Bringing Back the Blogroll

Woman reading content on her smartphone.

Starting today you’ll notice a change in my website layout; I’ve brought back the blogroll.

If you’re not familiar, a blogroll is a collection of links to other sites and blogs a blogger finds interesting, reads regularly, and wants to share with their readers.

Blogrolls were a standard feature on blogs years ago. But fell out of favor until recently.

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First Looks at Day One for Journaling

Screenshot of Introducing Day One on the Web blog post announcement.

I’m always been interested in different platforms for publishing my writing on the web.

But it can be hard to find a platform that lets you focus on your writing, without getting overwhelmed with features, configuration, etc.

Which is what first led me to create an account on Posterous in 2010, a simple blogging platform which shut down in 2013 (after Twitter bought it).

What I loved about Posterous was its quick setup (little configuration) and the many ways I could publish a post, including sending an email with text, photos, videos, etc.

In recent years, I took a look at Day One, one of the most popular platforms for private journals.

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