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What are some good blogs/sites that are like kottke.org?

What are some good blogs/sites that are like kottke.org? Way back in 2008 this question was posted to Ask MeFi. I'm basically asking the same question again now -- 12 years later. Bottom-line: What are...

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Professional blog writing & how not to vomit out borrowed ideas?

How can I write blog posts about a business topic (leadership) using popular business publications without just recycling their ideas? I just picked up some contract work to do leadership research and...

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Putting snippets of web pages into blogger, the easy way

So there used to be a simple bookmarklet for Blogger. You could highlight text on a web page, hit the bookmarklet, and the linked text would show up in a fresh blog entry. I realize I am the last...

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I would like some new blogs about food, clothes and the past

I like to read blogs. I like to sit down and just....read them, borne back ceaselessly into the past by the previous posts button. Because we are living in a nightmarish dystopia, I cannot read about...

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where are my blog posts in my file server?

This year, I finally bit the bullet and committed to having my own website again, and this time I'm paying for my own hosting. My skill level however is...

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Veggie food/recipe websites with an RSS feed

I'm looking for daily/weekly inspiration for vegetarian meals to cook, aimed at any level of cook. I am getting deeply bored of seeing endless variations of burritos, burrito bowls, buddha bowls,...

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feed me art

I'm looking for blogs, newsletters, tumblrs, or similar feeds of visual art from various artists, updated regularly. Any medium, or more than one, is fine: photography, digital and traditional...

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Recommend some blogs please like it's 2007

I miss reading personal blogs. Specifically ones by people living in situations that are very remote, from my perspective, and talk about their daily lives. What is out there, that's updated in the...

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First person blog of a homeless woman

This is a long-shot, but I have a distinct memory from perhaps 15 years ago of reading a blog series written by a (very likely profoundly mentally ill) person who was living in a makeshift...

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Wordpress export snafu, how to proceed?

Attempting to fiddle with and migrate my WordPress install to a new host but same domain name has gone completely pear-shaped. Please hope me. I was hosting wordpress on newsite.cc/wp-admin but the...

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Feminist Discussion Spaces

Where do you go to talk about feminism in 2022? I'm bummed about the disappearance of the feminist blogosphere, specifically the discussion in the comment sections. (Same with the disappearance of...

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Whatever happened to FTP

I grew up using CMSes like GreyMatter and Movable Type where you just had to change a couple of settings, upload the install files to your server via FTP, maybe mess with the cPanel, and off you go. A...

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Seeking good podcasts/blogs/Youtubers to review genre films and books

I have one friend who makes really good, low-budget fantasy and sci-fi movies, and he really needs more publicity. I have another friend who self-publishes good magic realism-style fantasy books, and...

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Which publishing platform would syndicate to Mastodon?

I have a site where I often update the content - sometimes adding a new page/entry, but more often updating an existing entry. Right now everything is done by hand: a text editor and an FTP client....

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Healthier options to distract my brain

In an effort to get away news media, I've spent the last few years filling my newsfeed with sports - mainly NFL blogs, Twitter, podcasts, etc. Now that's becoming toxic for me and I need new, healthier...

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Find the original blog of Mark O'Brien, poet and polio survivor

I'm trying to locate a blog I read years ago written by Mark O'Brien. He wrote a famous essay on seeing a sex surrogate as a disabled man who used an iron lung. His essay later got turned into a movie,...

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Completionist internet projects

What are your favorite blogs or social media accounts based on documenting the process of doing everything on a list? For example, cooking every recipe in a cookbook, Julie and Julia-style, or...

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Advice for starting a blog in 2023 (are blogs still a thing?)

I want to embark on a self improvement journey (specifically in terms of getting my finances in order and learning to be better with money) and the idea of blogging about my progress is appealing to...

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Article about google... deleted from google

I'm looking for a blog post/medium/substack sort of piece from the late 2010s about the decline in google search quality, but it seems to have been completely nuked off the face of the internet. I...

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Really good book blogs?

Are there blogs like Smart Bitches Trashy Books, but for other genres? I find their reviews pretty reliable (I don't always agree with their opinions, but feel that they represent what to expect pretty...

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Looking for a blogging theme like kottke

I really like the simplicity of Kottke and TheMarginalia and Waxy— a blog with a front page that contains all (or most) of the content of each post, with links embedded to other parts of the web....

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Looking for more writers like Matt Levine

Does anyone know commentators with a similar tone, approach, style etc. to Bloomberg’s Matt Levine? Not looking for additional folks covering his topic area, but rather writers who have a similar vibe...

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Trying to remember blog from "back in the day."

This was a blog by a guy who I remember for several different things. 1) he did "how much is in the tube" - style experiments, 2) he made elaborate Halloween costumes that he used to compete and often...

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Recommend me some history (and history adjacent) blogs, old or new

In times of trouble and stress, blogs are the ideal format for me. I have been reading ACOUP and Ada Palmer's Ex Urbe. I also enjoy blogs focusing on literature and material culture (food, clothing,...

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I'm related to my lawn, and not by marriage

Help me find an old blog post I vaguely recall reading (maybe 10-15ish years ago), which included a quote that went something like 'I'm related to my lawn, and not by marriage'. I think it was...

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