.: Ye Olde Blogroll
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Art & 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.
- 50 Watts
- A growing archive of weird and wonderful visual ephemera from around the world.
- 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.
History
- History4Today.com
- A professor who not only talks history but also shares his writing and teaching processes
- Going Medieval – Medieval History, Pop Culture, Swearing
- I specialise in late medieval sexuality, apocalyptic thought, propaganda, and the urban experience in general
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
Music & Audio
- Disquiet
- Listening to art. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code. Rewinding the soundscape.
Other Blogrolls
- The Big List of Personal Websites - Not so big but cool hand-compiled list of personal blogs
- Link Lane - Small list of blogs since 2004
- Blog Surf - List of personal blogs, mostly tech/developer type
- Indieweb.xyz - A blog syndication service organized by topic
- Gossip’s Web - Directory of hand built websites
- 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
- Winnie Lim
- A hauntingly beautifully written blog documenting a life struggling with health & existence w/forays into philosophy.
- Mario Villalobos
- Operates under the philosophy that to truly understand life, one must attack it from many different angles.
- 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
- Kicks Condor
- Leeching and linking in the hypertext kingdom
- Derek’s Digital Garden
- A lighthearted, "rough around the edges" blog/digital garden by an Ukrainian blogger
- simply.
- it’s personal. and micro. — simply.
- 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
- Piper Haywood — If lost, please return
- I’m an independent web developer with a lot of interests.
- CJ Chilvers
- A writer and photographer from the Chicago area who writes about creativity, publishing and time management
- Om Malik – On my Om
- Meditations on technology, science, future, life, and photography
- Brain Baking
- A polymath who loves the smell of freshly baked thoughts (and bread) in the morning.
- Colin Devroe - I think a lot about photography, blogging, early stage start-ups, and outdoor activities.
- Daniel Sisson - Thoughts on the future, life, business, and random things
- Manu – I write
- Italian freelance developer and blogger since 2017
- Peter Rukavina’s Weblog
- I write here about topics including technology, design, printing, travel and Prince Edward Island.
- Tracy Durnell – Learning and Thinking in Public
- Eclectic "mind-garden" in blog format sharing her stream of thoughts
- Numeric Citizen Blog
- Writing about Apple, Photography, Privacy and Climate Change.
- Exile Lifestyle
- I spend most of my time learning, making things I hope will be of value, and striving to grow as a person
- inhab.it – lived in places
- About places, their growth from vague names, dots on maps, stars, homes of mysterious figures, and locations in books
- Musings from a Tangled Mind
- Relating with you through the communication of experiences and emotions
- Heed Not The Rolling Wave
- Adam writes about the intersection of politics, culture and technology, with a soft spot for fringe ideas.
Photography
- 35hunter
- Hunting for beauty and balance, camera in hand
- Graham’s Island
- Life on the Big Island of Hawaii in the form of a daily photojournal
- Shutter Open
- I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking...
- charlene winfred – looking and hopefully seeing
- Born in Singapore, spent more than two decades living, working and traveling extensively elsewhere in the world.
- The Online Photographer
- Daily news website for photo enthusiasts, in blog format from a variety of photographers
- Astro Anarchy
- Finnish visual artist and astrophotographer - "Revealing the hidden beauty of our universe is my passion."
- sean bonner dot com
- Author, artist and activist (also writes about NFTs from artist perspective)
- Atlas Minor • James A. Reeves
- Snapshots of melancholy gas stations. Dispatches from the archives. Reverberated soundtracks. Searching for faith in the digital age.
Poets, Writers & Writing
- Discombobulated
- Mum, geek, writer. Software discombobulator. Insect rescuer. Cat box /child den constructor. Experimental desserts a specialty.
- Allison Marie Conway
- I write about Desire. Sex. Longing. Pain. Darkness. All of it.
- The Marginalian – Marginalia on our search for meaning.
- A one-woman labor of love, exploring what it means to live a decent, inspired, substantive life of purpose and gladness since 2006.
- 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.
- Appalachian Ground – A Love Story
- Beautiful photos, writing & poetry about life in the Appalachian mountains
- Ann Within – A deep dive into various lives.
- A collection of essays and short poems laced with advice you probably shouldn’t take seriously.
- The Morning Porch
- Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
- A Working Library
- A working library is a blog about reading & technology by Mandy Brown
- A Cornered Gurl
- I am more than breath & bones . . . I am nectar in waiting.
- HOOT
- A {mini} literary magazine on a postcard - flash fiction, poetry, memoir, non-fiction, book reviews
- 陳琛 (Chen Chen Writes)
Research & Science
- Nintil
- To estimate, compare, distinguish, discuss, and trace to its principal sources everything.
- Centauri Dreams — Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration
- A deep dive on space exploration with an eye toward interstellar possibilities and life.
- Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
- A blog about nuclear secrecy, past and present by a PhD historian of science
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 Cheapskate’s Guide
- Saving $ on computers w/noteworthy coverage of blogging, indieweb, and more
- Jim Nielsen’s Blog
- Where I write at least something rather than nothing
- The New Oil
- Information Security for normal people.
- Chris Hannah
- An app developer with diverse interests, including photography
- 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
- Daring Fireball - A (mostly) Mac column in the form of a blog with occasional snark and dallops of common sense
- Interconnected
- I blog to speculate about the future of technology, design, and society.
- Greg Morris
- Blogger and podcaster with several years experience in technology circles
- Adactio: Journal
- A web developer and author living and working in Brighton, England.
- Benedict Evans
- Stepping back from the noise in tech, I try to work out what's really happening, what matters, and what it might mean.
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
- Halfie
- ....mostly about living on a boat in England
- Road to the Sea
- Full time nomad couple who transitioned from the road to the sea on their journey
- 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
- Luxagraf
- Thoughts on ecology, culture, travel, photography, walking and other ephemera
- 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.
- Andrew Skurka
- I run, hike, write, and guide.
- One Hundred Rabbits
- Exploring the planned failability of modern technology at the bounds of the hyper-connected world.
- Walking Arizona
- Arizona and Utah are big states and there is a lot of room to walk. As I walk I like to think and share insights.