Simon's approach to running a link blog
The way I use my link blog has evolved substantially in the eight months since then. I’m going to describe the informal set of guidelines I’ve set myself for how I link blog, in the hope that it might encourage other people to give this a try themselves.
Enjoyable write-up on Simon's guidelines and principles for running a link blog.
I started my own "link blog" a year back. My main ambition was — and remains to this day — to share interesting content from around the web. Simon writes:
Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.
The thing I'm doing here doesn't feel "high value" in isolation. To my knowledge, only a few people ever notice the links I share. But I agree with Simon in that the aggregate of people sharing interesting links is immensely valuable: It is human curation in its most pure and valuable form. It is the antidote to algorithmic malaise, AI generated slop and rage farming bite sized social media virality and whatever else we're consuming too much of these days.
In that sense, link blogging is, without a doubt, high value. Heck, it's invaluable.