Stephen Downes

Pretty good commentary on blogging. First there's this: "Everything starts with awareness. So be noisy about the precise things that I'm interested in, and see what happens. That means product design but also means nonsense about weird history or whatever." Then there's this: "blogging has become small-p political again. Slowly, slowly, the web was taken over by platforms. Your feeling of success is based on your platform's algorithm... Writing a blog on your own site is a way to escape all of that." Via Ben Werdmuller, who comments, "sure, blogging might never be mainstream. But it can also be leading edge."