Bookmarks tagged "culture"
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It’s just a website
The humble website :)
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How to Fix the Internet
Not everything is fine on the Internet, but there's an opportunity, and it starts with choosing what you pay attention to yourself.
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Welcome to the web we lost
Sacha Judd tracing the good internet through X-Files fandom and webrings, and it's still out there in the corners.
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Dirty Little Zine — Free 8-Page Printable Zine Maker
Super cool little tool that will help you create simple 8-page zines
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Kevin Boone: Why Idon’t really care if web content is AI-generated
Kevin Boone talks about how scepticism should apply to everything online, not just the AI-generated stuff. Trust the source you know, not the medium. It feels like people forget how crap search results have been since 2008 with the rise of "SEO Spam". Humans have been shit long before AI.
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We need a physical digital music experience
Olly's model already exists in the audiobook world. Libro.fm sends a slice of my audiobook purchases to my local (physical) bookstore.
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The Music Discovery Problem
Music discovery takes intentional effort once the algorithm's gone, and that's fine. I should write up and document my discovery process.
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Netizen
Contributing to the internet for the good of it, not for profit. Now I'm wondering what my netizen contributions will be...
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How to Hate AI
There's a lot of AI hate going around these days, and Steve's take is where I think it should actually be aimed. AI is out of the bag. It's happening. Rather than directing hate at people who are curious, learning, and already using the tools, we could focus that energy on learning, understanding, and educating on the best and safest ways to use them.
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The Joys of a Small Social Feed
How deliberately following a small number people on Mastodon leads to a more peaceful experience. Has me contemplating my own following count.
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Your Ai Hate Is Showing - Matt's Blog
Blanket AI-hate misses the target. The problem is the corporations weaponising it, not the tools.
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My Quest to be the Scrobble King
Reaching back to scrobbling to fix what streaming broke about music discovery.
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Endgame for the Open Web - Anil Dash
Anil Dash wonders if 2026 is the last year we have a chance to put a stop on the dismantling of the open web.
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Building the Good Web · brennan.day
makes the case that building for users instead of against them is what separates the good web from everything else.
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You Are The Driver (The AI Is Just Typing)
Keith argues AI coding tools are only useful once you already know what you're doing — they automate typing, not thinking.
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I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand
Omprakash finds that letting AI write his code kills the satisfaction that made programming worth doing.
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Scroll trīgintā ūnus
Shellsharks shares the latest edition of scrolls, posting online without overthinking
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Phoenix's Web Corner! - The Rise of Sanityware
Shubham talks about where they stand with the web in 2026, writing about independence, ownership, and what he wants his site to be moving forward.
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The Death of Curating, the Rise of Curation - Stephanie Stimac's Blog
Reflections on how we’ve lost the habit of curating what we read and share, and why intentional curation made the web feel more personal. I hope my bookmarks help make the web feel more personal :)
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Why I Don't Think AI is the Devil
Lou pushes back on the idea that AI is inherently evil. I agree that it’s mostly about how it’s used.
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In The Beginning There Was Slop
Reflections on the flood of AI generated “slop”. Is it the AI or the Humans that create the slop?
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Some Thoughts on the Open Web
Reflections on what the open web actually means today
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I Wish People Were More Public
Borretti wants you to be more public online, share more things that you enjoy
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Experiences with social medias
Zhongvie reflects on writing and publishing on a personal site, focusing on keeping things simple and resisting the pressure to optimise or perform for platforms.
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Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
Afranca reflects on why 90s movies feel more alive than modern Netflix releases, pointing to risk, texture, and personality being smoothed out by today’s streaming model.
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You should start a blog today
Hamatti encourages people to start a blog now, arguing that waiting for the perfect setup only gets in the way of actually writing.
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Looking beyond collective blogging • V.H. Belvadi
V.H. Belvadi writes about blogging as a shared practice, where writing alongside others creates momentum, connection, and a sense of community.
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Readers, writers and blogging ethics
This Day’s Portion on writing plainly and honestly online, even if it makes people uncomfortable, instead of softening ideas to please imagined audiences.
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How and Why Do I Blog?
MKUltra.Monster reflects on how “how to blog” advice often overcomplicates things, arguing that blogging works best when you just start writing and figure it out as you go.
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The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to 'Take Off' - Susam Pal
The IndieWeb doesn’t need mass adoption to succeed, it’s value lies in serving the people who actively choose it.
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Static sites killed the blog comment star, but maybe old tech and a smaller web can resurrect them
This Day’s Portion argues that the move to static sites didn’t just simplify publishing, but quietly stripped away comment sections and the everyday conversations that once lived on personal blogs.
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An Island in the Net in 2030? - Island in the Net
Island in the Net shares their thoughts on what the IndieWeb could look like in 2030, focusing on sustainability, human connection, and keeping personal sites relevant as the web continues to shift.
