The best way to enjoy the Internet are curators. These help avoid ad-driven search engines and social media companies, and provide a diverging instead of a converging view at what’s out there.
Boooooom is such a curator, with a focus on art, and has published its 24 favorite Instagram curators. Curators curated – curators unite!.
In a previous post, I wrote about how shared curation lets us get the best of the Internet while skipping the tech giant’s ad-driven content feed.
Here’s a great addition to that thought: a data-driven newsletter of links in other newsletters: pudding.cool/projects/newsletter/
Craig Mod has a beautiful blog at craigmod.com. Craig is what I would call a generally very interesting person. He writes about his travels – he walks a lot, about photography. His blog inspired me to start writing longer form blog posts again.
Craig manages a few very interesting newsletters. I can recommend all three.
Mark Frauenfelder is my favorite inspiring nerd (well meant) and I find him greatly inspiring. Here he talks about how making mistakes accelerates learning.
Boing Boing is a site he founded, The Magnet is a great newsletter of his, Recommendo is another great site.
Writer Cory Doctorow is blogging for 20 years. Here’s his extensive process. Pfew – respect!
This response from Nick Cave to a question form a reader of his blog is so beautiful.
The past couple of years we have heard that a blog was something of 2000’s. The rise of Youtube and more recently, the popularity of podcasts, were supposedly make blogs a thing of the past.
But the debatable recommendation and influencing practices of Youtube, and other advertisement-backed social media drive people away from these platforms. At the same time there is a increasing number of people being driven away from tradiditional media, finding the “breaking news” tactics distracting and misguiding.
As a replacement for these, the blog seems on it’s way back, as is the newsletter (via email!) informing the readers of blog updates. Blogs are not found through google searches or Facebook recommendations, but through recommendations by real people. Thus providing a source of manually curated web content by like-minded people.
One of these treasures I found today is Nick Cave’s Red Hand Files blog.
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
You probably know Ed Ruscha’s Sunset project, in which he photography all the houses along Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. He published this project in the book simply called Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
Getty has created a beautiful website – a piece of art on itself – that allows you to explore the project.
https://12sunsets.getty.edu/map/narrative?d=0.42006&mode=no-map
Record density wisdom/word ratio in Seth Godin’s free ebook Graceful.
Download from Seth’s site here.
