This two-way comment system that @manton has setup with Bluesky is pretty cool to see in action. I replied to a comment left via a Bluesky authentication on my blog and it showed up as a post on Bluesky a few moments later. Pretty cool! 👏
Blogging
Just tried out the new photo collections feature on micro.blog and it is pretty great. I created a page of coffee photos. ☕️
This is a fun and new way to index into the photos that I have posted. I like it.
I love to see new blogs being created. In the spirit of Christmas, I’m gifting five 1-year subscriptions to micro.blog for readers of the Weekly Thing (announced in WT304). These folks can then get their blogs going and in January I’m going to share links and introduce each of them. Fun! 🤩🎁🎄
I created a Twin Cities IndieWeb list on BlogFlock. Let me know if you have sites that should be added! I feel a desire to get an IndieWeb meetup going in the Twin Cities.
People & Blogs List on BlogFlock
I ran across BlogFlock, a new service by Raphael Kabo that takes a social approach to RSS feeds, and decided to give it a look. BlogFlock is entirely built on open RSS feeds and allows users to create lists of RSS feeds that others can then follow. Think of it as a way to build a …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: People & Blogs List on BlogFlockStories are to people
as programs are to computers.
Weekly Thing Supporting Memberships
I have launched a Supporting Membership offering for the Weekly Thing. I previewed it in Weekly Thing 299 and shared it on the Weekly Thing Forum. So what is this Supporting Membership all about? What does it get you? Nothing. 😊 Well, that isn’t true. It will make you feel great. …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Weekly Thing Supporting MembershipsI’m hosting the IndieWeb Carnival in April 2025 and I’m getting pretty excited about it. Starting to think through themes and such. 🤩
Thoughts after writing 300 newsletters
On November 9th I sent the 300th issue of the Weekly Thing. I sent the very 1st issue on May 13, 2017. It took 7 years 5 months 3 weeks and 6 days to get to 300. So, what have I learned from sending 300 newsletters? What insights have I gleaned? In no particular order… Structure …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Thoughts after writing 300 newslettersYou can find me on the web.
So much chatter lately on leaving social platform this to go to social platform that.
The new thing.
The better thing?
What is everyone chasing?
I’ll be right here on the web.
Same place I was before.
Same place I’ll be in the future.