The Leica Q — Craig Mod
Set aside some time: Craig is reviewing a camera again (and you remember how epic that was last time).
A beautiful post by Brendan, comparing the ease of publishing on the web to the original Flip camera:
Right now there’s a real renaissance of people getting back to blogging on their own sites again. If you’ve been putting it off, think about the beauty and simplicity of that red button, press it, and try and help make the web the place it was always meant to be.
Set aside some time: Craig is reviewing a camera again (and you remember how epic that was last time).
Start a blog. Start one because the practice of writing at length, for an audience you respect, about things that matter to you, is itself valuable. Start one because owning your own platform is a form of independence that becomes more important as centralized platforms become less trustworthy. Start one because the format shapes the thought, and this format is good for thinking.
See, I’ve always compared that building pressure of need-to-blog to being constipated (which makes the resultant blog post like having a very satisfying bowel movement), but maybe Brad’s analogy is better. Maybe.
Ah, the circle of life!
This is a great idea that I’m going to file away for later:
I like the idea of redirecting
/nowto the latest post tagged asnowso one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.
A collection of hyperlinks to collections of hyperlinks.
A selection of blog posts from the past year.
Marginalia and annotations on the web.
Cross-posting to wherever is flavour of the month.
A handpicked selection of blog posts.