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sourceWelcome to volume twenty of Scrolls, a newsletter for sharing cool stuff from the IndieWeb, Fediverse & Cybersecurity realms. In this quieter week, I ask, “why do we blog?”
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Why do we blog? What keeps us online? How do we find balance in it all? I suppose… for me it’s many things. I enjoy sharing what I find, what I learn and what I enjoy with others. Second, I find blogging helps me process, helps me remember, helps me decompress, helps me celebrate, and helps me further understand the variety of things I encounter throughout any given day/week. In this journey, I have also (somewhat surprisingly) found something I did not originally expect—community. So though I don’t consider a lot of what I write and share here particularly “important”, I do take the process of blogging, and site-owning in general, pretty seriously. And ya know what? I think you too can find the magic here.
Enough with the why. Let’s talk about what we can do-with or add to-our sites this week. You don’t need anything fancy, an upgrade as simple as adding an email address to your RSS feed would make for an excellent improvement to your site! Let’s see what else… You could try a new blogging framework, learn about and then deploy some new CSS, add some Slash Pages, or collect and share some good links (y’know, like Fyr is doing!). If nothing else, you could simply write more.
A few final things to share in this week’s somewhat-teeny Scroll…
- Bonfire looks to be a promising place for future long-form content.
- RSSRSSRSS can help combine RSS feeds.
- Channel.org is here to help you take ownership of your presence, content and communities on the web.
Thanks for reading Scrolls. Stay cool!
