Tech-inzichten door Niek de Greef. Reflecties op technologie, software development en de impact van digitale innovaties op cultuur en maatschappij.
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 list of 2020-happy-things from the hugely creative Austin Kleon can keep me busy for weeks.
His newsletter is great.
One of the blogs I read regularly is the one by Scott Young. Scott got some fame by arranging his university degree online for a few thousand dollars. This was unheard of, especially in the US, where the costs for a college degree have gone totally out of hand.
Scott has been writing his blog for a very long time now and keeps coming up with interesting thoughts on learning and other things.
Scott also wrote the book Ultralearning about effective learning.
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/