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Drinking The Largest Beer At The Airport Makes Everything Better
I never say no to an airport beer - no matter the cost
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Three Predictions For The Web
Caffeine and Lasers shares three predictions about the future of the web as part of this month’s IndieWeb Carnival.
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IndieWeb Carnival December 2025 – The IndieWeb in 2030 – The Frugal Blog
The Frugal Gamer shares their thoughts on the future of the IndieWeb as part of this month’s IndieWeb Carnival
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Delete Spotify? Sure, But Don't Just Replace it With Another Subscription | Stephanie Vee
Steph Vee says if you ditch Spotify, don’t just swap it for another subscription. Instead rethink how you engage with music and entertainment instead of trading one walled garden for another.
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One moment, please...
The History of the Web looks at how comment sections changed over time, from lively, hosted discussions to disappearing or outsourced feeds under social platforms.
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How to Protect Your Privacy from ChatGPT and Other Chatbots
Mozilla explains how to protect your privacy when using ChatGPT and other AI tools, focusing on data control, account settings, and reducing what these systems can collect about you.
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Small Web, Big Voice
Afranca writes about how the small web still carries real weight, showing that personal sites and hand-built spaces can have a bigger impact than their size suggests.
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Feeds and algorithms have freed us from personal websites
Disassociated pushes back on the idea that platform feeds are “good enough,” arguing that treating Medium profiles as websites misses the point, and that personal sites still matter because they give you control rather than renting space inside someone else’s algorithm.
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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
Disassociated writes about the return of personal blogs and why niche blogs might be the next wave as people move away from algorithmic platforms.
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Early web memories - roundup post
Winther rounds up early web memories from the recent Bear Blog Carnival - gutted I missed this as it was happening!
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I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash
Anil Dash questions how we should react to Firefox adding AI features. He suggests die-hard fans need to look past the knee-jerk outrage and ask whether Firefox is actually trying to offer a safer, more privacy-minded version of tools their non-technical friends are already using.
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash
Anil Dash argues that Atlas isn’t just an unusual browser but an anti-web tool that strips context from sites and traps users in a closed, distorted version of the internet.
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Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On
Brian Schrader reflects on maintaining his personal music library over a decade and why owning your collection still matters.
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Who's a blog for?
obb thinks through who a blog is really for and why writing for yourself remains the most sustainable approach.
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My first months in cyberspace
Phil Gyford remembers the excitement and optimism of being online in 1995.
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Contacting the small web
Bojidar reflects on finding real connection through the small web.
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Visitor stats and the point of blogging
Underlap writes about blogging for connection instead of traffic.
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Adactio: Journal—Responses
Jeremy Keith finds joy in replies written on someone’s own website.
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the internet's too fast
Has the pace of the internet become so fast that it’s overwhelming?
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Publishing personal content online while hiding yourself is a flawed but rational response to a broken internet
This Day’s Portion wrestles with the tension between privacy and openness online.
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Blogging psuedo-anonymously
Mattyblog writes about blogging under a pseudonym and the freedom it offers.
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Understanding, not slop, is what’s interesting about LLMs - blakewatson.com
Blake Watson takes a look at LLMs and where the real value isn’t in the flood of AI generated content, but in understanding how they work to simplify human-computer interaction
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee explains why he released the Web into the public domain. and why we must reclaim it from exploitative platforms and re-centre individual control.
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bstn - RSS manifesto
BSTN argues for a return to open web standards and RSS-based curation.
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The Internet Feels Broken | Stephanie Vee
Steph Vee reflects on how the internet feels broken and why we should reclaim it through personal websites.
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The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
Shame it’s on Substack. New Public explores the revival of the handmade web pushing back against the corporate internet.
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Just Put It On Your Blog
Shellsharks urges us to stop overthinking and just post on our own blogs.
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Why you should get (back) into RSS curation.
Another take on rediscovering RSS as a way to take control of what you read online, curating a personal, intentional feed instead of relying on algorithm-driven platforms
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Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web
If the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so lonely?
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You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts
Sounds like a wonderful idea. Inb4 people invest their lives work into this platform and lose everything, lol
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Breaking Free from Social Media Silos
Luke discovers the indie web and discusses the struggle of being out of touch when it seems like most of society exists on facebook rather than the web.
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Warcraft 3: Rise of the Blood Elves – A Steam Deck Review
I definitely want to play this campaign after reading the post, not sure if I'd be able to play it on the Steam Deck though!
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Shittification of the Internet
Thoughts and commentary on how the internet is getting shitter and why 2000s were the best years of the internet.
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The Web is Fantastic Actually, Sightless Scribbles
Robert Kingett explores whether its popular to hate the Internet right now? But is that a fair assessment where your experience of the Internet is limited to five websites/apps and haven't taken the explore the often less travelled parts?
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FABLED.DAY — choosing a sobriquet
Clarity takes a look at what it takes to choose an online handle
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Enough With The Bullshit
Aren’t you tired of all the bullshit? Because BEEW is!
