It's even worse than it appears..
Sunday June 18, 2023; 12:57 PM EDT
The old weblogs.com feeling#
  • One of the nice things about FeedLand is we can all look at each other's feed lists to get ideas about what to subscribe to.#
  • Yesterday I was playing with ideas, looking at a bunch of different people's collections, and I saw in John Naughton's feed list a reminder of a centerpiece of the early blogging world, weblogs.com. You could quickly see which blogs had updated recently so you knew there was a reason to go there. It was the beginning of what eventually became Twitter, Google Reader, Facebook, etc.#
  • Over time as more blogs came online, it got diluted, we had to come up with something better and luckily RSS came along, and without much thought we switched over to that and weblogs.com fell into disuse. #
  • Here's an archive.org snapshot and screen shot of weblogs.com from November 2002. #
  • Looking at Naughton's list I had the old weblogs.com feeling! These are all people I'm interested in, but I don't have them in their own category anywhere, so I never see it like that.#
  • With a bit of coordination it would be pretty cool to have a FeedLand page that tracked a bunch more Old School bloggers who are still blogging, or give ones who aren't a reason to restart. #
  • Partial screen shot of Naughton's list shortly after this item was posted.#

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