{"id":4170,"date":"2022-12-28T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2022-12-28T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:38:08","slug":"4170","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2022\/12\/28\/4170\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I have felt stuck about writing here for a while, and there has been a death in my family that I will need to write more about when the words come to me. But right now I just want to talk more about blogs. One of the most exciting things that has come to my awareness recently is Phil Gyford’s ooh.directory<\/a> of blogs and its RSS feed of newly added URLs<\/a>. I don’t know if Mr. Gyford’s manual review and curation of these things is sustainable in the indefinite, but what a great idea! It seems to me like social media and SEO supremacy have rendered personal blog discoverability broken, but one need not fix the entire internet to build a little free library in one’s front yard.<\/p>\n

By way of that directory, I have found a new source of dailyish poems<\/a>, Janette Haruguchi’s ongoing explication of sashiko stitching<\/a>, Bartosz Ciechanowski’s extraordinary interactive physics lessons<\/a>, Jani Patokallio’s quest to find food from every Chinese province, special administrative region and contested island—in Singapore<\/a>, and Bloom, a journal devoted to authors whose first major work was published when they were age 40 or older<\/a>. And Eric Idle’s book reviews!<\/a> A fan blog that’s just for Peanuts!<\/a> Librarians dunking on books that need to go!<\/a> And the directory is still so new. I suspect there are many more entries to come after the holidays.<\/p>\n

Lucy linked, last month, to Dave Rupert’s suggestion to be a carpenter this time<\/a>, and I’ve been turning it over in my mind ever since. I don’t know any real carpentry, though I’d be glad to have the space and time to learn. But the tools I do know can still make good things at the scale of individual humans, and that’s delightful to see, after a long time when I didn’t know where to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have felt stuck about writing here for a while, and there has been a death in my family that I will need to write more about when the words come to me. But right now I just want to talk more about blogs. One of the most exciting things that has come to my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,146,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discoveries","category-lucy-bellwood","category-metablogging","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}