Monday, May 25, 2020

feeds: linkblogs

Background: I’m writing some posts linking to feeds that I like.

Today’s theme: Blogs that curate interesting links.

Linkblogs were once a really common form, and if done lazily can be a formulaic waste of time, but there are a few people with a real knack for sifting out the good stuff who I find worth tracking. Three examples:

• Leah Neukirchen’s trivium is a low-volume, high-value roundup of mostly-technical links that nearly always contains something worth my time.
  • Feed URL: http://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/index.atom
• Pathologically Polymathic is a linkblog by Danny Yee, author of the consistently excellent Danny Yee’s Book Reviews. Math, art, lit, news, politics, transportation, science, etc.
  • Feed URL: http://danny.oz.au/blog/rss.xml
• Waxy.org is Andy Baio’s blog - there’re occasional longer pieces in the mix, but often just quick links. Andy Baio is one of the cool kids, and thus his tastes reflect cool-kid concerns that I don’t really share, but a lot of this stuff is good anyway.
  • Feed URL: https://waxy.org/feed

I do some linkblogging of my own. You can see stuff I’ve shared lately in the “linkdump” sidebar on the front page of this site, or subscribe to:

• My public Pinboard bookmarks
  • Feed URL: https://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/u:brennen/
• My shared posts from NewsBlur
  • Feed URL: https://brennen.newsblur.com/social/rss/98457/brennen

The Pinboard one in particular is strictly “stuff I want to remember”, not “stuff I think anyone else cares about”. It informs a lot of things I write here or work on elsewhere, and stands a fair chance of being deathly boring for readers who aren’t me.

tags: topics/feeds

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