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I'm not sure I agree with simonw's approach either. The goal of a link blog, that is meant to be useful to others, is to provide a highly curated collection of
by imtringued 2y ago
I'm not sure I agree with simonw's approach either. The goal of a link blog, that is meant to be useful to others, is to provide a highly curated collection of potentially difficult to find resources centering around a big theme or topic all in one place. It would be very similar to an "awesome list" but with personal notes and summaries of why you think the articles, books, papers, blog posts, you have linked are relevant to the overarching theme. The optimal blog structure would probably not even be a blog post per link, but rather a blog post per topic that gets updated as you find more relevant resources.
- simonw 2y agoI don't like that model. That's effectively an awesome list with some extra notes, and I've found surprisingly little value from awesome lists. The reason a link blog is valuable is that it emphasizes what is NEW in a space - maybe not new to the internet as a whole, but new to the explorations of the person running the blog. It's not "useful links about SQLite", it's "my personal exploration of the SQLite database over time". That's why I like tags so much. Here's that page for SQLite, going all the way back to when I first learned about it 21 years ago: https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite/ I have over 5,000 more pages like that, each is effectively a miniature link blog in its own right. Tag pages become an important first class artifact of the blog itself. The date is also important for links because links rot - and information falls out of date. Knowing that I found a resource valuable in 2019 is important context!