Elsewhere
Remember when we all had blogs and comment sections? That was nice. But as with so many other cool things, capitalism ruined it.
But there is Blogroll.org, which is just full of blogs, waiting to be read.
Personal Blogs
SFF Blogs
- Camestros Felapton
- Cora Buhlert
- The Fly(er) on the Wall
- Hugo Book CLub Blog
- Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together
- Novel Gazing Redux
- Shattersnipe: Malcontent and Rainbows
- Theodora Goss’s Blog
- Will Tell Stories for Food
Technical Blogs
- Astrid.tech
- Cogito, Ergo Sumana
- Jon Udell - Strategies for Internet citizens
- Maggie Appleton
- Miriam Eric Suzanne
- Synesthesia
Topical Blogs
- Ask a Manager - advice column about work
- Captain Awkward - advice column about life
- McMansion Hell - terrible home architecture
- The Cramped - analog journaling and links
- mnmlscholar - an academic writes about fountain pens, notebooks, and other things
- Web3 is Going Just Great - want to watch crypto meltdown in real time?
- Analog Office - office toys and occasional advice
Newsletters
- The Full Lid Written by Alasdair Stuart and edited by Marguerite Kenner, this is a weekly cornucopia of goodness.
- Amal Content Come for the puns, stay for Amal El-Mohtar’s thoughtful and heartfelt posts.
- The Rest is Commentary Currently a placeholder, but as it’s Hanne Blank Boyd’s placeholder, I’m expecting great things here.
- Throw Another Bear in the Canoe Elizabeth Bear’s newsletter. Regular updates and also mirrored on her Patreon. Mix of paid and free posts. A paid subscription gets you access to a Discord server.
- The Lynchline Scott Lynch’s newsletter. Infrequent posts, but they’re always super extra good.
- The Third Place While Max Gladstone doesn’t post more than once or twice a month, it’s absolutely worth your while to subscribe. All essays are free to read, but commenting requires a token subscription.
- Today in Tabs Most content is free, the paid version gets you access to the Friday open posts and a Discord server which is high traffic but full of good peeps.