Blogroll
In the ’90s there were blogrolls; it’s time we brought them back
As Eli Motyca writing for The Debrief puts it, “For some in their 30s and 40s [the IndieWeb is] a recreation of an Internet experience they encountered as teenagers traversing bulletin boards and peeking into small, tightly knit online communities.” A big part of this experience were blogrolls where you would, for no reason other than the fun of it, curate a list of links to other websites that you found interesting.
I’m in the younger subset of this group but definitely a part of it. (Runescape is more than just a word to me and I remember Club Penguin.) Anyway, this is my blogroll in alphabetical order. Links are usually to specific pages I found interesting but most of these websites are splendid through and through. The list is short now but it’ll grow.
- 512 pixels
- Alastair Johnston
- Austin Kleon
- Bryce Wray
- Carl Barenburg
- Chris McLeod
- Cory Dransfeldt
- Henrique Dias
- Hidde de Vries
- Jan Willem
- Jasco
- Jim Nielsen
- Kev Quirk
- Kimberly Hirsh
- Lars–Christian
- Manuel Moreale
- Mario Hamann
- Matt Stein
- Matthias Ott
- Melon King
- Nikita Karamov
- P.J. Onori
- Rodrigo Ghedin
- Steve Ledlow
Now these are just the sites I frequent. But if you want to discover several more such independent websites, head to Blogroll.org, which, going by the “Ayup”, might even be right here in my backyard in Yorkshire. Just a wild guess.