Blog-writing links

Bix Frankonis: Blogs, Gardens, And Thinking Aloud In Public
Sara Jaksa: How do I write my blog posts
Tracy Durnell: How I approach crafting a blog post
Sara Jaksa: Some musings on how to write more

Tracy Durnell: Recursive human thought – “How much will replacing the thinking work of writing with generating content dull and slow progression of ideas?“

Will Larsen: Solving the Engineering Crisis (also a talk on Youtube). “In this talk, I hope to pull those ideas together, into a unified theory of Engineering strategy, with a particular emphasis on how you can drive strategy even if you’re not the company’s CTO.”

Patrick Newman: Engineering management checklist – looks like a good list..

Chuck Grimmett has written about digital gardens, and also recently wrote about the desire to have feeds for such sites. Andrew Shell has done some work in this area, creating tools for generating feeds for Federated Wiki sites. Any other garden/wiki tools out there for this use case?

More on POSSE – Scott Hanson posted that he is writing posts on Micro.blog, which sends them to Mastodon and Bluesky, then uses IFTTT to read his RSS feed and post to Twitter. A good example of “getting started” doing POSSE (re: end of Tantek Celik post on this topic)!

Dave Winer mentioned on Sunday that he is “feeling an itch” to create a chat program that produces a RSS feed as the result. Colin Walker mentioned that MyStatusTool seemed to fit the bill, and I agree! I wrote a post back in June 2023 on the topic of MyStatusTool for groups. Can someone let Dave Winer know about it? Thanks!

Pluralistic/Cory Doctorow: A media/literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza

The Liberal with Tom Watson: A Time for Choosing – Tom Watson says anti-semitism was driving a lot of the news and views in the first week after the start of the Israel – Hamas war.

ProPublica: Local Newspapers Are Vanishing. How Should We Remember Them? As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality. (My local newspaper has shrunk its overall coverage, now combining content from another local paper).