Blogroll

Updated 24 November 2023

I maintain this page manually so I don’t update it often — also that probably means I’ve missed some feeds 🤷‍♀️

Personal websites | Personal blogs | Topical blogs and newsletters | Keep exploring

Websites

RSS feeds for this website

My other websites

People I know

From offline

IndieWeb folks

Some of these are blogs as well as websites, but I’ve only included them here. My apologies if I’ve overlooked someone!

Personal blogs

Where I draw the line of personal versus topical blog can be a little hard to define, so some things on here may be more of a personal blog than not. And maybe some topical blogs and newsletters might belong here 🤷‍♀️

I also follow a bunch of people through micro.blog instead of RSS and it is too much work to add them all here 😅

Topical blogs and newsletters

Tip: Substack and Buttondown newsletters have an RSS feed you can subscribe to if you prefer that to email. Marked *

I’ve bolded some of my favorites. Some of these seem to be inactive but I haven’t removed them in case they come back.

Art & design

Blogs

Newsletters

Webcomics

  • False Knees (Joshua Barkman) – comic strips with goofy birds
  • webcomic name (Alex Norris) – “oh no” – you’ve seen these
  • Poorly Drawn Lines (Reza Farazmand) – comic strips with returning animal characters

Lifestyle & culture

Blogs

Newsletters

Creative work & marketing

Blogs

Newsletters

  • Roden (Craig Mod) – walking, photography, travel, writing
  • The Imperfectionist (Oliver Burkeman) – work, process, anti-productivity
  • Wandering Aimfully (Caroline and Jason Zook) – fun, sustainable, honest marketing for small businesses
  • Courtney’s Weekly Tea (Courtney Milan) – tea, romance books, writing – really enjoy her mini meditations

Writing & publishing

Blogs

Newsletters

Finances

Blogs

Miscellaneous

Blogs

Newsletters

Keep exploring

More interesting people

Cool Artists – a long list of personal websites of artists and artisans

Interesting People – personal websites of interesting people from a range of backgrounds

More interesting websites

Neat websites – a random collection of websites I’ve found useful and webpages for interesting organizations

Small businesses – support indie creators & small businesses ✊

More options for discovery

12 replies on “Blogroll”

I’m a sci-fi writer,  graphic designer and urbanist in the Seattle suburbs. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area but have lived in Washington since 2008. On this site, I track what I read and watch, write commentary on things that interest me, and collect reference information. Lately I’m pondering these Big Questions.…

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Lately I feel like my RSS feeds and newsletter subscriptions are a bit off, like I’m not getting enough variety. I notice the same articles be recommended time and again. I’ve been taking that as an indication that I really need to read that article, but maybe it’s that I’m reading within the same spheres. Ironic since I made an effort to cast a broader net with what I’m reading earlier this year. Funnily enough I did often find new things on Twitter, when I let myself use it, because I was following a ton of artists and writers – I wish they all had blogs or newsletters I could follow instead!

Liked How to Weave the Artisan Web by John Scalzi (whatever.scalzi.com)

1. Create/reactivate your own site, owned by you, to hold your own work.
2. When you create that site, write or otherwise present work on your site at least once a week, every week.
3. Regularly visit the sites of other creators to read/see/experience the work they present there.
4. Promote/link the work of others, on your own site and also on your other social media channels where you have followers.

I have too many pages to fit in my nav! Here’s a sitemap of all the pages on this website. Blog Mind Garden Index Links to blog about Big Questions Big Questions Balanced Lifestyle Effective Creative Processes Writing Fiction Thinking Better Information Diet Future of the Internet Resisting Fascism Building Community Transforming Capitalism Collections Cool…

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I am a huge fan of RSS and have never stopped using it to follow blogs and webcomics. But lately as I’ve read lots of people talking about timelines, a question has been niggling at me: what does make an RSS feed* feel better to use than “the timeline” of social media? They are both streams of information, but I prefer RSS.

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I much prefer following people to publications, and curating for myself what’s interesting out of what those people have curated for themselves. There’s a good bit of noise, but there’s also a lot of serendipity — neat things I would never have encountered on my own, that I wouldn’t have thought to investigate.

Rian van der Merwe says:
December 3, 2023 at 6:57 am

[…] Tracy also updated her blog roll (remember those!?) and I am definitely going to add one here as […]