keith is
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You should blog

feature writing blogging

I’m going into 2024 wanting to write more. Link to more of my favorite parts of
the internet.
Become a curator again.

Some advice if you’re starting a blog for the first time (or it’s been awhile):

  1. Share your thoughts on whatever. You’re a blogger, not an opinion columnist
    in the washington post.
  2. Change your mind! Write about why you changed your mind!
  3. Write however you want. Run-on sentences. Weird grammar. Write in limericks,
    sonnets, or haikus – defy the grammar cops.

Don’t know where to get started? Don’t have the ability to write your own blog
software (don’t do it!) or self host wordpress? Here are some options to get
started today, including a few options with free plans:

  • write.as: Has a free version (that includes all of the
    write.as branding). For $6/m you can use a personal domain and get access to
    lots of great functionality.
  • omg.lol: This is a hard one to explain, you get a lot
    more than just a blog. You get a link-tree esque page, a blog, and an account
    on their mastodon instance. It’s $20 a year (no monthly plan). They’ve also
    got an IRC server as a perk??? The social aspect seems to be the seller, tbh.
  • micro.blog $5/m, with cross posting to all of the
    social networks. I’ve seen people use it more for microblogging
    (twitter-esque) updates, or curating links, but I think you can use it for
    long form.
  • NEOCITIES: Obviously I’m a sucker for a nostalgia
    play. I look at the top sites pretty often to see things like
    web pets still being made.
  • Ghost: $11/m for a very powerful open source platform. I
    remember when Ghost launched 1.0, there was a noticeable shift in the number
    of non-WP blogs running on the internet. It’s since matured and has a large
    plugin/theme ecosystem.
  • Pika: Free! Very, very simple, no themes, but you get a
    page and can write on it.
  • Glitch: A shameless plug for 🎏
    Glitch, but you can start an eleventy blog for free on Glitch, and it gets
    built and deployed as a static site.
    You can add a custom domain if you’ve got one.
    The perfect middle ground of building your own, and letting some one else take
    care of the deployments.

If you do end up starting a blog, or picking up something you left off 7 years
ago - send me the URL so I can subscribe 💖