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The Web We've (Never) Lost
Doesn't it feel like the web is getting worse every day? Do you miss the days when Google wasn't a garbage factory, Twitter wasn't a cesspool of Nazis, and you weren't treated like a pair of eyeballs with a wallet? Don't worry, the web of yore is still alive and kicking – in fact, it's thriving. You just need to know where to look. Let's take a dive into the non-mainstream web, where people create blogs and websites for the sheer joy of it, algorithmic feeds are nowhere to be found – and you can join, too!
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Life without advertisements is a great life
You know what? Life without advertising IS a great life.
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My happy space in the web
This website is my happy space in the web.
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This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like
Elena Rossini takes a look at the quality independent media popping up across our beloved indie web
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Blogger How Pushy are You About Getting Paid?
How important is monetary compensation for your personal website(s)?
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You can just build a Steam Machine
Getting ready to do something similar with my own gaming desktop so this was a good read to help concrete my thought process.
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Out of the internet and into the page: books for teenage boys
What’s the state of teen reading in Aotearoa? And what are the book that might lure our boys out the wilds of the internet and back to the page?
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dealing with rage bait in the indie web
Ava discusses the concept of **rage bait** on the indie web. Bad actors amongst our spaces intentionly drawing out strong emotional reactions from others, hiding their true nature. What moderation options exist, especially when these messages of ill will exist on their own websites?
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I refuse to be a slave to The Algorithm - Coding with Jesse
I'm going to spend my time in places without a gatekeeper. I'll be writing on my own blog. I'll be scrolling through my RSS reader to read others' blog posts. I'll be listening to podcasts in my podcast player. I'll be reading books and listening to audio books. I'll be reading and posting and liking and boosting on Mastodon. I invite you to join me.
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A better web | niqwithq
All I really want is that people remember the intentions of the web that hit the mainstream some 30ish years ago
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Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
I’m rethinking on how I might better utilise my RSS feeds after reading this piece by Cory Doctorow. I’m following a small number of hand picked websites at the moment, but I feel like I can open up my world wider by subscribing to various OPML files that are available across our corner of the web. Will definitely help with new website discovery.
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Is the internet the only place we can truly be ourselves?
The complexities of self-expression on the web. Serena Smith reflects on their teenage experience of navigating various aesthetics online, contrasting it with the constraints faced in real life.
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Marginalia: A New Lens for the Internet
An interview with Viktor from Marginalia
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Time to Statham Punch
How long do I have to wait until I see Jason Statham punch someone?
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MACHETES DIPPED IN RUM
This is a super long read that goes into huge detail about Bone Thugs-N-Harmony all the way up to 2015.
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The Number Ones: Britney Spears’ “3”
Britney Spears has bangers for days but only three have made it to number one. What?!
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The Story Behind Lil Kim’s Iconic Louis Vuitton Logo-Print Portrait
The Story Behind Lil Kim’s Iconic Louis Vuitton Logo-Print Portrait
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“I Realise Now How Harshly I Was Judged”: Miley Cyrus On Finding Her Peace – And Making The Album Of The Summer
Miley Cyrus' latest interview with British Vogue. Delve into this fascinating article to gain insights into the multi-talented artist's life, thoughts, and creative journey. How does she embrace authenticity and challenge societal norms? She shares her unique perspective on fashion, music, and personal growth.
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The Story Of How ODB Recorded His Verse For Mariah Carey’s Remix Is Fantastic
I've been enjoying season 3 of Wu-Tang: An American Saga and was reminded of this article while watching episode 7, Shadowboxin. This article recounts the hilarious way ODB's verse came to be on the Fantasy remix by Mariah Carey.
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Miley's Whole Career Has Been Building to This Moment
I'm so happy that Miley is finally getting her flowers. How has Miley evolved as an artist over the years? How has she succeeded despite her personal struggles? Will Endless Summer Vacation be a hit?
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Smashmouth's White Magic
Zach dives into Smashmouth's hidden, mystical significance, particularly the references to hermetic alchemy in their music. It hilariously ends with a warning of the dangers of bands like Third Eye Blind, who use the occult arts to obfuscate and block spiritual clarity.
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Sonos / Spotify Vinyl Emulator
Experience the tactile nature of a vinyl music collection (but without actually owning any vinyl) through Sonos, Spotify and NFC tags. Find this and other hardware projects on Hackster.io.
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I Got The Internet Going Nutz: Kreayshawn and 10 Years of SOMETHIN' BOUT KREAY' - MGRM
This article reflects on the 10th anniversary of rapper Kreayshawn's debut album Somethin Bout Kreay and how it marked a significant moment in internet culture. Kreayshawn really had it hard. She blew up on the Internet before there was a means to monitise it. It dives into the troubles she faced with the virality and her eventual departure from the spotlight.
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I Made a Linguistics Professor Listen to a Blink-182 Song and Analyze the Accent
A linguistics professors analysis of the american pop punk accent. Great read.