Weblog
- Open Source Developer, Systems Mechanic, Conference Wannabe.
- Baldur Bjarnason
- I write about web dev, interactive media, digital publishing, and product development from Hveragerði, Iceland
- Chris Hannah
- An app developer with diverse interests, including photography
- Greg Morris
- Blogger and podcaster with several years experience in technology circles
- Daring Fireball - A (mostly) Mac column in the form of a blog with occasional snark and dallops of common sense
- Adactio: Journal
- A web developer and author living and working in Brighton, England.
- Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Where I write at least something rather than nothing
Tools & Apps(various software tools for reading blogs ‘n such)
- Fraidycat
- Follow friends, blogs, Twitter, Youtube, etc. all from one app
- Blogroll Block – WordPress plugin - Show off your blogroll with the WordPress Block editing experience
Travels
- Along the Ray
- A wandering alien from a different plane roaming the universe in a tiny camper
- Rolling Steel Tent
- A regular Joe nomading full time in his van w/wry sense of humor and zany ancedotes
- Sinclair Trails - Travels around the country from living full time in a new RV
- Halfie
- ....mostly about living on a boat in England
- Luxagraf
- Thoughts on ecology, culture, travel, photography, walking and other ephemera
- Road to the Sea
- Full time nomad couple who transitioned from the road to the sea on their journey
- Andrew Skurka
- I run, hike, write, and guide.
- Notes from the Road
- By road, by kayak, by seaplane and most of all on foot, I tackle the themes of city and country in the modern world.
Writers
- Discombobulated
- Mum, geek, writer. Software discombobulator. Insect rescuer. Cat box /child den constructor. Experimental desserts a specialty.
- Random Notes
- An occasionally-updated collection of thoughts and notes that come from the mind and keyboard of writer and essayist Scott Nesbitt
- Whatever
- Raw thoughts from a writer (and his daughter now and then) since 1998. Also an award winning sci-fi author.