From the depths of the Daring Fireball archives:
New feature at Daring Fireball: the Linked List, a daily list of interesting links and brief commentary on DF-related topics, updated frequently but not frenetically. Call it a “link log”, or “linkblog”, or just “a good way to dick around on the Internet for a few minutes a day”.
I’ve been following Daring Fireball (by John Gruber) since 2008. I remember the days (before I learned how to use RSS) when I would repeatedly refresh the home page as I went about my day at college. In many ways, Daring Fireball is one of the (if not the) reasons I became interested in writing software for Apple platforms.
From Simon Willison’s Weblog:
I started running a basic link blog on this domain back in November 2003—publishing links (which I called “blogmarks”) with a title, URL, short snippet of commentary and a “via” link where appropriate.
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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.
Willison goes into great detail about his guidelines. My guidelines are basically:
- Something I found interesting
- Something I want to remember
- Something I want to share
Willison closes with:
Sharing interesting links with commentary is a low effort, high value way to contribute to internet life at large.
Willison’s “What to blog about” is also a must read.
Other pioneers in this space:
- Dave Winer (Scripting News, 1994)
- Jason Kottke (kottke.org, 1998)