Weekend Reading – Rediscovering Blogging Edition

Weekend Reading – Rediscovering Blogging Edition
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/08/10

This short article summarizes four posts from other writers describing how social media (and Facebook in particular) has failed to replicate the idea of the feed as "sustenance" that "nourished critical minds." Here they are:

• Dan Cohen on going Back to The Blog and Going Indie on Social Media
• Mark Sample with Facebook Killed the Feed
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick with Connections along with Feeds and Gardens
• Chris Aldrich responding to Kathleen
• And Mike Caulfield's 2015 post The Garden and The Stream.

These writers, and a number of others, are all part of a new wave of indieweb proponents, and I make sure to follow them and keep up on their work. More...